State Registered Nurse Aide/HHA Salary in the United States

Demanded Skills for the Role:

• Accountability (Mentioned in 3.62% Job Postings): Setting and holding oneself and others to stated expectations by associating tasks with our business's mission, values, and goals.
• Long Term Care (Mentioned in 3.73% Job Postings): Long-term care (LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet patients' needs over a period of time. It is common for long-term care to provide custodial and non-skilled care, such as assisting with normal daily tasks like dressing, feeding, using the bathroom. Increasingly, long-term care involves providing a level of medical care that requires the expertise of skilled practitioners to address the multiple chronic conditions associated with older populations. Long-term care can be provided at home, in the community, in assisted living facilities or in nursing homes. Long-term care may be needed by people of any age, although it is a more common need for senior citizens.
• Assisted Living (Mentioned in 2.05% Job Postings): Assisted living exemplifies the shift from "care as service" to "care as business" in the broader health care arena predicted more than three decades ago. A consumer-driven industry, assisted living offers a wide range of options, levels of care, and diversity of services (Lockhart, 2009) and is subject to state rather than federal regulatory oversight. "Assisted living" means depends on both the state and provider in question: variations in state regulatory definitions are significant and provider variables include everything from philosophy, geographic location and auspice, to organizational size and structure.

Mastering certain specialized skills can lead to a significant increase in pay. Here are examples of skills and the potential impact they can have on a State Registered Nurse Aide/HHA's salary.

• Commitment: Can increase your salary by up to 27%.
• Assisted Living: Can increase your salary by up to 12%.
• Problem Solving: Can increase your salary by up to 6%.