New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 13 - LAW AND PUBLIC SAFETY
Chapter 37 - NEW JERSEY BOARD OF NURSING
Subchapter 14 - HOMEMAKER-HOME HEALTH AIDES
Section 13:37-14.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.

"Activities of daily living" means the functions or tasks for self-care, which are performed either independently or with supervision or assistance. Activities of daily living include mobility, transferring, walking, grooming, bathing, dressing, undressing, eating, and toileting.

"Board" means the Board of Nursing.

"CHHA" means a certified homemaker-home health aide who is employed by a home care services agency and who, under supervision of a registered professional nurse, follows a delegated nursing regimen or performs tasks that are delegated .

"Community health nursing" means professional nursing practice emphasizing health promotion, health maintenance, primary prevention, health education and management, coordination of health care services, and continuity of care for individuals, families, and groups in the community. "Community health nursing" includes home visits to assess, plan for, and provide nursing services; health guidance and direct care; and coordination of services with community resources, families, and other health professionals and paraprofessionals.

"Full-time" means that a person has worked at least 1,820 hours in a year.

"Home care services agency" means home health agencies, assisted living residences, comprehensive personal care homes, assisted living programs, or alternate family care sponsor agencies licensed by the Department of Health pursuant to P.L. 1971, c. 136 (N.J.S.A. 26:2H-1 et seq.), nonprofit homemaker-home health aide agencies, and health care service firms regulated by the Division of Consumer Affairs pursuant to P.L. 1989, c. 331 (N.J.S.A. 34:8-43 et seq.) and P.L. 1960, c. 39 (N.J.S.A. 56:8-1 et seq.), which are engaged in the business of procuring or offering to procure employment for homemaker-home health aides, where a fee may be exacted, charged, or received directly or indirectly for procuring or offering to procure that employment.

"Home-making activities" means the functions and tasks that a CHHA may be asked to perform by the patient, the patient's family, or a delegating registered professional nurse that are necessary to provide the patient with an appropriate therapeutic environment and comfort at home, including shopping, errands, laundry, meal planning and preparation, including therapeutic diets, serving of meals, and child care.

" Part-time" means that a person has worked at least 1,040 hours in a year, but has not worked enough hours to qualify as "full-time."

"Program coordinator" means the nurse responsible for the training program curriculum.