New Jersey's two aide credentials cover different ground. The homemaker-home health aide certificate is good across every employer the Board of Nursing counts as a home care agency. Medications take a second one, from the Department of Health, and that one names the settings it covers.

Median Healthcare Salaryin New Jersey

10%$17.92/hr

median$23.75/hr

90%$76.00/hr

Top Median Salary by Rolein New Jersey

Physician$125.00/hr
Nurse Practitioner$70.75/hr
Pharmacist$60.00/hr
Pharmacy Intern$23.75/hr
Veterinary Technician$23.50/hr

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What counts as a home care services agency

N.J.A.C. 13:37-14.2 defines the holder by employment: an aide employed by a home care services agency who, under a registered nurse's supervision, follows a delegated nursing regimen or performs delegated tasks. The list behind that phrase runs to home health agencies, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, assisted living programs, alternate family care sponsor agencies, nonprofit homemaker-home health aide agencies and health care service firms, so the certificate is good well beyond private homes. Our guide to becoming a personal care assistant works through the training itself.

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Your questions about healthcare jobs in New Jersey, answered

What do New Jersey postings mean by CHHA?: They mean the state's own certificate, spelled out as certified homemaker-home health aide. It's New Jersey vocabulary for a credential the state's Board of Nursing issues under its own rules. A posting that spells the title out is home health aide work, and it belongs on the New Jersey home health aide page.
Can I earn the CHHA certificate online?: The clinical instruction can't be. N.J.A.C. 13:37-14.4 splits the program into classroom hours and clinical hours and puts the clinical ones in a skills laboratory or a patient care setting, so that portion happens in person. About the classroom hours 13:37-14.4 says nothing at all, in either direction. The Board of Nursing also approves the programs themselves, under 13:37-14.6, so a course that isn't on its list leaves you with hours and no certificate.
Can an aide certificate let me give medications in New Jersey?: You would need a second one, and it stacks on a certificate you already hold. N.J.A.C. 8:36-9.2 takes applicants certified as a nurse aide, a homemaker-home health aide or a personal care assistant, and the Department of Health rule reaches assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes and assisted living programs. On top of that come an approved medication administration course and a standardized written exam, which the rule says an oral examination can't substitute for. The certificate runs two years, and renewing it takes at least 10 hours of continuing education.