Healthcare Jobs in Georgia

It can give insulin, epinephrine and B12, under a physician's direction and protocol. The assisted living rule lists 7 authorized tasks in total, and the other 6 stay clear of a needle: physician-ordered oral, feeding tube, eye, topical, ear, nasal, vaginal and rectal medications; a metered dose inhaler; finger stick blood glucose testing; a commercially prepared disposable enema; supervising a resident taking their own medication; and liquid morphine for a resident who is a hospice patient, which needs the hospice physician's written order naming indication, dosage, frequency and route.

The personal care home rule names 4 kinds of person who can. A proxy caregiver trained under the state's proxy caregiver chapter, a registered nurse, a licensed practical nurse working under a physician's or registered nurse's supervision, and a certified medication aide who meets the conditions the rule attaches below that list. An aide working in the memory care center may also assist residents outside it in the same building.

A person trained under Georgia's proxy caregiver chapter may perform what the rules call health maintenance activities, meaning things someone could reasonably be expected to do for themselves but for a disability. The chapter excludes complex care such as intravenous medications, central line maintenance and complex wound care, along with anything needing complex observation or a critical decision. What's left has to be safely performable, come with reasonably precise and unchanging directions, and have reasonably predictable outcomes. The rule then says these activities are not the practice of nursing, and that sentence is why a Georgia caregiver can hold the work without a nursing credential.