Hello everyone,
A question for all on the list who use private duty CNA/Home Health Aide
Care and pay for it
out of pocket, how much you pay your CNA/Home health aide per hour? I
have two
excellent CIA's and both are complaining that they are not earning
enough. Thing is,
I gave them both raises are a few months ago, from $28.00 to $30.00 an
hour. I know
that's not a lot but at the time that's all I could afford but my
financial situation
Changed for the better and now I can afford a little more and am
wondering what a
a good hourly rate is to pay an excellent CNA? Below are my morning
and evening Care plans:
Morning care plan:
Sponge bath, upper body (no legs or feet) Done in bed, six days a week,
whole body 7 days a week.
Getting dressed (also done in bed) I usually wear nylon running pants,
no underpants so just involves changing the pants.
Sliding board transfer into power chair.
She makes a breakfast which usually consists of brewed coffee &
microwave pancakes or
waffles done in toaster oven. On Fridays and only Friday she'll make
scrambled eggs
and a toasted English muffin.
3 days a week she'll make a wrap sandwich.
Quite a few little side jobs like checking and opening my mail, opening
any boxes or packages I may receive.
Night time care plan:
Mixing and serving me metamucil.
Getting undressed, 99% of time only involves taking off shirt.
Sliding board transfer into bed.
Range of motion exercises on legs, takes about 10 minutes.
Prepare night snack, usually just 2 apple slices & 2 prunes. The
Moving wheelchair into place by bed (power chair, heavy, not very easy
to move)
Also occasional little side jobs like checking & opening my mail,
opening any boxes or packages I may receive.
Sorry for such long list, just wanted you all to get a good idea of how
much work these girls do. Thanks!
Dan G.
quadz...@optonline.net
