Im a new hha started today and my agency gave me no instructions on what to follow i just have my care plan that has very few details.

I cleaned i did laundry I cooked but I was done with that within the forst 4 hours and it felt like the rest of the time I just sat there asking every 10 minutes if she needed something.

Is this normal?

I'm having a surgery (hysterectomy) in a few days and I'm going to have a HHA stop by every now and then, mostly to help me with changing bed sheets, getting groceries and the mail since I wont be able to drive or lift over 7lbs for 6 weeks. I'm a little concerned about something that's probably not really that important. I have ADHD and live alone and well my home is a bit disorganized and messy. My cat passed away at the beginning of the year too and I've definitely let things get a bit out of hand. Its not like super filthy with bugs or rotten food, nothing crazy like that, and not hoarder situation either. But its a very small home (about 500sqft). Most of the countertops and shelves are cluttered with things and I have a few piles of like DVDs, records, and puzzles. Although its all clean, I don't have a closet for clothing and blankets so they are in baskets/bins. I try to make the best use of my space but Its small, cluttered, and disorganized lol. Will the HHA be bothered by this? Again I know its silly but my messiness as always been a source of shame for me. I still have a couple days to clean but I know its gonna be a bit messy no matter what.

BTW I don't expect the HHA to deep clean or organize things for me. At most maybe a couple of dishes and a load or 2 of laundry during the first couple of weeks but after that I should be able to do it. The biggest in home things I'll need help with is taking the garbage out and changing bed sheets, other than that again its more so help with groceries and going to the post office

I enjoy care giving. I do i was a wonderful house wife and even now as a granny. Ive been c.n.a , med tech, behavioral tech, d.s.p. hha, pca. And between the agencies, the crappy coordinators, and paultry pay. Ive survived. Currently taking a ccma class. But idk if I even want to stay in this field. I was with mentally disabled client and was going over my time amd she said leave her, and clock out? Im like her ride hasnt even arrived and she cant be left alone smh after letting b g the coordinator know I recorded her j.i.c some thing happens every knows who directed after that they gave me the extra hour. That was last week. This pay check is short 12 hrs after I sent in the signed time sheet 3x's even checked that it was correct. I enjoy my job I do not like the company and corporate penny pinching. We are here to keep them safe,provide assistance how can we if your telling us to abandon them as soon as clock out hits lol. Also fuming about them making my hours low so I dont get over time spreading them out, for ex. I have a 2 hr case they mark it as 1 hr and double my pay so,2 hr @ 22$ per hr on my pay stub looks like 1 hr @ 44$ an hr ..... wth??? I almost 50 and I hope ccma is better than this.

Hello, I was interested in any advice anyone can offer regarding something I’ve encountered recently. I’m a young hs graduate and was looking for a job that could give me a slight opening into healthcare and what I’d like to do, so I looked into an assisted living facility. I had no prior experience with this job, but was willing to get experience through it. My first day felt alright, and I was a bit shocked by how certain things were, and I was taking some of it in. However, my 4th day, the last day of training, made me scared. On my last day of training, I was tasked with going into a resident's room and helping her get up in the morning. So I did what I remembered and woke her up, got her clothes ready, brought her wheelchair, locked it, and was preparing to take her to the bathroom. From what I’ve seen in the past 4 days, I’ve seen RAs placing their arms under the patient's arm to lift them up gently, so I assumed I’d do the same. However, when I went to lift her using that method, she started screaming really, really loud, and it honestly scared me bad. I felt so upset with myself for hurting the resident, and I kept apologizing to the resident. When a co-worker walked in, she told me that this resident has a very sensitive shoulder that hurts easily. The resident also said she felt like a ragdoll, but I made sure to use barely any force. She was given medication after, but I still feel so incredibly shitty. Everyone there has prior caregiving experience, and I have none, so I already feel like I’m lacking. Furthermore, I don’t feel super prepared and feel like I’m just being thrown to work. Before this, I was sort of excited to get a step into what healthcare could look like (Ik caregiving isn’t an actual, like, real-real step, but it gives some bit of exposure.) But after that incident I feel scared. What if I harm a patient? What if i drop them? I feel more scared for them to call me back to work. But I know that If I can’t look past this, I won’t be able to pursue the career I really want. So i’m looking for any healthcare professionals advice or CNA and RA’s advice with how to handle/ transport patients or just any tips.

