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Home Care Aide track
Home health and personal care aides are one of the largest job groups in the US, with about 765,800 openings projected each year (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, opens in a new tab). We're building a track for them and the agencies that employ them.
For caregivers: Home Care Aide Foundations
The classroom and knowledge part of aide training. It prepares you; it doesn't certify you. Hands-on skills and your competency evaluation still happen in person with a registered nurse.
- The aide's role, scope and when to report to the nurse
- Communication, dignity and patient rights
- Infection control and hand hygiene
- Safe transfers, body mechanics and fall prevention
- Vital signs: concepts and recording
- Personal care and skin integrity
- Nutrition, hydration and intake/output
- Recognizing changes in condition and emergencies
- Documentation and privacy basics
- Competency-evaluation readiness
For agencies: annual in-service library
Aides at Medicare-certified home health agencies need at least 12 hours of in-service training every 12 months (42 CFR 484.80, opens in a new tab). We plan one-hour modules with a quiz and a completion record:
- Dementia care
- Abuse and neglect reporting
- Infection control refresher
- Fall prevention
- Emergency preparedness
- Cultural humility
- Caregiver burnout
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Already studying for the CNA exam?
Your nurse aide training can count toward home health aide work. Read how CNA and home health aide requirements connect, or keep going with CNA prep.