Through Penn Foster’s online Home Health Aide Training Program curriculum, learners will develop the skills and knowledge necessary to being successful on-the-job and an asset to your organization. After completing their online studies, they’ll participate in an externship to apply what they learned to real-world situations.
Career Diploma
Accredited
Estimated completion time:
The estimated completion times are based on completion times for consumer learners enrolled in this program from May 2021 - April 2022, excluding withdrawals. Enterprise Solution rates may be higher but are highly dependent upon implementation choices.
Your learners will learn how to successfully use their Penn Foster program.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to:
The course orients learners to Penn Foster’s course structure. It introduces learners to the curriculum, the externship, the student portal, and Penn Foster’s community. It offers an overview and introduction to the role of the Home Health Aide working in the home or community setting. Your learners will explore current trends and career options. Professionalism, regulations, responsibilities, and standards are also discussed.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
In this course, your learners will learn the importance of human interaction, including verbal and nonverbal communication, the communication feedback loop, barriers, cultural competence, and effective communication techniques. They’ll learn how applying communication skills can assist in caring for patients and families to meet their health care needs. Effective communication skills will be covered, along with practices involved with caring for special populations. This course also introduces the Home Health Aide to basic medical definitions and abbreviations. It covers word analysis, word usage, roots, prefixes, and suffixes. Emphasis is placed on spelling and constructing medical terms. Development of oral and written skills to understand, spell, and build medical words, as well as developing the ability to speak with patients, families, medical personnel, and caregivers, is discussed.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
This course will familiarize your learners with various body systems, including structure, function, diseases, disorders, and treatments. They’ll also learn drug delivery systems, drug administration routes, drug classifications, and commonly used medications for various organ system disorders.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
This course is a continuation of Body Systems and Medication 1. Your learners will continue to learn about various body systems, drug delivery systems, drug administration routes, drug classifications, and commonly used medications for various organ system disorders. They'll also learn basic medication calculations, storage, how to assist patients with administration, and proper documentation.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
This course is designed to train your learners in providing personal care to patients to meet their physical, psychological, and mental needs. They’ll develop homemaking and organizational skills as well as a working knowledge of IADLs. They’ll learn to apply standard practices and safety procedures. The course demonstrates how to take vital signs. They’ll learn to perform a basic health assessment with concentration on observing patients for condition changes. This course discusses basic infection control and prevention strategies, with emphasis on handwashing and bag technique. Your learners will explore how to prevent the spread of infection as well as special precautions. The course also demonstrates safety precautions and procedures for maintaining a clean and safe environment for the worker (aide), for patients in the home, at outside locations, and while transporting, along with proper body mechanics.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
Nutrition is the science that investigates how our bodies take in, break down, and use foods. The course will provide your learners with basic information on how these processes take place, including information about nutrients and how they contribute to the way the body functions. This will help your learners to have a better understanding of their decisions about food and diet. They’ll also learn about physical activities that can contribute to a healthier lifestyle. Because a central focus of nutrition studies is on health promotion, suggestions for individual nutrition choice will be discussed, as well as tactics for maintaining a healthy weight and keeping food supplies safe.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
This course provides an overview of various dimensions of aging, including the aging process and how to provide competent care to the aging patient. It explores normal biological aging, attitudes toward aging, myths of aging, and how to monitor and assess for changes in psychosocial and functional status. It teaches how to develop an instructional plan for families to effectively manage physiologic and/or psychosocial changes. It also discusses end of life issues. Finally, it covers how to identify and handle emergency situations.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
In this course, your learners will learn how law affects healthcare practitioners, the origin of law that affects medical professionals, the basics of the process of litigation and its alternatives, the common-law basis for the confidentiality of healthcare information, and the laws regulating healthcare information collected and maintained by government agencies.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
This course introduces your learners to the home health aide externship and discusses the externship process and requirements. This externship provides your learners with hands-on training. The goal of the externship is to produce a competent home health aide by developing the essential skill sets through hands-on experience. This externship consists of 40 hours of clinical experience.
By the end of this course, your learners will be able to do the following:
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