Lack of Documented Skills Competency for Newly Hired Nurse Aides
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Summary
The facility failed to ensure that two newly hired nurse aides demonstrated competency in the skills and techniques necessary to care for residents. Review of personnel files and facility documentation showed that Employees E16 and E17 were hired as nurse aides, but there was no evidence of any skills competency evaluations conducted for them. Despite requests for documentation of hands-on direct patient care skills evaluations, none were provided for these employees at any time during the survey. The facility's job description for nurse aides includes a range of resident care tasks, but the required competency assessments were not documented for these two staff members.