Document ID: chunk:federal_register_of_legislation:F2024C00843:clause:1_3:p1
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3  Other care and services—to be provided for all care recipients who need them
  The following table specifies the other care and services that must be provided for all care recipients who need them.

Other care and services—to be provided for all care recipients who need them
Item                                                                          Column 1                                                                                                     Column 2
                                                                              Care or service                                                                                              Content
3.1                                                                           Furnishings                                                                                                  Over‑bed tables.
3.2                                                                           Bedding materials                                                                                            Bed rails, incontinence sheets, ripple mattresses, sheepskins, tri‑pillows, and water and air mattresses appropriate to each care recipient's condition.
3.4                                                                           Goods to assist care recipients to move themselves                                                           Crutches, quadruped walkers, walking frames, walking sticks, and wheelchairs.
                                                                                                                                                                                           Excludes motorised wheelchairs and custom made aids.
3.5                                                                           Goods to assist staff to move care recipients                                                                Mechanical devices for lifting care recipients, stretchers, and trolleys.
3.6                                                                           Goods to assist with toileting and incontinence management                                                   Absorbent aids, commode chairs, disposable bed pans and urinal covers, disposable pads, over‑toilet chairs, shower chairs and urodomes, catheter and urinary drainage appliances, and disposable enemas.
3.8                                                                           Nursing services                                                                                             Initial assessment and care planning carried out by a nurse practitioner or registered nurse, and ongoing management and evaluation carried out by a nurse practitioner, registered nurse or enrolled nurse acting within their scope of practice.
                                                                                                                                                                                           Nursing services carried out by a nurse practitioner, registered nurse or enrolled nurse, or other professional appropriate to the service (for example, medical practitioner, stoma therapist, speech pathologist, physiotherapist or qualified practitioner from a palliative care team), acting within their scope of practice.
                                                                                                                                                                                           Services may include, but are not limited to, the following:
                                                                                                                                                                                           (a) establishment and supervision of a complex pain management or palliative care program, including monitoring and managing any side effects;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (b) insertion, care and maintenance of tubes, including intravenous and naso‑gastric tubes;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (c) establishing and reviewing a catheter care program, including the insertion, removal and replacement of catheters;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (d) establishing and reviewing a stoma care program;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (e) complex wound management;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (f) insertion of suppositories;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (g) risk management procedures relating to acute or chronic infectious conditions;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (h) special feeding for care recipients with dysphagia (difficulty with swallowing);
                                                                                                                                                                                           (i) suctioning of airways;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (j) tracheostomy care;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (k) enema administration;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (l) oxygen therapy requiring ongoing supervision because of a care recipient's variable need;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (m) dialysis treatment.
3.11                                                                          Therapy services, such as, recreational, speech therapy, podiatry, occupational, and physiotherapy services  (a) Maintenance therapy delivered by health professionals, or care staff as directed by health professionals, designed to maintain care recipients' levels of independence in activities of daily living;
                                                                                                                                                                                           (b) More intensive therapy delivered by health professionals, or care staff as directed by health professionals, on a temporary basis that is designed to allow care recipients to reach a level of independence at which maintenance therapy will meet their needs.
                                                                                                                                                                                           Excludes intensive, long‑term rehabilitation