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This home health aide training handbook includes all the tools to implement a comprehensive, competency-based orientation and training program for home health aides and personal care assistants. The handbook is designed for easy reading and loaded with photos and illustrations to reinforce learning. It emphasizes the role of the home health aide as an important part of the patient's care team in a home health or hospice agency. It explains in detail the scope of practice of a home health aide and addresses the rule and regulation that the home health aide must be familiar with. This handbook will equip home health aides to be caring, dedicated, and skilled professionals.