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Nothing per oral (NPO)
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Nothing by mouth includes food, drinks, and medications
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Partial Bath
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Bathing certain areas of recipient vs whole body
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Personal Care
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Services provided by medicaid provider agency to assist recipient with activities of daily living.
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Personal care aide (PCA)
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Someone who has passed the training program and has emphasis on how to provide personal care to recipients in the home environment.
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Plan of Care (POC)
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Activities and services recipient needs. form used by provider agency to set a plan for number of hours, days of week, and tasks PCA needs to assist with.
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Respite Care
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Service provide to the live-in primary caregiver, to give relief to them in 24 hour responsibility of care.
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Recipient
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Person who meets Virginia Medicaid eligibility criteria requirements and is receiving or has received medicaid services.
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Supervision
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Someone who is unable to call for help, has a blocked of time for a PCA to be with recipient to ensure their safety
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Toileting
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Process of getting recipient to and from bathroom, helping on and off toilet if needed, whipping recipient and adjusting clothes.
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Transferring
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Process of moving between , chair, wheelchair, and/ stretcher.
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Universal (standard) precautions
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Technique of protecting ones self from the spread of infectious diseases.
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Urination
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Physical process of emptying urine from bladder
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Vital signs
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Blood pressure, pules, temperature, and respirations (BP, T, P, R)
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Activities of daily living (ADL)
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Personal care tasks such as bathing, dressing, toileting, eating, and ambulating.
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Bathing
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Process of washing body/ body parts. be it in bath tub, in bed, or shower.
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