Health Care Aide Guide

Discusses the following : need for home care service, home care agency, home care team, funding for home care services, types of clients, client bill of rights, professionalism ; your career as a home care aide, personal characteristics, appearance, and attitudes, training and competencies, responsibilities to clients, responsibilities to self, responsibilities to the agency, agency responsibilities to its employees, legal and ethical issues and equipment to be carried by the home care aide.

Follows a health care worker as she organizes her day with a client who suffers from MS.

Introduces eight strategies that you can use everyday to protect yourself, your family and your community from disease-causing germs that increasingly affect our personal and public lives. Includes Hand washing : learn why it's your best defence. Immunization - learn how to prevent may of the most serious viral infections. Drug safety - learn about the crisis in antibiotic resistance, and how to choose and take medications wisely. Eating safety - learn how to select, clean, prepare and store foods properly. Safe personal practices - learn why high risk behaviour and sharing personal items can be dangerous. ...