Assisting patients with their daily living activities help prevent falls and other harm to patients, while also offering companionship as tasks are met. 

Assist a client with positioning when the client is able to identify to the personal care staff, either verbally, non-verbally or through others, when the position needs to be changed, only when skilled skin care, as previously described, is not required in conjunction with the positioning. Positioning may include simple alignment in a bed, wheelchair, or other furniture.

Running errands for patients to help avoid stressful and crowded environments.

Meal Preparation means choosing foods that will be the most helpful in controlling your diet. It also means knowing how much of and when to eat those foods. There are several ways you can plan your meals to make sure you’re getting the right foods, in the right amounts, every day.

Keeping your home clean and tidy helps prevent potential falls. It also removes the risk of harm if done alone.

Preventative general skin care. When skin is unbroken, and when any chronic skin problems are not active and may include the application of non-medicated lotions and solutions. Or of lotions and solutions not requiring a physician’s prescription.

Assist a client to/from the bathroom; provide assistance with bed pans, urinals, and commodes; provide pericare; or change clothing and pads of any kind used for the care of incontinence.

1. A home services worker may empty or change external urine collection devices, such as catheter bags or suprapubic catheter
2. A home services worker may empty ostomy bags and provide assistance with other client­ directed ostomy care only when there is no need for skilled skin care or for observation or reporting to a nurse.

Taking clients from home and helping them meet appointments.

Assistance with feeding. When the client can independently swallow and be positioned upright.

Companionship care is a form of home care offering non-medical services to older adults or people with disabilities. Companionship care differs from personal care in that personal care aides. 

Assist a client with medication management only when medications have been pre-selected by the client, a family member, a nurse, or a pharmacist and are stored in containers other than the prescription bottles, such as medication minders. Medication minder containers shall be clearly marked as to day and time of dosage.

Medication management includes: inquiries as to whether medications were taken; verbal prompting to take medications; handing the appropriately marked medication minder container to the client; and opening the appropriately marked medication minder container for the client if the client is physically unable to open the container. These limitations apply to all prescription and all over-the-counter medications. The home services worker shall immediately report to the supervisor any irregularities noted in the pre-selected medications, such as medications taken too often or not often enough, or not at the correct time as identified in the written instructions.

Respite care provides temporary relief for a primary caregiver, enabling you to take a much-needed break from the demands of caregiving a sick, aging, or disabled family member. … Respite care can benefit the person you’re caring for, too, providing them with variety, stimulation, and a welcome change of routine.

Preoperative care: Care given before surgery when physical and psychological preparations are made for the operation, according to the individual needs of the patient. The preoperative period runs from the time the patient is admitted to the hospital or surgicenter to the time that the surgery begins.

Postoperative care: is the care you receive after a surgical procedure. The type of postoperative care you need depends on the type of surgery you have, as well as your health history. It often includes pain management and wound care.  Postoperative care begins immediately after surgery