Tasks Required Competencies
Home Management
· Pay bills as directed by client Communication Skills
· Provide transportation for
· Methods of communication medical appointments and shopping
· Maintaining control
· Clean and care for clothing:
· Observing, documenting and ironing, simple mending, reporting laundering
· Confidentiality
· Do basic housekeeping tasks: sweeping, vacuuming, dusting, Mental Health and Illness mopping, dishes
· Characteristics of good
· Make minor repairs to house and mental health furnishings
· Personality differences
· Make un-occupied bed
· Recognize and report changes in Family Dynamics health and environment
· Cultural and Ethnic Life-
· Identify medications for client styles
· Provide companionship and
· Role of families in emotional support meeting individual needs
· Prepare simple meals
· Shop for food from verbal or Home Management Skills written instruction
· Maintaining a clean and
· Observe and report symptoms of safe environment abuse, neglect, and illness to
· Basic housekeeping proper professional
· Shopping
· Clothing care and repair
· Paying bills Food and Nutrition
· Role of nutrition in promoting good health
· Balanced meal preparation and food handling and storage Disabled Adults
· Life long aging process
· Disabled persons as individuals
· Specific needs of older persons Understanding Basic Human Needs
· Physical and psychological needs
· Needs hierarchy
· Client and Patient Rights Medications
· Retrieve and identify medications for client
· Do's and don'ts of medication Responding to Emergencies
· Fire
· Personal injury and sickness
· Observe and report systems of abuse, neglect, exploitation, illness, or unsafe environment to proper professionals
· Other dangers Personal Hygiene (worker)
· Expectations regarding cleanliness, odors, smoking Safety Measures
· Household safety tips
· Body mechanics for aides
· Transporting of client Inappropriate Tasks
· Personal care
· Deviation from care plan
· Other inappropriate tasks
Tasks Required Competencies
Home Management
Communication Skills
· Assist in following budget
· Roles of the service prepared by case manager delivery team
· Assist to find and use
· Plan of care community resources
· Report writing
· Perform reading and writing tasks Mental Health and Illness
· Demonstrate and model simple
· Effects of stress altering and mending techniques
· Defense mechanisms
· Demonstrate and model
· Dementia housekeeping
· Assist in organizing household Family Dynamics routines
· Family life cycle
· Assist in making or purchasing
· Issues at each stage of life clothing or other household items
· Effects of disruption
· Plan menus using food guide
· Assist with developing a market Home Management Skills order and shopping
· Housekeeping techniques
· Demonstrate and model food and routines handling, preparation and storage
· Demonstrating and modeling homemaking tasks
Personal Care
· Working within a budget
· Clothing and household
· Assist ambulatory client with supply purchasing mobility and toileting
· Knowledge and use of
· Provide care for normal, community resources unbroken skin
· Assist with personal hygiene, Food and Nutrition (mouth care, hair and scalp
· Planning menus from a food grooming, fingernails and guide bathing; shower, tub, bed, basin)
· Developing a market order Cut and trim hair
· Principles of food
· Shave client (electric and preparation safety razor)
· Following a prescribed
· Provide basic first aid diet
· Apply ace bandages, TED's, binders (demonstrated competency Ill and Disabled Adults verified by R.N.)
· Diseases of the elderly
· Make occupied bed
· Coping with chronic
· Assist limited function patient illness with dressing
· Observe, record and report Special Care Skills self-administered medications
· Assist with feeding
· Apply and remove prosthetic clients with special devices for stable clients conditions (excluding (demonstrated competency verified swallowing difficulties) by R.N.)
· Application of ace
· Assist with feeding clients with bandage, TED's, binders special conditions (no swallowing
· Assist and encourage difficulties) physical activity and
· Assist and encourage physical prescribed exercise activity and prescribed exercise
· Assist ambulatory client
· Assist client with self- with mobility and toileting monitoring of temperature, pulse,
· Assist limited function blood pressure and weight client with dressing (demonstrated competency verified
· Making occupied bed by R.N.)
