Personal Care Workers Job Description
The personal care worker shall be assigned by the supervising registered nurse to specific recipients to do specific tasks for those recipients for which the personal care worker has been trained. The personal care worker’s training for these specific tasks shall be assured by the supervising registered nurse. The personal care worker is limited to performing only those tasks and services as assigned for each recipient and for which he or she has been specifically trained.
Covered personal care services include:
- Assistance with bathing
- Assistance with getting in and out of bed
- Teeth, mouth, denture, and hair care
- Assistance with mobility and ambulation including use of walker, cane, or crutches
- Changing the recipient’s bed and laundering the bed linens and the recipient’s personal clothing
- Skin care excluding wound care
- Care of eyeglasses and hearing aids
- Assistance with dressing and undressing
- Toileting, including use and care of bedpan, urinal, commode, or toilet
- Light cleaning in essential areas of the home used during personal care service activities
- Meal preparation, food purchasing, and meal serving
- Simple transfers, including bed to chair or wheelchair and reverse (continued)
- Accompanying the recipient to obtain medical diagnosis and treatment
- Services – prior authorization
- Delegated tasks by RN
