
What is Private Duty?
Applegate is pleased to offer private duty wherever you call home. Private duty is a personal care service that fosters independence and comfort. Under a nurse’s supervision, a Certified Nursing Assistant (C.N.A.) helps the individual with personal cares and/or light housekeeping.
Specific Private Duty Services We Provide
- Complete functional assessment
- Prepare an aide care plan
- Review all medication orders
- Review whether insurance options are available
- Light housekeeping
- Laundry
- Bed making
- Companionship
- Remind patient to take medication as needed.
- Assistance with dressing/hair/lotion to skin included
- Bathing & showering assistance
- Bed Bath
- Transfers
- Personal grooming
- Dressing
- Assistance with eating
- Meal preparation
- Oral care
- Toilet hygiene
- Taking/recording temperature and weight
- Assistance with compression socks/wraps