Course Name : Home Health Aide Job Oriented Program B1

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Course Code : HC20HHA

Course Duration : 240 Hrs

Course Description :

• Job role and responsibilities of a home health aide
• ·Human anatomy and physiology
• Personal hygiene and hand hygiene practices
• Personal hygiene of the patients and elderly people
• Bed making
• Nutrition and hydration
• Elimination needs of the patients and elderly people
• Therapeutic communication with patient at home
• Ergonomics and body mechanics
• Positioning, ambulation and transferring of the patients
• Consent, observing, reporting and documentation
• Care plan implementation and fall prevention
• Sanitation, safety and first aid
• Infection control and prevention
• Bio-medical waste management
• Basic computer knowledge
• Work readiness and soft skills 

Course Outcome :

• To understand the job role and responsibilities of a home health aide
• To familiarize with human anatomy and physiology
• To assist the patients and elderly people with managing their personal hygiene
• To assist the patients and elderly people with performing everyday activities
• To ensure the patient and elderly people’s comfort and safety, and provide best health care
• To make bed, and manage bed linen and laundry
• To arrange the required equipment and supplies to assist the supervising nurse with administration of drugs, injections, drips etc.
• Communicate with patients and elderly people in a therapeutic way
• Use proper body mechanics during patient care activities
• To assist the patients and elderly people with transfer, ambulation and positioning in bed
• To observe, report and document patient care related activities  
• To maintain an appropriate, hygienic and safe environment for the patients and others
• To understand and respect the patient’s rights, and maintain the privacy and dignity of the patient
• Operate computer, and make word documents and excel sheets

Course Content :

1. Job role and responsibilities of a home health aide
2. Personal hygiene and grooming for a home health aide
3. Code of ethics and conduct for a home health aide
4. Patients’ rights
5. Basic structure of the human body
6. Physiologic systems of the human body
7. Secretion, excretion and body fluids
8. Basic medical and surgical equipment
9. Hand hygiene
10. Personal protective equipment
11. Maintaining personal hygiene and grooming of a patient
12. Types of patient bed linen and its care
13. Making an occupied and an unoccupied bed
14. Diets for various health conditions
15. Assisting a patient or an elderly person with feeding procedure
16. Assisting a patient or an elderly person with elimination needs
17. Caring of a patient with an indwelling catheter
18. Compassionate patient care
19. Therapeutic communication with patients
20. Ergonomics and body mechanics in health care
21. Assisting a patient with ambulation and positioning
22. Assisting with transferring a patient
23. Basics of documentation of patient’s routine activities and condition
24. Implementation of patient safety care plan
25. Potential occupational hazards and safety measures in a health care facility
26. Basics of first aid
27. Infection prevention and control practices
28. Bio-medical waste management
29. Basic computer skills
30. Communication skills
31. Other soft skills

Pre-requisite:   Class 10^th Pass

Training Method: Instruction Based Online Training & Virtual Classroom