Nursing Assignment to Unlicensed Personnel and Proxy Caregivers
Sets out when an Agency RN may assign a task to a home health aide or other unlicensed person under the Georgia Board of Nursing standard (no complex observations or critical decisions, exact unchanging directions, predictable outcome), how the RN checks the aide’s skills and keeps watch, what can never be assigned, and why the Agency does not use the Georgia proxy caregiver route.
About this policy
- Policy number
- GA-HH-DEL-01
- Version
- 1.0
- Main rule
- Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 410-10-.01
- Library
- Georgia home health · 56 policies
- Category
- Clinical tasks
- Sections
- 17
In short
- An RN can give an aide a task only if it needs no complex observations or critical decisions, follows exact unchanging steps, and has a predictable result.
- The RN checks that the aide knows how to do the task before the aide does it.
- Aides never give injections, do sterile procedures, or decide what to do with a test result.
- If the patient or the task changes, stop and call the RN.
- You may refuse a task you are not trained to do. Tell the RN.
What's inside
17 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- Terms of Reference
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Policy Statement (Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 410-10-.01(2)(c))
- 5. Deciding Whether a Task Can Be Assigned
- 6. Tasks That Are Never Assigned
- 7. Watching and Re-evaluating Assigned Care
- 8. What the Board Treats as Unprofessional Delegation
- 9. Proxy Caregivers
- 10. Responsibilities
- 11. Records and Compliance Monitoring
- 12. Staff Training
- 13. References
- 14. Related Policies and Forms
- 15. Approval
- 16. Revision History
An inspector may ask
- How does a nurse decide whether a task can be given to an aide?
- Show me the assignment record for this task and this aide.
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