Survey date 2022-02-03 - inspection
C N A INSERVICE & EVALUATION (4) When employed by a nursing home facility for a 12-month period or longer, a nursing assistant, to maintain certification, shall submit to a performance review every 12 months and must receive regular inservice education based on the outcome of such reviews. The inservice training must: (a) Be sufficient to ensure the continuing competence of nursing assistants and must meet the standard specified in s. 464.203(7); (b) Include, at a minimum: 1. Techniques for assisting with eating and proper feeding; 2. Principles of adequate nutrition and hydration; 3. Techniques for assisting and responding to the cognitively impaired resident or the resident with difficult behaviors; 4. Techniques for caring for the resident at the end-of-life; and 5. Recognizing changes that place a resident at risk for pressure ulcers and falls; and (c) Address areas of weakness as determined in nursing assistant performance reviews and may address the special needs of residents as determined by the nursing home facility staff. Costs associated with this training may not be reimbursed from additional Medicaid funding through interim rate adjustments.
No actual harm with a potential for minimal harm. The least severe class of CMS finding.
Corrected on 2022-03-25.