Failure to Provide Annual Abuse and Dementia Training to Nurse Aides
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to ensure that nurse aides received required annual training in abuse prevention and dementia care, as evidenced by a review of five employee files. Each file reviewed, including those for nurse aides hired as early as June 2022 and as recently as April 2024, lacked documentation of completed annual abuse and dementia training. Specifically, none of the five nurse aides had documentation of annual dementia training, and two did not have documentation of annual abuse training. An interview with the Regional Nurse Consultant confirmed the absence of these required trainings for the identified nurse aides. The facility's own policy mandates annual in-services for all team members, including abuse and neglect and dementia behavior management, but the records reviewed did not show compliance with this policy for the sampled staff.