Home Health Aide

Home Health Aide

Duties and Responsibilities : Home care assistants are expected to make their patients' lives easier and more comfortable. Their duties may include transporting patients to doctor's appointments, making beds, doing laundry, preparing meals, giving patients their medications, or running errands. They may change the patient's bandages, check vital signs, or simply apply lotion to dry skin areas. Some light cleaning may also be part of the job of a home care assistant, even if only to maintain sanitary conditions in the home environment.

Patients may need help bathing themselves, and it will be up to assistants to get them into the bath or shower. Assistants may also need to help patients get to and from the toilet, and sometimes it is necessary to change a patient's adult diaper if he or she is bed-bound. It is extremely important that the patient be allowed to maintain his or her dignity during these times.

For recreation, assistants can play card games or board games with patients, because it is a way of keeping them mentally active and alert. Crossword puzzles or arts and crafts are equally helpful activities because they can absorb the patient's attention or liven up the day. Even sitting with patients in the backyard or on the front porch for a couple of hours can be beneficial. The fresh air and sunshine can do wonders for the patients' outlook and well-being.

Salary: $20,100 for personal care aides

Education: None mandatory; certificate programs available and on-the-job training is typical ( Certification is required in a few states).

Reflection: I don't think i would enjoy this job because i enjoy making other feel good and happy. I would not mind at all helping care for the elderly. I think its a really nice thing to do even if your not getting paid. I enjoy livening up other peoples days.

Stident Success Statement

Student Success Statement

"Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all."

-Benjamin Franklin

Student Reflection: I think that what Benjamin Franklin is saying is that strength and riches can not be used to there full potential if you do not have a good heart.

Little Myles

Little Miles

i  Little MlLittle Miles is an 8 year old boy who one morning before lunch with his family found 20 dollars in the parking lot of a Crackle Barrel.  He had planned on spending the money on a new video game but soon changed his mind. He wrote a note to a soldier at the restaurant saying he was going to pay for his and his family meal with the 20 dollars he found in the parking lot. Miles said that he paid for the soldier’s meal because the solider reminded him of his father who died in Iraq. Miles dad was also a soldier.

Tanna and Christian

Tanna and Christian

Tonna and Christian have a remarkable story that reveals compassion. Tonna is an elderly woman who was mugged while visiting her deceased husband. She was robbed for  700 dollars, who at the time was unidentified. Luckily the police were able to apprehend the criminal. A 15 year old boy by the name of Christian was the son of the reckless criminal who had committed the crime against Tonna. Shortly after finding out that his dad had committed such a horrible act he decided to make a courageous decision. He met up with Tonna at a church parking lot and apologized to Tonna for his father’s actions. After apologizing to her he gave her 250 dollars which he had received from his father to go on a band trip. Tonna accepted the apology and the money only to fund his band trip with her own money. I can relate to this because Christian showed a lot of character traits that my teacher encourages us to use.