Did you know Minnesota has different levels of licensure for Home Care?

Home Management Registration

Any person may perform services that are not listed in Home Health Aide (Class A) or Home Care Aide (Class B). Home Management personnel may provide housekeeping, meal preparation and shopping.

Class B Licensure

(Home Care Aide) May perform the following services for clients:

  1. Preparing modified diets, such as diabetic or low sodium diets
  2. Reminding clients to take regularly scheduled medications or perform exercise
  3. Household chores in the presence of technically sophisticated medical equipment or episodes of acute illness or infections disease
  4. Household chores when the client’s care requires the prevention of exposure to infectious disease or containment of infectious disease
  5. Assisting with dressing, oral hygiene, hair care, grooming and bathing, if the client is ambulatory, and if the client has no serious acute illness or infectious disease. Oral hygiene means care of teeth, gums, and oral prosthetic devices.

Class A Licensure

(Home Health Aide) A registered nurse may delegate medical or nursing services as tasks or a therapist may assist therapy services. These tasks include:

  1. Administration of medications
  2. Performing routine delegated medical or nursing or assigned therapy procedures
  3. Assisting with body positioning or transfers of clients who are ambulatory or not ambulatory
  4. Feeding of clients who, because of their condition, are at risk of choking
  5. Assistance with bowel and bladder control, devices, and training programs
  6. Assistance with therapeutic or passive range of motion exercises
  7. Providing skin care, including full or partial bathing and foot soaks
  8. During episodes of serious illness or acute illness, providing services performed for a client or to assist a client to maintain the hygiene of the client’s body and immediate environment, to satisfy nutritional needs, and to assist with the client’s mobility, including movement, change of location, and positioning and bathing, oral hygiene, dressing, hair care, toileting, bedding changes, basic housekeeping, and meal preparation.  Oral hygiene means care of teeth, gums, and oral prosthetic devices.

Taken from Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes, Minnesota Rules, Chapter 4668

Tasks

Home Management Registration

Class B Licensure

Class A Licensure

Shopping

X

X

X

Light housekeeping

X

X

X

Meal preparation

X

X

X

Assist ambulatory client

 

X

X

Assist non-ambulatory client

 

 

X

Assist during wellness

 

X

X

Assist during illness

 

 

X

Medication reminders

 

X

X

Medication administration(oral, eye, topical, inhaled)

 

 

X

Remind to complete exercises

 

X

X

Assist with exercises/passive range of motion

 

 

X

Use mechanical lifts

 

 

X

Assist with transfers

 

 

X

Assist with compression hose

 

X

X

Apply Ace wraps

 

 

X

Provide catheter care/ostomy care

 

 

X

Use of glucometers

 

 

X

Nurse supervision

 

(X)

X

14 day nurse supervision

 

 

X

60 day nurse supervision

 

 

X

(X) Denotes some Class B agencies choose to have Nurse Supervision

Living Life Home Care is a local, family owned and operated, Class A home care agency, with over 65 years combined experience providing care to Seniors. We offer a wide range of services to fit your needs, whether it is once a week or 24-hours a day.

When you choose Living Life Home Care for your home care needs, you can experience peace of mind and confidence in knowing you are receiving the highest quality of care. Our hiring and training standards exceed the state regulations. We have had 100% client satisfaction. 

Be sure to ask us about our free monthly RN visits.