CAREER MAP HOME HEALTH AIDE

CAREER MAP HOME HEALTH AIDE

CAREER MAP HOME HEALTH AIDE Home healh aides are one of he fases growing jobs in New York Ciy. Wih more educaion, home healh aides can move ino many oher ypes of jobs in healh care. WHAT IS A HOME HEALTH AIDE (HHA)? Home Healh Aides (HHAs) primarily ake care of people in he places where hey live. This care allows people o say in heir own homes, which many older people and heir families like. HHAs help cliens wih aciviies like geing dressed, bahing, using he oile and making meals. They may also help wih laundry, changing linens, vacuuming and washing he dishes. Under he supervision of nurses, hey check he clien s hear rae, blood pressure, breahing and emperaure. They also perform oher medicallyrelaed asks. WHO LIKES TO WORK AS A HOME HEALTH AIDE? People who like his work Have paience, compassion and care abou he well-being of ohers. Like helping people and do no mind working wih differen ypes of people. Can deal wih sickness and bodily funcions. WHAT TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS DO HOME HEALTH AIDES WORK FOR? Mos HHAs work for licensed home care agencies. These agencies coordinae basic healh and personal care services for heir cliens, who are usually elderly people or people wih disabiliies who live a home. These agencies assign each HHA o care for one or more cliens. WHAT KIND OF PAY AND HOURS ARE INVOLVED IN THIS TYPE OF WORK? Home healh aides migh work full-ime or parime. People wih more experience and people who work for larger, sable agencies wih a big clien base ofen work more hours. HHAs may work shor shifs, longer shifs, or a combinaion. Work is mosly in he mornings and evenings. They work on weekends. HHAs may have o ravel around he Ciy. Pay for HHAs in NYC is a leas $10/hour and HHAs are eniled o paid leave and employersponsored benefis (like healh insurance). Some agencies may pay more. In NYC, mos home healh aides are covered by union agreemens, which can ofen mean beer pay or oher benefis. HOW CAN I BECOME A HOME HEALTH AIDE? In order o ge a job, you mus have a Home Healh Aide cerificae. To obain his cerificae, you mus complee a New York Sae-approved raining program, which akes a leas 75 hours and includes 16 hours in a home-like seing where you will be observed. You mus show ha you can carry ou he required asks before becoming cerified. Courses are offered direcly by home care agencies, hrough CUNY, and by privae raining schools. To view a curren lising of Sae-licensed HHA programs, visi hp//www.op.nysed.gov/prof/ nursenurseprogs-hha.hml

WHAT ARE THE CAREER PATHS FOR HOME HEALTH AIDES? The career map shown here is based on he real-life experiences of people who have worked as Home Healh Aides (HHAs) in he New York mero area. Many HHAs say in his ype of work for years, bu may move from one agency o anoher or go from par-ime o fullime work. Some work as HHAs while going o school. For people who move ino oher relaed careers, he mos ypical jobs five o en years afer saring work as a Home Healh Aide are shown on his career map. $30K - $39K MEDICAL ASSISTANT ASSOCIATE DEGREE $19K-$25K $10+/ PER HOUR HOME HEALTH AIDE 0 TO 5 YEARS 5 TO 10 YEARS 5 TO H. S. DIPLOMA /EQUIVALENT s $66K - $85K REGISTERED NURSE (RN) ASSOCIATE DEGREE To ake a sep up in your career, you will ofen need experience, educaion and credenials. You can use his career map o help you se shor- and long-erm goals for advancing your career. The back cover of his career map liss offerings a Ciy Universiy of New York (CUNY) colleges ha are relaed o he jobs on he career map. $58K - $73K ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGIST ASSOCIATE DEGREE KEY s CERTIFICATE REQUIRED LICENSE REQUIRED CERTIFICATE PREFERED ADMINISTRATION & CLINICAL CLINICAL / NURSING TECHNICAL HEALTH EDUCATION SHOWN IS THE TYPICAL EDUCATION FOR PEOPLE WORKING IN THESE JOBS.

10 YEARS $45K - $56K LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE (LPN) $81K - $96K LABORATORY MANAGER BACH. DEGREE $71K - $91K REGISTERED NURSE (RN) $70K- $93K ULTRASOUND SUPERVISOR $75K - $95K REGISTERED NURSE (RN) SUPERVISOR 10 TO 15 YEARS $83K- $107K NURSE PRACTITIONER (NP) MASTER S DEGREE MEDICAL ASSISTANT AND BEYOND For people who move on o anoher relaed job, becoming a MEDICAL ASSISTANT is he mos common pah. Medical Assisans perform a combinaion of clinical and adminisraive funcions. Mos work in physicians offices or communiy healh ceners and are supervised by a physician or a nurse. Clinical duies may include aking vial signs, drawing blood and preparing paiens for examinaions. Adminisraive asks may include scheduling, mainaining records, and billing and coding for insurance. You ll need a leas a high school diploma o qualify. In New York Ciy, many Medical Assisans have an Associae Degree. Many employers require some ype of Medical Assisan cerificaion. MEDICAL ASSISTANTS who move ino relaed careers ofen become LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSES or REGISTERED NURSES. Boh of hese occupaions require addiional educaion and a license from New York Sae. REGISTERED NURSE AND BEYOND Some Home Healh Aides [HHAs] become REGISTERED NURSES (RNS). Ofen, hey work as HHAs while hey are going o school o become an RN. RNs may have a wo-year degree or a Bachelor of Nursing degree. All RNs mus pass a Sae licensing exam. Some RNs visi homes like HHAs, and someimes even supervise HHAs. Many ohers work in hospials, or in docor s offices or communiy healh ceners. Careers in nursing offer more opporuniies for growh and higher pay wih more educaion and experience. REGISTERED NURSES can become REGISTERED NURSE SUPERVISORS or NURSE PRACTITIONERS. ULTRASOUND TECHNOLOGIST AND BEYOND also called Diagnosic Medical Sonographers or DMS. People in hese jobs operae special imaging (or sonography ) equipmen on paiens. Sonography equipmen shows images of inernal pars of he human body, such as he hear, somach, brain and he female reproducive sysem. Many employers require people in hese jobs o have official credenials, like a cerificae or a degree from an accredied program. To find accredied programs, visi hp//www.caahep. org/find-an-accredied-program/ To learn more abou cerificaes and oher credenials, visi he American Regisry of Diagnosic Medical Sonographers (ARDMS) a hp//www.ardms.org Over ime and wih more educaion, people in hese jobs ypically advance o becoming ULTRASOUND SUPERVISORS or LABORATORY MANAGERS.