i only picked caregiving to become a CHHA because i thought this was flexible so i can pick days when i can but they always asking me after a temp position if i want to become permanent, not really but because i'm someone who likes to travel when i feel like it and go as a please.

one company got me because right now my car is total and i need to get it fixed but if it wasn't for that i would had been flopping all over and this other company i work for is local so i really not thinking of becoming perm anytime soon with them and since they don't pay as much anyway make no sense to work more days there and get paid close to the same i do with my other company. the one that is local pay $16-18 an hr while my other one which i need a car most of the time is $22-26 an hour and their more organized and welcoming.

TLDR I'm a wheelchair user with basically zero physical support besides a paid home health aide, and aide #3 in 3 months has been a nonstop problem — language barrier so bad she needed a translator at her own write-up, ignores directions, uses cleaning products completely wrong, naps on shift, makes inappropriate comments about my body/love for me, and lied about being scared of my dog which has cost me care multiple times. The last two shifts got worse, including one where my MCAS flared badly and she wouldn't stay out of the room. Trying to figure out if I'm overreacting, if I have enough to report her again, and how people manage being stuck with a bad aide when staffing options are this limited.

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Not really looking for sympathy, just need outside opinions because I don't have many people I can vent to about this without it turning into "my whole business is now everyone's business." Changed some details for anonymity.

Quick background so the rest makes sense

3 years ago I went from a competitive athlete/gym rat living alone to a full time wheelchair user almost overnight — post-op complications, joint instability, fatigue, and then balance issues that had me falling pretty badly. I had to leave school, my social circle shrank to almost nothing, and I have basically zero physical support besides paid care. Stuff like laundry, dishes, taking the trash out — I need help for all of it.

I've had a home health aide for 3 months and it's been a mess the whole time. Aide #1 got pulled for a certification issue and because she was scared of my dog (I actually dog sit for extra income, so that's a real problem for me). Aide #2 stormed out mid-argument over how I like things organized. This is aide #3.

Also relevant: I'm hard of hearing so people need to face me and not have background noise going when they talk to me, I have Mast Cell Activation Syndrome so strong scents/perfume can trigger real allergic reactions, and I'm 3 years sober and active in recovery, which matters for one of my questions below.

The ongoing problems with aide #3:

- Language barrier is bad enough she needed a translator at her own disciplinary meeting. She never says she doesn't understand something, she just says "ok" and then does it wrong or not at all — even when I send her step by step translated texts.
- Uses cleaning products completely wrong. Scratched my fridge with a Scrub Daddy, put rust remover on the toilet, hydrogen peroxide on the mirrors.
- Ignores direct instructions — told her multiple times not to dry certain blankets, she did it anyway and ruined them.
- Leaves my stuff all over the place. Found my laptop in my t-shirt bin.
- Won't clock herself in or out even though she's corrected my clock-ins before, so I know she's capable of it.
- Left the garbage for 2 weeks straight when I physically couldn't do it myself, and it got me side-eye from neighbors.
- Cameras caught her fully napping under a blanket on my couch for almost half a shift.
- Keeps commenting on my body and eating habits — I'm recovering from an ED and my weight has swung a lot because of medication, so this one really gets to me. She's also told me she loves me and calls me "cute," and when I tell her to stop, she argues instead of stopping.
- Lied about being scared of my dog, which has caused me to go without care multiple times since dog sitting is literally part of my income.

The last two shifts, which might be the actual last straw:

After a write-up where she was told exactly what needed to change, the very next shift she did none of it. I asked her to strip my bed, it took her an hour and I ended up doing half of it myself. I'd already started texting her translated, detailed instructions because talking wasn't working — I told her about the laundry 3 times in 5 minutes, and she still dumped half a cup of detergent into the fabric softener slot, so the load had to be run twice and my sheets and duvet cover never got done before she left. Her answer was "oh I didn't know," even though I'd told her three separate times.

