What is the role of the direct service worker? Are there any restrictions?
Waiver services are to be delivered for the direct care and benefit of the waiver individual. The direct service worker cannot engage in activities that benefit self, their family or friends or the waiver individual’s family or friends. Example: • The direct service worker cannot conduct his or her own personal business (counted as community integration, socialization, habilitation). • The direct service worker cannot assist the Waiver individual’s family or friends. Such assistance would include: transporting the family and/or friends to keep appointments or to go shopping, cleaning house, washing dishes or laundry, taking out trash or babysitting family members. • The direct service worker is not to administer medication or perform other medical related procedures that are in violation of the Nurse Practitioners Act. The direct service worker may supervise the self-administration of medication, but cannot administer or fill medication minders. • The direct service staff cannot partic
