8710 Residential nursing care activities

This subcategory includes combined accommodation, nursing and personal care services provided by establishments with a permanent core staff of registered or licensed practical nurses, without the supervision of a medical doctor located on the premises, e.g. by nursing homes, homes for older persons with nursing care, convalescent homes, rest homes with nursing care, hospices for palliative care. Services typically include management of symptoms, such as relieving pain and other symptoms, medical diagnoses, administering medication and dressing wounds, as well as personal care services providing help with activities of daily living and administered directly by or under the supervision of nursing staff, such as eating, bathing, washing, dressing, getting in and out of bed, getting to and from the toilet and managing incontinence

This subcategory also includes:

• long-term residential nursing care services without overnight stay

This subcategory excludes:

• in-home services provided by health care professionals, see division 86
• residential care services for older persons without or with minimal nursing care, see 87.30.01
• social work services with accommodation, such as those provided by orphanages, children's boarding homes and hostels, temporary homeless shelters, see 87.99.0