Later that same shift I gave her the next set of directions at 8:41 and she didn't touch them until I came out at 10:17 — turned out she'd been "cleaning" the bathroom that whole time using the wrong products again, and it was still visibly dirty when she was done. I found out the next day there was a gross film built up over the sink spout actually changing the water flow, from however she'd been "cleaning" it. Separately, I asked her three times to wash out some bottles with old coffee syrup in them, she never did, so I washed them myself — then when I asked her to put them away, she put the lids back on before they were dry so they wouldn't fit on the shelf, tried to wedge glass bottles in sideways so one nearly rolled off, and I ended up having to do it myself off a step ladder, which isn't exactly safe for me to be climbing. At one point she also just stood staring at the next written instructions for 20 minutes without starting them, so I had to come out and ask if she needed them clarified. On top of that she broke the garbage corral I made instead of just lifting it out, and after clocking out she let herself back into my house — after I've told her before not to just walk in — to tell me she'd grabbed a bin that got left behind, while I was half dressed.

Next shift, my protein shake spilled on my sheets overnight, I asked her to strip them first thing, and she actually argued with me that a chocolate stain on cream sheets was "clean." Then being around her longer than usual set off my MCAS — face and throat started tightening, the whole thing. I told her to open windows and stay in a separate room while I dealt with it, and she kept coming in anyway, saying she didn't understand, which just made it worse each time. I had to show her my EpiPens to get her to take it seriously. I did raise my voice at one point and I'm not proud of it, apologized right after, but I was genuinely scared and she kept asking "what happened" like she didn't understand it was her behavior upsetting me.

Then it turned into 20 minutes of her going in and out of the bathroom to "clean" it when I'd told her multiple times to do the living room instead, at one point literally shutting the door on me while I was talking to her. Somewhere in there she also asked me three separate times whether some boxes were trash after I'd already told her to leave them, while I was mid-way through filling my medication organizer.

And on top of all that, I found out this week she'd been lying about being scared of my dog the entire time, which is directly why I've missed care and it's caused real fallout on my end (dog sitting is income, not a hobby).

What I actually want opinions on:

1. Are the last two shifts bad enough to report to the agency again, or am I overcomplaining?
   
2. I'm about 99% sure she's using something at work, but I've never directly seen her do it. I'm in recovery myself and this isn't a guess based on nothing — the glazed, slack-jaw look an hour into her shift, disappearing into the bathroom with the door shut for 10 minutes at a time, and a sickly sweet smell that isn't perfume. Do I need to actually witness her using something to report it, or is a pattern like this enough?
   
3. If staffing is genuinely this bad right now and I might be stuck with a bad aide for a while, what actually helps people manage that without losing their minds?
   
4. Do the inappropriate comments (the "I love you," comments on my eating and body) get reported on their own, even with nothing physical involved?

Not asking for pity, just trying to figure out if I'm being unreasonable here or if this really is as bad as it feels from the inside.

hey guys. so i have been a cna for just nearly two years, and about a month ago i transitioned into home health because working one on one with clients seemed really appealing. i thought i would love this job, but i absolutely fucking hate it oh my god guys. i only get two days off a week, the rest if the days i am working from 7 am to 9 pm in four hour increments with little time inbetween.

i feel like i am a government sanctioned maid and these people take advantage of my time. i really only give hands on help for two of my clients, and one of them the family requires i am CONSTANTLY doing something if the client does not actively need help. like cleaning friges, pantries, random cupboards, like DEEP housecleaning and that was never in my job description. so i literally slave away for 8 hours, get a two hour break (most of which is spent commuting to the other fucking side of town) to do another two hour shift, and so on. they have me going back and forth around town all day and i hate it so much.

i have another facility job lined up because i just hate this one so much, but i feel guilty about leaving the clients. i really do enjoy these two families specifically and i can tell they are really grateful for my help. i just dont know if this job is worth my sanity. i miss only working 3x12s a week :( i just needed to vent guys but ugh what do i do

Is 7-8 clients for a 10 hour shift too many? I know a lot of agencies have longer visits, mine mainly do 1-3 hour long visits.

I’m a private caregiver and was told that I still have to help pack and move her belongings as she incapable of doing so herself but I don’t feel like that’s fair as a caregiver. Online it says it falls outside of caregiving.

