title: Delegation. Creating a balance among home care, the disability community, regulators, and payors.
abstract: Can the disability and the home care communities come together on the best way to provide client-centered home care with an appropriate balance between patient choice and provider liability? Should nurses be responsible and liable for all nursing tasks provided in home settings? Or are there some tasks--such as medication administration skin care, and even ventilator administration--that can safely be performed by non-nurses? And if tasks can legally be performed by non-nurses, what is necessary to ensure that tasks are done safely?
authors: National Institute on Consumer Directed Long-Term Services, Washington, DC, USA.
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mesh_terms: D002983:Clinical Competence; D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000592:standards; D006233:Persons with Disabilities; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards; D018576:Home Health Aides / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D016365:Liability, Legal; D008004:Licensure; D010358:Patient Participation; D014481:United States; D000078329:Workforce