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Home Health Aide
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What this course establishes
- Separate federal agency requirements, state credentials, competency evaluation, supervision and employer authorization for home-health-aide work
- Plan person-centered simulated home visits that integrate identity, rights, ADLs, instrumental tasks, nutrition, medication boundaries, infection controls and reporting
- Recognize and control fictional household, mobility, driving, violence, animal, utility and emergency hazards while maintaining closed-loop continuity
Entry knowledge
- Basic reading, arithmetic, communication and household-task skills
- Ability to distinguish objective observation from assessment, diagnosis or care-plan change
- Commitment to work only from the current individualized plan, verified assignment and demonstrated competency
Scope boundaries
- Every person, home, record and activity is fictional simulation. Learners must not assess, diagnose, triage, treat, prescribe, administer or organize real medication, feed someone without a verified swallowing plan, transfer or lift a real person, perform exercises, wound or device care, collect specimens, drive or transport a client, access a real record, enter an unsafe home, alter equipment, or direct real care or emergency response through this course.
- This internal certificate-of-completion course is not an approved home-health-aide training or competency evaluation program, state license or certification, nurse-aide equivalency, Medicare agency qualification, clinical placement, employer competency validation, nursing credential, first-aid/CPR certification, degree, college credit or in-service attestation. No completion time, credential, examination result, transfer, placement or employment outcome is guaranteed.
Fastest competency route
Completion is self-paced and competency-based. Prior knowledge can shorten study only when authority, individualized plan, choice, safe technique, objective reporting and backup continuity remain traceable across varied simulations; no completion time, hands-on competence, agency qualification, state credential, credit or employment outcome is guaranteed.
- Pass diagnostics on qualification, plan of care, rights, ADLs, household support, nutrition, medication boundaries, observation, infection, mobility and emergency continuity
- Repair every planted defect in the fictional home-visit audit
- Complete and defend a simulation-only home-visit and continuity dossier
Full self-paced route
- Role, qualification, plan of care, rights and communication
- Personal care, household support, nutrition, medications and reporting
- Home safety, infection prevention, mobility, emergencies and continuity
- Applied home-visit dossier
Lesson and assessment map
Qualification, plan of care, patient rights, and home communication
Enter a home visit with verified authority, a current plan and consent rather than assumptions based on familiarity.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Personal care, household support, nutrition, medications, and reporting
Complete assigned home support accurately while recognizing changes that require licensed review.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Home safety, infection prevention, mobility, emergencies, and continuity
Control hazards in an unpredictable home without exceeding the plan or remaining in unsafe conditions.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
Simulation-only home-visit and continuity dossier
Repair the fictional visit audit and design one complete home-health-aide episode from pre-visit review through closed-loop handoff. Use fictional data and paper/digital simulation only. Every task must trace to the current plan, assignment, verified competency and supervision; do not enter a real home or provide real care.
- Corrected visit audit with one disposition per stable ID and a duplicate-resolution log
- Qualification, competency, supervision, in-service, state and agency-requirement crosswalk
- Current-plan and assignment comparison with rights, identity, consent/refusal, access, family-boundary and property controls
- ADL, IADL, nutrition/hydration, medication-boundary, observation and escalation simulations
- Home/transport/lone-worker hazard screen, infection setup, exposure response, mobility gate and equipment check
- Individualized emergency, outage, evacuation, backup-caregiver and missed-visit continuity plan plus accessible quality dashboard
Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- A jurisdiction- and agency-accepted home-health-aide training and competency evaluation pathway with required supervised practical instruction
- Directly observed competency for every assigned personal-care or health-related task using the employer's equipment and policies
- Agency orientation to the individual plan of care, home hazards, infection and exposure control, lone-worker safety, emergency communication, documentation and supervision