Healthcare
Home Health Aides
Monitor the health status of an individual with disabilities or illness, and address their health-related needs, such as changing bandages, dressing wounds, or administering medication. Work is performed under the direction of offsite or intermittent onsite licensed nursing staff. Provide assistance with routine healthcare tasks or activities of daily living, such as feeding, bathing, toileting, or ambulation. May also help with tasks such as preparing meals, doing light housekeeping, and doing laundry depending on the patient's abilities.
Median salary
$34,900
Typical range
$26k – $44k
Job outlook
+17% (much faster than average)
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Education
Typical entry: No degree required
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Junior Home Health Aides
Entry / Junior
$25,600
~2 yrs to advance
Home Health Aides
Established
$34,900
~3 yrs to advance
Senior Home Health Aides
Senior
$39,545
Key skills
A typical day
- •Maintain records of patient care, condition, progress, or problems to report and discuss observations with supervisor or case manager.
- •Provide patients with help moving in and out of beds, baths, wheelchairs, or automobiles and with dressing and grooming.
- •Bathe patients.
- •Care for patients by changing bed linens, washing and ironing laundry, cleaning, or assisting with their personal care.
- •Entertain, converse with, or read aloud to patients to keep them mentally healthy and alert.
Fields of study
Any field
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- Harvard University4% admit · $119,000 grad pay
- University of Michigan18% admit · $87,000 grad pay
- Duke University6% admit · $105,000 grad pay
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill19% admit · $73,000 grad pay
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