General
What is home care?
Home care is non-medical caregiving and assistance provided in the client’s home.
What is a Caregiver?
Is the person that provides essential and important daily support and comfort to patients.
Mention all type of services
Multiple services
Mutual Visit
Linked visit
Mention 4 Different time of service
Hourly
24-hour care
live-in case
Visit
Who's Eligible?
People with conditions such as:
Intermittent skilled nursing care
Physical therapy
You must be homebound, and a doctor must certify that you're
homebound.
Mention 5 Caregiver duties
Bathing
Dressing
Toileting
feeding
Exercise as needed
What are Multiple services?
A Visit that consists of several different billable services
What is 24-hour care?
This level of care and service is when a home health professional is awake and ready to attend to a patient's needs 24 hours a day. This level of care requires multiple shifts by care providers over the 24-hour period.
who pays for home care services?
Insurance company
Mention 3 different Caregiver
PA (Personal assistant-Aide)
PCA (Personal Care Assistant)
LPN (Licensed Practical Nurse)
What is a Mutual visit?
Is a visit in which Caregivers provide service to two Patients at once. Mutual visits may be scheduled at the same time without triggering validation issues.
What is Live-in case?
A 24-hour visit in which the Caregiver remains at the patient’s residence overnight. Often, Live-in visits are scheduled back-to-back with a single caregiver. Care can be provided 24 hours a day, seven days a week. A live-in caregiver must be able to have eight hours of uninterrupted sleep, in the contract.
What is HIPAA?
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) is a federal law that required the creation of national standards to protect sensitive patient health information from being disclosed without the patient's consent or knowledge.
What is an RN (Registered Nurse) and what are her or his duties?
A RN is a clinician with a nursing degree who has passed a licensing exam. RN roles may include direct patient care in inpatient and outpatient settings and also administrative functions and quality assurance. They are often in charge of monitoring patients, taking vital signs, administering medications, documenting the patients’ history and more.
What is a Linked visit?
Is a visit in which Caregivers provide service to two Patients at once. Linked Visits are typically scheduled as back-to-back Visits. The Caregiver need only Clock In at the beginning of the First Visit, and Clock Out at the end of the second.
What is Visit?
A visit is when the health professional, aide, or nurse, comes into a patient's home or residence and performs certain specific tasks or duties. A visit can last up to an hour but is defined, time-wise, by the completion of the required duties. When the tasks have been performed and completed, the visit is over.