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Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 245.71 - Qualifications and Requirements for Home Services Workers
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What this rule requires your agency to do
- 1The provider (home services agency) must train each home services worker to perform personal care tasks for clients, and the permitted scope of the worker's medication role is limited to medication reminding. (77 Ill. Adm. Code 245.71(e))(Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 245.71 - Qualifications and Requirements for Home Services Workers)
- 2The provider must ensure home services workers receive ongoing/annual training addressing hygiene and infection control and activities of daily living (e.g., ambulation, bathing, feeding, positioning, transfers, oxygen delivery systems, application of prescription shampoo). (77 Ill. Adm. Code 245.71(f))(Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 245.71 - Qualifications and Requirements for Home Services Workers)
- 3The provider must include in the worker's initial training instruction on basic hygiene and basic infection prevention and control practices and on maintaining a clean, safe, and healthy environment. (77 Ill. Adm. Code 245.71(e))(Ill. Admin. Code tit. 77, § 245.71 - Qualifications and Requirements for Home Services Workers)
Applies to: personal care / home services (home services workers a.k.a. personal care aides)
Under Illinois' Home Health, Home Services, and Home Nursing Agency Code, home services workers (personal care aides) are limited in their medication role to "medication reminding" as one of the personal care tasks they are trained to perform; the rule does not authorize aides to administer or assist with self-administration beyond reminding. Section 245.71 sets the training obligations the licensed home services agency must meet before and during a worker's employment.
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