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Home Health Aide
AL137

YEAR:

2023-2024

CREDIT HOURS:

2.00

PREREQUISITES:

Allied Health Permission, or Accuplacer Next Generation Reading Score of 231 or above, or Accuplacer Writing Score of 40 to 120, and ACT Reading Score of 14 or Above.

COREQUISITES:

None

COURSE NOTES:

Meets state requirements for the Home Health Aide state exam; 30 clock hours.

CATALOG COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Fundamental knowledge of the aging process with emphasis on providing services essential to the physical, mental, and psycho-social well being of clients in the home setting incorporating basic care of clients with the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in the home setting.

HutchCC INSTITUTION-WIDE OUTCOMES:

  1. Demonstrate the ability to think critically and make reasonable judgments by acquiring, analyzing, combining, and evaluating information.
  2. Demonstrate the skills necessary to access and manipulate information through various technological and traditional methods.
  3. Demonstrate effective communication through reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
  4. Demonstrate effective interpersonal and collaborative skills.
  5. Demonstrate effective quantitative-reasoning and computational skills.

AREA OR PROGRAM OUTCOMES

  1. Demonstrate the Hutchinson Community College institutional outcomes,
  2. Display entry-level knowledge and skills fundamental to the allied health professions,
  3. Demonstrate good communications skills,
  4. Demonstrate skills in technology,
  5. Demonstrate problem-solving and critical-thinking skills,

COURSE OUTCOMES AND COMPETENCIES:

  1. Discuss basic orientation to home care.
    1. Describe functions of a home health agency.
    2. Describe how a home health agency may be organized.
    3. Identify responsibilities of home health personnel.
    4. Discuss how a plan for client care is developed and used in the home health agency.
    5. Discuss legal and ethical aspects of the Home Health Aide's job.
  2. Work effectively with people.
    1. Identify goals of the Home Health Aide for providing care in the client's home.
    2. Identify common adult and family reactions to stress, such as illness and disability or approaching death.
    3. Describe appropriate response of the home health aide to client/family behaviors resulting from the stress of illness and disability or approaching death.
    4. Identify common reactions of children to personal or family illness and stress.
    5. Identify the role of the home health aide in working with children in the home.
    6. Identify characteristics of mental health.
    7. Identify the role of the home health aide in situations where there is mental illness.
    8. Define what is meant by developmental disability.
    9. Identify the role of the home health aide in working with a client who is developmentally disabled.
    10. Describe indications of family abuse which might be observed.
    11. Indicate what the aide's responsibility is if abuse is suspected.
    12. Identify the role of the Home Health Aide in providing Hospice and palliative care.
    13. Identify the role of the Home Health Aide with a dying client when there are religious and cultural differences.
    14. Identify the role of the Home Health Aide when a death occurs in the home.
  3. Manage the home environment.
    1. Identify actions the Home Health Aide takes to maintain a clean, safe, healthy environment.
    2. Identify the role of the Home Health Aide with doing housekeeping.
    3. Identify the role of the Home Health Aide with doing laundry.
  4. Demonstrate appropriate nutrition and meal preparation.
    1. Identify the importance of an adequate and balanced intake of food.
    2. Name the four basic food groups.
    3. Identify foods which belong to each group.
    4. Identify the recommended amount of the four basic food groups for both adults and children.
    5. Plan a day's menu as might be done for a client, following recommended amounts of the four basic food groups.
    6. Discuss factors to consider in planning for food purchases.
    7. Identify ways to safely store food.
    8. Discuss safe food handling and preparation practices.
    9. Identify foods or substances to be avoided in the following therapeutic diets: diabetic, low sodium, and low cholesterol.
    10. Discuss the aide's responsibility in serving food safely.
  5. Adapt personal care activities in the client's home.
    1. Describe how to adapt personal care activities to meet the client's needs in the home.
  6. Care for mother and baby.
    1. Discuss the role of the home health aide in caring for mother and baby.
    2. State how to prepare a bottle for feeding avoiding contamination.
    3. Describe how to feed and burp a baby.
    4. Describe how to bathe a baby, including care of the umbilical cord and circumcision (if present).
    5. Describe how to diaper a baby.
    6. Identify safety principles to be observed when caring for an infant.
    7. List signs of potential health crisis for an infant, warranting evaluation by a health professional.
  7. Assist clients with medication.
    1. Define the role of the home health aide in assisting the client with medication.
    2. Identify observations about the client's medication which the home health aide should report and to whom the aide should report.
    3. Identify how to store medication safely.
    4. Discuss how to dispose of old medication safely.
    5. Identify the responsibilities of the home health aide in assisting the client with oxygen (O2) therapy.
    6. Identify proper directions for use of other equipment.
  8. Identify special procedures and emergency care.
    1. Describe the technique for changing a non-sterile dressing.
    2. Describe care for a person who has a cast.
    3. Describe general guidelines for care of a client who wears a prosthesis.
    4. Identify how to use a vaporizer or humidifier safely.
    5. Identify the home health aide's actions in emergency situations.
  9. Define the Home Health Aide's actions in emergency situations.
    1. Describe the importance of reporting as it related to the Home Health Aide.
    2. Discuss the importance of documentation within the role of the Home Health Aide.
    3. Identify the importance of observation within the role of the Home Health Aide.

