Needed to Care For definition

Needed to Care For means the employee is providing (or will provide) physical care or psychological comfort and reassurance
Needed to Care For a unit member is needed to care for a family member in the following situations: (1) The unit member is needed to provide the family member with medical care, personal hygiene, nutritional needs, transportation to a doctor, etc. (2) The unit member is needed to provide psychological comfort and reassurance that would be beneficial to a seriously ill child or parent receiving inpatient care. (3) The unit member is needed to fill in for other care givers, or to make arrangements for care (such as finding a nursing home).
Needed to Care For a Family Member – This encompasses both physical and psychological care and includes situations where the family member is unable to care for his/her own basic medical, hygienic, or nutritional needs or safety, or is unable to transport his/herself to the doctor. Parent – A parent is a biological parent or an individual who had day-to-day responsibilities to care for and financially support the employee when the employee was a child. A biological or legal relationship is not necessary.

More Definitions of Needed to Care For

Needed to Care For means an employee may take leave to care for a family member if needed to provide physical and/or psychological care (i.e., basic medical needs, hygiene, transportation to the doctor, or emotional support). (§ 825.124).
Needed to Care For a family member encompasses:

Related to Needed to Care For

  • Medical examination means an in-person or virtual examination of a member’s physical or mental health, or both, by a physician or physicians selected or approved by the board; or, at the discretion of the board, a medical record review of the member’s physical or mental health, or both, by a physician selected or approved by the board.

  • Practical examination means a demonstration through application of the safety rules and principles in industrial radiography including use of all procedures and equipment to be used by radiographic personnel.

  • psychiatric emergency medical condition means a Mental Disorder that manifests itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity that it renders the patient as being either of the following:

  • Physical examination means the assessment of an individual’s health by a professional licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy, or by an advanced practice nurse or physician assistant.

  • Medical care facility as used in this title, means any institution, place, building or agency, whether