WHAT JOBS ARE SIMILAR TO HOME HEALTH AIDE? There are oher healh care jobs ha sound almos he same as HHA. How are hey he same and how are hey differen? PERSONAL CARE AIDE (PCA) PCAs mainly deliver personal care services o cliens, helping hem wih heir daily living aciviies while oher healh care professionals aend o heir basic healh needs. Due o recen changes in how hese services are paid for, PCAs looking o say in his field will have more opporuniies if hey upgrade o HHA. CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT (CNA) CNAs help paiens wih heir basic healh and hygiene needs. The asks are similar o Home Healh Aides, bu CNAs usually work in hospials, nursing homes and oher long-erm care faciliies and in healh clinics, raher han in he paien s home. CNAs mus have a CNA cerificaion. DIRECT SUPPORT PROFESSIONAL (DSP) DSPs work mainly wih people wih disabiliies, usually people wih developmenal disabiliies. Alhough he duies are similar o HHAs, hese cliens usually require more inensive and specialized care beyond wha HHAs ypically provide. DSPs mosly work for communiy agencies ha boh operae group homes and provide services o people wih disabiliies in heir homes and a heir workplaces. There is no cerificaion required o become a DSP, bu here is required raining on he job and here are more pre-employmen background checks. FOR MORE INFORMATION If you would like o reques more career maps, please conac CURTIS DANN-MESSIER Assisan Direcor for Coninuing Educaion The Ciy Universiy of New York 718-254-7708 curis.dann-messier@cuny.edu

" CUNY CareerPATH Preparaion for Aduls Through Training and Higher Educaion MANHATTAN 1 10 2 3 4 5 11 BROOKLYN 14 12 BRONX 13 6 8 7 QUEENS This informaion on his career map was derived from online work hisories provided o Payscale, Inc. by individuals who worked in he occupaions shown in his career map in he New York Ciy meropolian area. PayScale, Inc. and Monser Governmen Soluions provided his informaion o he NYC Labor Marke Informaion Service. This workforce soluion was funded by a gran awarded by he U.S. Deparmen of Labor s Employmen and Training Adminisraion. The soluion was creaed by he granee and does no necessarily reflec he official posiion of he U.S. Deparmen of Labor. The Deparmen of Labor makes no guaranees, warranies, or assurances of any kind, express or implied, wih respec o such informaion, including any informaion on linked sies and including, bu no limied o, accuracy of he informaion or is compleeness, imeliness, usefulness, adequacy, coninued availabiliy, or ownership. The CUNY CareerPATH Program is an equal opporuniy employer/program and auxiliary aids and services are available upon reques o individuals wih disabiliies. 15 STATEN ISLAND 9 WHAT PROGRAMS AT CUNY PREPARE PEOPLE FOR THE JOBS ON THIS CAREER MAP? KEY CERTIFICATES ASSOC. BACH. ADV.CERT NURSING HEALTH CARE SUPPORT MEDICAL ASSISTANT NURSING / CLINICAL TECHNICAL HEALTH HOME HEALTH AIDE AGING/ GERONTOLOGY CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT PATIENT CARE TECH MEDICAL ASSISTANT MEDICAL / RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY MEDICAL / RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGY MEDICAL LAB TECH LPN RN (AAS) RN (BSN) NURSE PRACTITIONER ADVANCED CERTIFICATE MASTERS SI BRONX BROOKLYN QUEENS MANHATTAN 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE CITY COLLEGE HUNTER COLLEGE CUNY SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL STUDIES LAGUARDIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE QUEENS COLLEGE QUEENSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE YORK COLLEGE KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEDGAR EVERS COLLEGE NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY BRONX COMMUNITY COLLEGE HOSTOS COMMUNITY COLLEGE LEHMAN COLLEGE COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND NOTE THIS TABLE IS ACCURATE FOR THE 2014-2015 ACADEMIC YEAR. AS CUNY CONTINUOUSLY UPDATES ITS DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE OFFERINGS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, PLEASE CONSULT EACH INDIVIDUAL SCHOOL S WEBSITE FOR THE MOST CURRENT LISTINGS.