· Assist with application and removal of prosthetic devices Personal Hygiene (client)
· Assist with bathing (bed, tub, shower, basin)
· Assist with mouth care
· Assist with hair and scalp grooming (cut and trim hair)
· Assist with fingernail care (clean and file)
· Shaving clients (electric and safety razor)
· Normal skin care Medications
· Reminding and reinforcing self-administered medications
· Observe, report, record self-administered medications Abuse and Neglect
· Recognizing and reporting criteria (age specific) Infection Control
· Preventing the spread of diseases
· Hand washing techniques Basic First Aid
· Principles of cardio- pulmonary Resuscitation
· Taking temperature, pulse, height and weight
· Taking blood pressure Inappropriate Tasks
Tasks Required Competencies
Home Management
Communication Skills
· Demonstrate securing and caring
· Promoting client for household furnishing independence
· Teach basic sewing and use of
· Strategies for guiding, sewing machine supporting, and encouraging
· Demonstrate how to plan for a
· Medical terminology move, locate housing, and organize
· Documentation moving activities
· Teach and reinforce house- Mental Health and Illness keeping methods, home safety,
· Substance abuse energy conservation, and
· Mental retardation sanitation skills
· Types of mental disorders
· Teach and reinforce personal hygiene and self care, reinforce Principles of Adult Education sound health care practices, and
· How Adults Learn personal safety techniques
· "Let's Do" teaching
· Take and accompany to medical appointments; reinforce special Food and Nutrition diet routines; monitor treatment · Comparison Shopping plans
· Principles of therapeutic
· Teach and reinforce household (specialized) diets budgeting and planning skills;
· Purchasing, planning and teach proper use of credit preparing therapeutic
· Demonstrate and reinforce (specialized) diets comparison shopping and good
· Observing dietary consumer practices with food, treatment plans clothing and furnishings
· Teach and reinforce management Infection Control of time and resources, including
· Isolation techniques work simplification techniques
· Universal precautions
· Teach and reinforce appropriate
· Application in the home food handling and cooking skills
· Monitor and reinforce family Death and Dying progress on protective service plan goals
Personal Care Track
Personal Care
Personal Hygiene
· Bed bath (Tasks subject to nurse
· Shampoo in bed supervision requirements of the
· Shave client with skin Nursing Practice Act.) disorders
· Assist with feeding clients
· Trim toenails (no diabetes or with special conditions peripheral vascular disease)
· Give bed bath
· Perineal and catheter care
· Make occupied bed
· Assist with mobility, gait Treatment Techniques training using assistive devices
· Assist with feeding
· Assist with range of clients with special motion exercises conditions
· Assist limited function patient
· Force and restrict fluids with dressing
· Care of non-infected skin
· Take and record temperature, ulcers pulse, blood pressure, height and
· Clean dressing changes weight, respirations (non-sterile)
· Observe, record and report
· Vaginal douches self-administered medications
· Apply prescribed heat and
· Apply and remove prosthetic cold devices for stable client
· Assist client in
· Apply ace bandages, TED's, understanding medical orders binders and routines, encourage
· Assist with scalp care compliance
· Trim toenails for clients
· Intake and output without diabetes or peripheral
· Take respirations vascular disease
· Empty and record drainage of Elimination and Treatment catheter bag
· Empty and record drainage of
· Shave clients with skin catheter bag disorders
· Bowel and bladder retraining
· Administer enemas
· Collect and test urine or
· Insert rectal tubes and flatus fecal specimens bags
· Insert rectal tube and
· Bowel and bladder retraining flatus bag
· Collect and test urine or fecal
· Apply condom catheters specimens
· Administer enemas
· Perineal care
· Use of bedpans and urinals
· Apply condom catheters
· Chair and stretcher transfer Other Training Techniques
· Turn and position
· Apply and remove EKG
· Safety measures (side rails, monitor leads mitts, restraints)
· Post mortem care
· Change non-sterile dressings
· Gastric suction
· Force and restrict fluids (maintenance)
· Apply prescribed heat and cold
· Turn, cough and deep breath
· Care for non-infected decubitus
· Restorative services ulcers
· Assist clients in understanding Body Mechanics medical orders and routines,
· Transfer techniques encourage compliance
· Use of lifts
· Assist with purchase and
· Assistive devices preparation of diet food specified
· Assist with prescribed by professional physical and occupational
· Vaginal douches after therapy instruction
· Assist with prescribed physical Safety Measures and occupational therapy
· Side rails, mitts
· Plan menus for special diets restriants
· Monitor dietary treatment plan, provide feedback to professional Basic First Aid
· Cardiopulmonary Tasks With Special Training Resuscitation (Requires Nurse Aide II registration with the NC Board Home Management Track of Nursing)
· Administer gastrostomy tube Home Management Skills feedings
· Teaching housekeeping skills
· Perform in and out bladder
· Planning and organizing catheterizations moving activities
· Change sterile dressings
· Energy conservation
· Basic mending and sewing and use of sewing machine
· Home safety skills Financial Management
· Setting family goals
· Developing a family budget
· Making good budgeting and spending choices
· Use of credit
· Consumer protection practices Resource Management
· Securing and caring for household furnishings
· Teaching management of time and resources
· Locating housing
· Work simplification techniques Self Care
· Personal hygiene and health care practices
· Personal safety techniques
· Following treatment plans Family Dynamics
· Understanding dysfunction in families
· Impact of substance abuse
· Reinforce new skills and patterns
in poorly functioning families
Tasks Required Competencies
Home Management
Family Dynamics
· Provide supervision and role
· Characteristics and modeling of appropriate care and interventions for multi supervision when family is problem families available but unable to perform
· Impact of loss, separation caretaker duties due to physical
· Family violence or emotional illness (under close
· Confrontation skills case supervision by social worker)
· Principles of adult ! Implement strategies developed learning on social work plan including arranging transportation, housing Home Management Skills and other auxiliary services
· Planning moves (under close case supervision by
· Understanding eviction social worker) procedures
· Demonstrate management of food
· Elimination of household resources and menu planning (under safety hazards relevant to close case supervision by social client functioning worker)
· Provide case tracking and follow Protective Services up to social work staff by
· Legal base and liability observing families in home
· Factors of increased risk environment for abuse or neglect
· Assist professionals in
· Indicators of mental and establishing and maintaining emotional functioning various client groups
· Provide tracking of household budgets with clients
· Identify indicators of risks to families and appropriately report to social worker
10A N.C. Admin. Code 06A .0305
Eff. December 1, 1991;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. September 6, 2016.
Eff. December 1, 1991.