Unlicensed Assistive Personnel (UAP)

From the North Carolina Board of Nursing:

UAP is an umbrella term used to describe unlicensed health care assistants that have been trained to provide certain tasks of client care as directed by a licensed health care provider. Family members, friends, and guardians of a client are not considered UAP.

UAP includes but is not limited to the following job titles:

UAP may work in a variety of healthcare settings including, but not limited to:

Decision Tree for Delegation to UAP