Dual Certification: Certified Home Health Aide and Certified Nursing Assistant
Home care offers a great alternative to Nursing Assistants who want more freedom as well as the opportunity to get to know those they are caring for on a more personal level. Home care is exactly that, offering basic assistance to one patient at a time who needs. Home-care provides the patient with privacy and comfort in their own home. Nursing Assistants will be performing many of the same tasks including feeding, bathing, and dressing the patients.
Most Nursing Assistants are interested in working for a home-care agency to seek a job with a agency. These agencies contract with the patient or their family to offer them services to be able to remain in their home rather than an assisted living facility. However, Nursing Assistants need to be aware home-care agencies generally offer additional services that they will be required to perform including assistance with paying bills, running errands, picking up medications, and taking the patient to scheduled appointments. In addition, there may be cooking and light housekeeping involved.
Many Nursing Assistants love home-care because it allows them to develop a schedule that works for them and they get to know their patients. Home-care generally allows you to make your own schedule. It will be reviewed by your supervisor as well as checked with the patients. Every reasonable effort is made to accommodate everyone involved. It is very likely you can customize the schedule around holidays and other events, giving you those days off.
Getting to know your patients in home-care is a perk. Nursing Assistants usually don’t often get to really talk in a medical facility. You sometimes can if you work in a long term care facility, but even then time is often limited and Nursing Assistants have to run to complete the workload they are given. Getting to know the patients in home-care can make the job more enjoyable.
Most Nursing Assistants are interested in working for a home-care agency to seek a job with a agency. These agencies contract with the patient or their family to offer them services to be able to remain in their home rather than an assisted living facility. However, Nursing Assistants need to be aware home-care agencies generally offer additional services that they will be required to perform including assistance with paying bills, running errands, picking up medications, and taking the patient to scheduled appointments. In addition, there may be cooking and light housekeeping involved.
Many Nursing Assistants love home-care because it allows them to develop a schedule that works for them and they get to know their patients. Home-care generally allows you to make your own schedule. It will be reviewed by your supervisor as well as checked with the patients. Every reasonable effort is made to accommodate everyone involved. It is very likely you can customize the schedule around holidays and other events, giving you those days off.
Getting to know your patients in home-care is a perk. Nursing Assistants usually don’t often get to really talk in a medical facility. You sometimes can if you work in a long term care facility, but even then time is often limited and Nursing Assistants have to run to complete the workload they are given. Getting to know the patients in home-care can make the job more enjoyable.