Home healthcare aides assist patients in their homes by focusing on their specific health and personal needs. Emphasis is on personal care in a client’s home, communications, working with ill persons, basic human needs, eldercare, nutrition, special diets, and home management. Home healthcare aides also work in hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, home care, long-term care facilities, hospice, and assisted living facilities. Detailed course topics include the role of the home health aide, client relationships, infection control, hospice care, anatomy and physiology, medical terminology, dressing and personal grooming, foot care, nutrition, and other relevant topics. This program meets the necessary requirements of a leading national certification examination – please call for more details.