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Start Your Career with Agatha Home Health Serving Waldorf, MD, Washington DC, Baltimore, Potomac, Upper Marlboro, La Plata, MD, and the surrounding DC, MD, & VA areas.

Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA)

DC, MD, & VA Areas • Part-time

Description of duties:

• Provides patients’ personal hygiene by giving bedpans, urinals, baths, backrubs, shampoos, and shaves; assisting with travel to the bathroom; helping with showers and baths.

• Provides for activities of daily living by assisting with serving meals, feeding patients as necessary; ambulating, turning, and positioning patients; providing fresh water and nourishment between meals.

• Provides adjunct care by administering enemas, douches, nonsterile dressings, surgical preps, ice packs, heat treatments, therapeutic baths; applying restraints.

• Maintains patient stability by checking vital signs and weight; testing urine; recording intake and output information.

• Provides patient comfort by utilizing resources and materials; transporting patients; answering patients’ call lights and requests; reporting observations of the patient to nursing supervisor.

• Documents actions by completing forms, reports, logs, and records.

• Maintains work operations by following policies and procedures.

• Protects organization’s value by keeping patient information confidential.

• Serves and protects the hospital community by adhering to professional standards, hospital policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements, and JACHO standards.

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; participating in professional organizations; maintaining licensure.

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Certified Medication Technician (CMT)

DC, MD, & VA Areas • Part-time

Description of duties:

The Certified Medication Technician (CMT) administers prescribed medications to patients and maintains related medical records under supervision of the RN.

  • Verifies identity of patient receiving medication and records name of drug, dosage, and time of administration on specified forms or records.
  • Presents medication to patient and observes ingestion or other application, or administers medication, using specified procedures.
  • Takes vital signs or observes patient to detect response to specified types of medications and prepares report or notifies designated personnel of unexpected reactions.
  • Documents reasons prescribed drugs are not administered.
  • May receive supply of ordered medications and apportion, mix, or assemble drugs for administration to patient.
  • May record and restock medication inventories.
  • Document medication administration on appropriate MAR
  • All medication administration routes permitted for the CMT are:
    • Oral
    • Topical
    • Ear, Eyes, Nose
    • Suppositories, Rectally
    • Vaginally, Subcutaneous
    • Fingersticks
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Home Health Aide (HHA)

DC, MD, & VA Areas • Part-time

Description of duties:

  • Monitors patient condition by observing physical and mental condition, intake and output, and exercise.
  • Supports patients by providing housekeeping and laundry services; shopping for food and other household requirements; preparing and serving meals and snacks; running errands.
  • Assists patients by providing personal services, such as, bathing, dressing, and grooming.
  • Helps patients care for themselves by teaching use of cane or walker, special utensils to eat, special techniques and equipment for personal hygiene.
  • Helps family members care for the patient by teaching appropriate ways to lift, turn, and re-position the patient; advising on nutrition, cleanliness, and housekeeping.
  • Records patient information by making entries in the patient journal; notifying nursing supervisor of changing or unusual conditions.
  • Maintains a safe, secure, and healthy patient environment by following asepses standards and procedures; maintaining security precautions; following prescribed dietary requirements and nutrition standards;
  • Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities.
  • Protects the home care agency by adhering to professional standards, home care policies and procedures, federal, state, and local requirements.
  • Enhances service reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.


Skills, Knowledge and Qualifications:

  • High school diploma or its equivalent
  • CNA or HHA certificate or ability to pass written HCA test and skills
  • Ability to read and comprehend written instructions
  • Possess reliable transportation; car ownership/valid driver’s license
  • Ability to take and understand instructions in patients’ homes through phone
  • Ability to observe and report changes in patients’ condition to the supervising health professional
  • Relevant experience in providing personal care to patients; positioning; and transferring
  • Strong ability to be consistent and punctual to work
  • Respectful, patient, and positive.
  • Ability to lift 50 lbs.


Emotional control, Medical teamwork, passion in helping the elderly or people with illness or disability.

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Why Choose Agatha Home Health?

Our private nurses bring over 25 years of experience and treat every client like family–providing not just health and companion care, but true compassion. Our home health care aides are trained, trusted, and dedicated to creating personalized plans that meet both physical and emotional needs.

With 24/7 home health care support in Fort Waldorf, MD, Washington DC, Baltimore, Potomac, Upper Marlboro, La Plata, MD, and the surrounding DC, MD, & VA areas, and a family-owned approach, we give you peace of mind knowing your loved one is safe. Fill out our quick contact form and start getting the home health care services you or your loved ones deserve!

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