title: Street smarts. Guidelines to safety for home care aides.
abstract: Home care aides--perhaps more than professionals--have to take a number of precautions to stay safe on the job. Part of the responsibility for keeping them safe falls to the agency that employs them. But a good deal of the responsibility is up to the individuals themselves. There's a lot the street smart home care aide can do to ensure his or her own safety on the job.
authors.affiliation: Visiting Nurse Association of Greater Philadelphia, PA, USA.
authors.forename: H W
authors.initials: HW
authors.lastname: Myers
mesh_terms: D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000592:standards*; D007318:Inservice Training; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D016272:Occupational Health; D014186:Transportation; D014481:United States; D014489:United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration