15 Miss. Code. R. 16-1-46.38.2 - Responsibilities of the Home Health Aide

Responsibilities of the home health aide shall include but not be limited to the following:

1. The home health aide shall perform only those personal care activities contained in written assignment by a health professional employee which include assisting the patient with personal hygiene, ambulation, eating, dressing and shaving.

2. The home health aide may perform other activities as taught by a health professional employee for a specific patient. These include, but are not limited to: shampoo, reinforcement of a dressing, assisting with the use of devices for aide to daily living (walker, wheelchair), assisting with prescribed range of motion exercises which the home health aide and the patient have been taught by a health professional employee, doing simple urine tests for sugar, acetone or albumin, measuring and preparing special diets, intake an output.

3. The home health aide shall not be allowed to perform the following and other procedures requiring skilled services: Change sterile dressings, irrigate body cavities such as a colostomy or wound, perform a gastric lavage or gavage, decubitus care, catheterize a patient, administer medications, apply heat by any method, care for a tracheotomy tube, or any personal health service which has not been included by the professional nurse in the aide assignment sheet.

4. The home health aide shall keep records of personal health care activities.

5. The home health aide shall observe appearance and behavioral changes in the patient and report to the professional nurse.

6. The home health aide patient services shall be evaluated by a health professional at least every other week, with the aide alternately present and absent, in the home for those patients receiving skilled services. When only home health aide services are being furnished to a patient, a registered nurse must make a supervisory visit to the patient's residence at least once every 60 days. This supervisory visit must occur while the aide is furnishing patient care.

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15 Miss. Code. R. 16-1-46.38.2

Miss. Code Ann. § 41-71-13