Lack of Documented Dementia Training for Staff
Penalty
Summary
The facility failed to provide required dementia training to its staff, as evidenced by the absence of documentation in the employee files of all seven staff members reviewed during the annual survey. The Assistant Director of Nursing (ADON) stated that ongoing training occurs twice per month and that an annual competency skills fair was held, but when asked to provide records verifying completion of dementia training for the current year, no such documentation was found in the files of the geriatric nursing assistants, LPN, or RN reviewed. Despite a subsequent search and provision of additional education records by the ADON, there remained no evidence of dementia training for these staff members. Both the Director of Nursing and ADON were informed of these findings by the surveyor.