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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.
What a home health aide does
Become a home health aide
If you enjoy doing these activities, you might make a good home health aide
- Listening to others, not interrupting, and asking good questions.
- Thinking about the pros and cons of different ways to solve a problem.
- Looking for ways to help people.
- Understanding people's reactions.
- Noticing a problem and figuring out the best way to solve it.
Discover what you could earn in Washington
- Half of workers earn between $21 and $25 per hour.
- Half of workers earn an annual salary between $5,900 and $35,100 per year.
- 40% of individuals in this occupation have been employed in every quarter of the past year.
Part-time
- The average hourly rate for part-time workers is $24 per hour with an average salary of $24,500 per year.
Home Health Aide job outlook
Multiple Jobs
- 8% of individuals in this occupation worked for more than one employer.
- 45% of individuals in this occupation held a position in another.