Workforce Solutions at SUNY Jefferson - Flipbook - Page 20
HOME HEALTH AIDE
ONLINE
Cost: $1,299
Typical 昀椀nish time: 4-6 months
Self-Paced (start anytime)
REGISTER
Home Health Aides provide assistance to elderly, disabled, ill, and mentally disabled persons who live in their
own homes or in a residential care facility. Some Home Health Aides work with families in which a parent
is incapacitated and small children need care. Others help discharged hospital patients who have relatively
short-term needs. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that Home Health Aide will remain one of the fastestgrowing occupations for the foreseeable future. Numerous job openings with excellent opportunities are
expected. Job opportunities will be prevalent in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, home care, long-term
care facilities, hospice and assisted living facilities. Home Health Aides can be in the form of paid employees
who come into the home for a few hours a day or who live in the home full time or can be family members or
friends of the resident.
This comprehensive program prepares students for a position as a Home Health Aide. Emphasis is on giving
personal care in a client’s home, communications, working with ill persons, basic human needs, eldercare,
nutrition, special diets, and home management. Many different types of individuals require assistance in
daily tasks, assistance with minor medical tasks, and companionship because they are ill, elderly, or disabled
in some way, may be of any age, and live at home or in a home-like residential facility. Home Health Aides
provide this assistance entirely or provide some of the care to allow family caregivers a respite. This program
will ensure students are prepared to provide a variety of essential services for their clients including health
care management and monitoring, assistance with activities of daily living (ADLs) ranging from bathing,
dressing, eating, using the bathroom, housekeeping and laundry to medication reminders and/or management,
recreational activities and companionship, security and transportation.
Certi昀椀cation Opportunities
This program meets the necessary requirements to take the National Workforce Career Association (NWCA)
Certi昀椀ed Personal Care Assistant (CPCA) exam.
Optional Volunteer Externship Opportunity
Learners who complete this program are eligible to participate in an optional volunteer externship opportunity
with a local company/agency/organization whose work aligns with this area of study in order to gain valuable
hands-on experience. As learners progress through their eLearning program, an Externship Coordinator will
reach out to coordinate placement.
Additional documentation including health records, immunizations, drug-screening, criminal background checks, etc. may be
required by the externship facility.
