2023 Connecticut General Statutes › Title 19a - Public Health and Well-Being › Chapter 368v - Health Care Institutions › Section 19a-562a. - Training requirements for nursing home facility and dementia special care unit or program staff.

(a) Each nursing home facility that is not a residential care home or an dementia special care unit or program shall (1) annually provide a minimum of two hours of training in pain recognition and administration of pain management techniques, and (2) provide a minimum of one hour of training in oral health and oral hygiene techniques not later than one year after the date of hire and subsequent training in said techniques annually thereafter, to all licensed and registered direct care staff and nurse's aides who provide direct patient care to residents.
(b) Each dementia special care unit or program shall annually provide Alzheimer's and dementia specific training to all licensed and registered direct care staff and nurse's aides who provide direct patient care to residents enrolled in the dementia special care unit or program. Such requirements shall include, but not be limited to, (1) not less than eight hours of dementia-specific training, which shall be completed not later than six months after the date of employment or, if the date of employment is on or after October 1, 2014, not later than one hundred twenty days after the date of employment and not less than eight hours of such training annually thereafter, and (2) annual training of not less than two hours in pain recognition and administration of pain management techniques for direct care staff.
(c) Each dementia special care unit or program shall annually provide a minimum of one hour of Alzheimer's and dementia specific training to all unlicensed and unregistered staff, except nurse's aides, who provide services and care to residents enrolled in the dementia special care unit or program. For such staff hired on or after October 1, 2007, such training shall be completed not later than six months after the date of employment and, for such staff hired on or after October 1, 2014, not later than one hundred twenty days after the date of employment.
(P.A. 06-195, S. 56; P.A. 07-34, S. 1; 07-252, S. 17, 61; P.A. 08-184, S. 38; P.A. 09-108, S. 2; P.A. 14-194, S. 4; 14-231, S. 27; P.A. 21-121, S. 92.)
History: P.A. 06-195 effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-34 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re training requirements for unlicensed and unregistered staff working in Alzheimer's special care unit or program; P.A. 07-252 amended Subsec. (a) to extend Alzheimer's and dementia specific training requirements to nurse's aides and make technical changes, and amended Subsec. (b) to exempt nurse's aides from training requirements imposed on unlicensed and unregistered staff; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by substituting “eight” for “three” re hours of annual dementia-specific training required; P.A. 09-108 added new Subsec. (a) re pain recognition and management training requirements for nursing home facility staff and redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) and (b) as Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective July 1, 2009; P.A. 14-194 amended Subsecs. (b) and (c) to add provisions re training to take place not later than 120 days after date of employment for staff hired or having date of employment on or after October 1, 2014; P.A. 14-231 amended Subsec. (a) by designating existing provisions re pain recognition and pain management techniques as Subdiv. (1) and adding Subdiv. (2) re oral health and oral hygiene techniques; P.A. 21-121 replaced “Alzheimer's special care unit or program” with “dementia special care unit or program”, effective July 6, 2021.