Description
Provide in-home personal care and basic health support to clients with illness or disabilities under offsite or intermittent onsite supervision of licensed nursing staff. Monitor health status; assist with bathing, toileting, dressing, feeding, and ambulation; perform simple tasks such as vital signs, dressing changes, and medication reminders or administration as permitted; and help with meal preparation, light housekeeping, and laundry.
- • Perform errands and obtain household supplies as requested.
- • Maintain records of care, observations, and changes to report to the supervising nurse or case manager.
- • Assist clients with transfers and mobility in beds, baths, wheelchairs, and vehicles.
- • Help with dressing, grooming, toileting, and other personal hygiene.
- • Provide emotional support and basic instruction on healthy routines and independent living.
- • Converse, read, or engage clients in activities to support mental alertness.
- • Plan, prepare, and serve meals per prescribed diets; shop for groceries as needed.
- • Assist with simple prescribed exercises and the use of braces or prosthetics as directed.
- • Check and record vital signs and perform basic skin care and dressing changes as directed.
- • Accompany clients to medical appointments and community outings, providing assistance and companionship.
- • Care for children with disabilities or whose parents are ill or disabled.
- • Provide light massage or apply topical treatments or heat per the care plan.
- • Make beds, change linens, do laundry, and tidy living areas.
- • Administer or remind clients to take prescribed oral medications per written orders and state regulations.
- • Bathe clients safely.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
