216.935 Definitions for KRS 216.935 to 216.939.
As used in KRS 216.935 to 216.939, unless the context requires otherwise:
(1) "Home health aide" means an individual who is hired to perform home health aide
services.
(2) "Home health agency" means a public agency or private organization, or a
subdivision of such an agency or organization which is licensed as a home health
agency by the Kentucky Health Facilities and Health Services Certificate of Need
and Licensure Board and is certified to participate as a home health agency under
Title XVIII of the Social Security Act.
(3) "Home health aide services" means those services provided by a home health aide
and supervised by a registered nurse which are directed towards the personal care of
the patient. Such services shall include, but not be limited to, the following:
(a) Helping the patient with bath and care of mouth, skin, and hair;
(b) Helping the patient to the bathroom or in using a bedpan;
(c) Helping the patient in and out of bed and assisting with ambulation;
(d) Helping the patient with prescribed exercises which the patient and home
health aide have been taught by appropriate professional personnel;
(e) Assisting with medication ordinarily self-administered that has been
specifically ordered by a physician or advanced practice registered nurse;
(f) Performing incidental household services as are essential to the patient's
health care at home, if these services would have been performed if the patient
was in a hospital or skilled nursing facility; and
(g) Reporting changes in the patient's condition or family situation to the
professional nurse supervisor.
(4) "Nurse aide" means an individual, including a nursing student, medication aide, and
a person employed through a nursing pool, who provides nursing or nursing related
services to a resident in a nursing facility or home health agency, excluding:
(a) An individual who is a licensed health professional;
(b) A volunteer who provides the nursing or nursing-related services without
monetary compensation; and
(c) A person who is hired by the resident or family to sit with the resident and
who does not perform nursing or nursing-related services.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 76, effective July 15, 2010. -- Created
2000 Ky. Acts ch. 471, sec. 1, effective July 14, 2000.
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