The Home Health Aide: More Than a Job

Course overview

Home health aides (HHAs) are a valued part of the healthcare field. HHAs are classified as healthcare paraprofessionals, as they are not licensed healthcare workers. All paraprofessionals should practice professionalism. Professionalism is a status and everyone should work and strive towards it. Many HHAs carry a status of professionalism that is hard to match. This can be seen in the care and hard work that millions of HHAs deliver every day. In this course, we will discuss how to reach that status of professionalism in self-care, communication, confidentiality, and privacy that a successful HHA must acquire.