COURSE ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:

1. Participation in class discussion determining understanding of course material 2. Workbook, worksheets, quizzes and projects completed and turned in on time 3. Successfully complete final examination Complete all requirements of the course with a minimum of 70% accuracy.

ACCOMMODATIONS STATEMENT:

Any student who has a documented disability and wishes to access academic accommodations (per the 1973 Rehabilitation Act and Americans with Disability Act) must contact the HCC Coordinator of Disability Services, at 620-665-3554, or the Student Success Center, Parker Student Union. The student must have appropriate documentation on file before accommodations can be provided.

ACADEMIC HONESTY:

Education requires integrity and respect for HutchCC's institutional values. HutchCC students are required to maintain honesty through a "responsible acquisition, discovery, and application of knowledge" in all academic pursuits. Preserving and upholding academic honesty is the responsibility of Hut chCC students, faculty, administrators and staff.

I. Student Responsibilities

All HutchCC students are required to:

  • Submit all work in all courses without cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, sabotage, or academic dishonesty as defined below.
  • Provide all academic records such as transcripts and test scores that are free of forgery.
  • Refrain from participating in the academic dishonesty of any person.
  • Use only authorized notes and student aids.
  • Use technology appropriately, including refraining from submitting AI (Artificial Intelligence)-generated work without express written consent from your instructor.
  • Protect the security of passwords/login/privacy/electronic files, and maintain sole individual access for any online course information.

II. Definition of Academic Dishonesty

  • Academic dishonesty is any intentional act, or attempted act, of cheating, fabrication, plagiarism, dissimulation, forgery, or sabotage in academic work.
  • Cheating includes using unauthorized materials of any kind, whether hard copies, online, or electronic, such as unapproved study aids in any academic work, copying another student's work, using an unauthorized "cheat sheet" or device, or purchasing or acquiring an essay online or from another student.
  • Fabrica tion is the invention or falsification of any information or citation in any academic work, such as making up a source, providing an incorrect citation, or misquoting a source.
  • Plagiarism is the representation of words, ideas and other works that are not the student's own as being original to the student. A no n-inclusive list of examples includes work completed by someone else, work generated by an external entity (such as AI), omitting a citation for work used from another source, or borrowing the sequence of ideas, arrangement of material, and/or pattern of thought of work not produced by the student, even though it may be expressed in the student's own words.
  • Dissimulation is the obscuring of a student's own actions with the intention of deceiving others in any academic work, such as fabricating excuses for absences or missed assignments, or feigning attendance.
  • Forgery of academic documents is the unauthorized altering, falsification, misrepresentation, or construction of any academic document, such as changing transcripts, changing grades on papers or on exams which have been returned, forging signatures, manipulating a digital file of academic work, or plagiarizing a translation.
  • Sabotage is any obstruction or attempted obstruction of the academic work of another student, such as impersonating another student, stealing or ruining another student's academic work.
  • Aiding and abetting academic dishonesty is considered as knowingly facilitating any act defined above.
  • Academic honesty violations can also include the omission or falsification of any information on an application for any HutchCC academic program.

