Homemaker Services

Qualifications

Our homemakers have excellent expressive and comprehensive communication skills. They have successfully completed mandatory orientation and training. They have participated in ongoing in-serve training.

They have experience providing personal care to persons with disabilities in their homes or in employment. They possess knowledge of nursing care, first aid, personal and environmental hygiene, and knowledge of all areas of budgeting, housekeeping, nutrition, food preparation, and clothing care.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Helping establish household routines.
• Teaching proper clothing care.
• Performing routine housekeeping, such as making and changing beds, dusting, washing dishes, vacuuming, and keeping the kitchen and bathroom dean.
• Instructing customers in budgeting.
• Assisting in the preparation of shopping lists, encouraging good buying practices, and making the necessary purchases of food and other basic items where the customer cannot do the shopping; planning and preparing meals and special diets when necessary, attempting to conform to family dietary habits, and keeping in mind proper nutrition and the family’s food allowance, encouraging the family to correct inadequate or poor dietary practices.
• Giving non-medical personal care as needed, assistance with dressing, washing, and bathing, care of teeth or dentures, demonstrating and instructing family members in good hygienic practices; reminding patients to take prescribed medications; reminding clients to perform active range of motion if applicable.
• Accompanying customers to the doctor’s office and other places as necessary to conduct personal business, may be required by the provider to use their cars to provide transportation as necessary.
• Preparing a written record of each case served to consist of daily records of activities, observations, progress toward goals, and direct hours of service.
• Attending training classes and staff conferences.

Job Limitations

1. The home services worker will not function in any manner viewed as the practice of nursing according to the State’s Nurse Practice Act. Specifically, the home health aide will not administer medications, take physician’s orders, or perform procedures requiring the training, knowledge, and skill of a nurse, such as sterile techniques.
2. A home services worker shall not provide respiratory care which includes postural drainage, cupping adjusting oxygen flow within established parameters, nasal, endotracheal suctioning, and turning off or changing masks. However, home services workers may temporarily remove and replace a cannula or mask from the client’s face for the purposes of shaving or washing the client’s face and may provide oral suctioning.
3. The home services worker will not provide skincare when skin is broken, and when any chronic skin problems are active.
4. The home services worker will not assist a client with bathing if the client has skilled skincare needs or special dressings that will need attention before, during, or after bathing.
5. Provide skilled personal care services.
6. Become or act as power of attorney.
7. Shall not involve in any financial transactions of the client outside of contracted services. In such cases, the home services worker shall follow the agency policy in regard to securing receipts for items purchased and ensuring both the client and worker affix their signatures on these documents of expenditures.
8. Perform or provide medication setup for a client and other actions specifically prohibited by the agency’s policy or other state laws.