Failure to Provide Required Ongoing Training for Nurse Aides and Medication Aides
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to ensure that nurse aides and medication aides completed the required ongoing training, including at least 12 hours per year on topics appropriate to their job duties, abuse/neglect training, and a minimum of 4 hours of dementia training. Record reviews for five sampled staff members showed significant deficiencies in completed training hours and content. For example, one aide completed only 1.75 hours of ongoing training with no evidence of dementia training, while another completed 3 hours, with some training unrelated to their job duties and no dementia training. Other aides had partial completion of required hours, with minimal or no dementia or abuse/neglect training documented. The facility's own assessment tool identified nurse aide education on abuse and neglect as a high priority and dementia training as a medium priority, but did not specify time requirements for ongoing training. An interview with the Nurse Consultant confirmed that the facility had not met the required ongoing training standards for the sampled staff. The deficiency had the potential to affect all residents in the facility, which had a census of 45 at the time of the survey.