III. Sanctions for Academic Dishonesty

Students who violate the Academic Honesty Policy may be subject to academic or administrative consequences.

Instructor Sanctions for Violation:

Students suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy may be charged in writing by their instructor and any of the following may apply:

  • Assign Avoiding Plagiarism Bridge Module
  • Receiving written warning that could lead to more severe sanction if a second offense occurs
  • Revising the assignment/work in question for partial credit
  • Voiding work in question without opportunity for make-up
  • Reducing the grade for work in question
  • Lowering the final course grade
  • Failing the work in question

Institutional Sanctions for Violation:

Students charged with academic dishonesty, particularly in instances of repeated violations, may further be subjected to an investigation and any of the following may apply:

  • Instructor recommendation to the Vice President of Academic Affairs (VPAA) to dismiss the student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA to dismiss student from the course in which the dishonesty occurs with a grade of 'F." Student will not be allowed to take a 'W' for the course
  • Instructor recommendation to the VPAA that the student be suspended and/or dismissed from the program
  • Student barred from course/program for a set period of time or permanently
  • May be recommended by the instructor (after documented repeated offenses) to the VP AA that the student be placed on probation, suspended and/or dismissed from the institution.

IV. Procedure

  • Instructor will communicate in writing via the student's HutchCC email account and/or LearningZone email account to the student suspected of violating the Academic Honesty Policy.  That communication may include sanction(s). Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • For each violation, the instructor will submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form to the Department Chair. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation form.
  • Should the instructor choose to pursue institutional sanctions, the instruct or shall notify the student in writing via the student's HutchCC email account.  Instructor shall also submit a completed Academic Honesty Violation Form and all prior completed forms regarding said student to the Department Chair and the office of the VPAA with recommendation to proceed with specific Institutional Sanctions. Department Chair will notify the student's academic advisor upon receipt of the Academic Honesty Violation Form.
  • The decision of the VPAA on Institutional Sanction is final. The VPAA will notify the student's academic advisor of any institutional sanctions.

V. Due Process Rights

Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

Academic Honesty Appeal Process

I. Due Process Rights: Students charged with violations of academic honesty have the right of appeal and are assured of due process through the Academic Honesty Appeal process.

  • If an instructor has recommended course or program dismissal, the student may continue in coursework (provi ding there are no threatening or security behavioral issues) until appeal processes are concluded. However, if an issue has been documented at a partnership location (e.g., clinical sites, secondary institutions, correctional or military facilities), then the student is no longer eligible to continue participation in internships, apprenticeships, and/or clinical-based practice. For clinical sites, this sanction is immediate.

II. Process

If the student disagrees with the charge of a violation of academic honesty, the student has the right to due process as described in the Academic Honesty Appeal process below:

  • If the matter is not resolved upon communicating with the instructor about the violation, the student shall, within five business days of the issuance of the written notice of violation, submit a completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form and supporting documentation to the appropriate department chairperson to initiate an Academic Honesty Appeal.
  • Within two business days of receiving the student's completed Academic Honesty Appeal Form, the Department Chair and VPAA will review and the VPAA will render a decision.
  • Within two business days, a response will be sent to the student's HutchCC email address. The VPAA's decision is final.

INCOMPLETE GRADE:

Instructors may give a student a grade of Incomplete (I) under the following conditions:

  1. The student must initiate the request prior to the time final course grades are submitted to Records.
  2. The request must be made because of an emergency, illness or otherwise unavoidable life-event.
  3. The instructor must agree to the request before a grade of Incomplete can be submitted.
  4. A written contract between the instructor and student, signed by both, will document the work required and date needed to complete course work.
  5. If a student does not complete the course requirements within the time frame established by the instructor, a grade of "F" will be recorded on the student's transcript at the end of the next semester.

PROGRAM ACCREDITATION:

Health Occupations Credentialing (HOC)
Kansas Department of Aging and Disability Services (KDADS)
612 S. Kansas Ave.
Topeka, KS 66603-3404

HLC ACCREDITATION:

Hutchinson Community College is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC). The Higher Learning Commission is one of six regional institutional accreditors recognized by the US Department of Education and the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA).

Last Revised: 03/30/2023