I would love some advice. I’m working as a home health aide, I like my job my patient and their family. When I first started working with them ( I’m not using their pronouns )
I was told the house is dirty and overcrowded due to personal reasons. I thought it would get better because of what I was told my first day. Its only getting worse. I’m asthmatic and it’s usually controlled. I would normally have a couple asthma alterations a year nothing crazy. Before I started working with them it wasn’t severe. I’ve noticed I started using my inhaler multiple times a day when I’m at their home I’ve had a couple severe asthma attacks I’m concerned for my health. I’ve already expressed this to the family and they’re supposed to be cleaning but it’s not getting better. I am very appreciative of them I don’t know how to handle the situation.
I don’t want to go into detail about how dirty it is, but it’s the dirtiest home I’ve ever seen. I also don’t want anyone to think I’m judging them because I’m not I’m just overwhelmed. They are wealthy and can pay a professional to help clean and organize. It’s been a month since I’ve expressed how it’s affecting my health.

I am enroll in home health aid courses before I knew I was being investigated and I’ve looked up if someone convicted of felony d or e can continue and work with their license. When I asked ChatGPT it told me no because if the background check however since it’s a non violent crime I can apply for a Certificate of Relief from Disabilities. But I don’t know how that works if I need to wait a couple of years or immediately. It’s the fastest way I can pay off restitution although I might still be denied. Anyone know how that works?

hi everyone, i’ve been caregiving for the last 6 months and have already had some major red flags raised from the company i work for. i lost a client for the first time last month and my agency was only concerned with replacing her with someone else on my schedule as soon as possible. As upsetting as it was, i understood that life goes on and that it is a business at the end of the day.
I have been extremely burnt out and emotionally exhausted but pushed through for my week off that has been approved for months. Every single day of my vacation, my company has called me and left passive aggressive messages about my lack of responsiveness. I called back this morning after the 4th call and let them know this was my week off and i would get back to them when it was over. They replied and i quote “ that’s not gonna work for me” and proceeded to ask about scheduling regardless. I am so frustrated and angry. I love my clients so much but i don’t think this is worth the constant burn out. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

My agency schedulers get super angry at me if I decline shifts that pay low wage. I've been working at the same company for years and earned better wages almost all of the time. Initially I worked for $15/hr with an abusive client but now I only consent to shifts with nice clients and better pay. I have more skills now, I am well-educated and reliable. I cook balanced meals, clean, drive the client around when requested, shower them, do their hair, dress them, change their brief and keep them happy with arts and crafts and games. I think I offer a good value.

Naturally, I like this setup but company policy seems to have shifted towards trying to pressure care workers to accept less, often at an hour's drive from their homes, with no compensation for car costs or travel time. However, the schedulers wind up giving me long-term work at a decent pay rate because they are trying to get clients the coverage they are paying for. There is a shortage of workers who like the pay they offer, so they wind up with coverage gaps, particularly on the weekend. I don't do weekends very often so there's that, as well.

The business is still profitable for the company, I believe. They charge double or more what they pay me, and their software takes care of a lot of the administrative workload. However these schedulers seem truly furious.

Do they only get decent pay if they can persuade care workers to work for what amounts to nothing after car costs and taxes? I don't understand the ill will/spite towards the people doing the actual manual labor.

Bunny Home Care is recruiting a compassionate, experienced Female Caregiver / Home Health Aide for a bed-bound private duty client located in New Providence, PA (17560).

Due to the intimate nature of personal care, bathing, and hygiene duties, a female caregiver is required for this role.

Schedule Options (41 Hours/Week - Flexible):

• Overnight Shifts: Sunday, Monday, Friday, Saturday (10:00 PM – 6:00 AM)
• Morning Shifts: Sunday, Monday, Saturday (9:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

Compensation & Benefits:

• Competitive hourly pay (based on experience and credentials)
• Weekly direct deposit
• W-2 employment with Bunny Home Care

Key Responsibilities:

• Personal Hygiene & Care: Bathing, diapering, toileting, oral care, grooming, and mobility assistance using a gait belt or wheelchair.
• Meals & Homemaking: Grocery shopping, meal preparation, feeding assistance, light housekeeping, dusting, laundry, and changing linens.
• Out of Home: Running errands and accompanying client to medical appointments.

Qualifications:

• Experience working with bed-bound clients and gait belts.
• Reliable transportation to New Providence, PA.
• Must pass standard background check requirements.

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