Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-18 - Training and Competency Evaluation Programs; Train the Trainer Programs › Section 3701-18-12 - Training and competency evaluation program curriculum criteria

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) An approved
			 TCEP shall provide a combined total of at least seventy-five hours of
			 instruction that, at minimum, addresses each of the topic areas listed in
			 paragraphs (A)(4) and (A)(5) of this rule for at least the specified period of
			 time and the TCEP curriculum standards prescribed by the appendix to this rule.
(1) Within each topic area, the program shall
			 address each standard as identified in the appendix to
			 this rule. The instruction for each standard shall be comparable to the
			 material specified in the appendix to this
			 rule.
(2) The curriculum
			 shall be designed to address the day-to-day attitudes and behaviors that
			 promote the healthy functioning of residents, both physically and emotionally,
			 and shall focus on the restoration and maintenance of the resident in as
			 independent as possible a status. The approved TCEP shall have as its objective
			 the development of nurse aides who are able to do all of the following:
(a) Form a relationship, communicate, and
			 interact competently on a one-to-one basis with residents;
(b) Demonstrate sensitivity to residents'
			 emotional, social, and mental health needs through skillful, directed
			 interactions;
(c) Exhibit behavior
			 in support and promotion of residents' rights; and
(d) Demonstrate observational and documenting
			 skills needed in the assessment of residents' health, physical condition, and
			 well-being.
(3) The
			 curriculum content shall address the needs of various populations such as
			 persons with Alzheimer's disease, dementia, mental illness, or intellectual
			 disability and non-elderly persons with other disabilities. The curriculum
			 content also shall include consideration of ethnic, racial, and cultural
			 factors that affect the provision of care in a long-term care facility.
			 Facility-based TCEPs shall adapt the content of the classroom instruction and
			 clinical experience to the facility's specific resident population or
			 anticipated future population. A facility-based TCEP's curriculum also may
			 include content relevant to the populations of other facilities if the program
			 includes trainees from other facilities.
(4) Before the trainees provide any nursing
			 or nursing-related services involving direct contact with residents, the
			 program shall provide at least sixteen hours of classroom instruction, which
			 may include laboratory simulation, addressing the following topic areas for at
			 least the specified period of time:
(a)
			 Introduction to the program - one-half hour;
(b) Communication and interpersonal skills -
			 four and one-half hours;
(c)
			 Infection control - two and one-half hours;
(d) Safety and emergency procedures - six and
			 one-half hours;
(e) Promoting
			 residents' independence - one hour; and
(f) Respecting residents' rights - one
			 hour.
(5) The fifty-nine
			 minimum hours of instruction after completion of the instruction required by
			 paragraph (A)(4) of this rule shall address at least each of the topic areas
			 listed in this paragraph for at least the specified period of time, and shall
			 include sixteen to twenty-five hours of clinical experience.
			 
									Unless the TCEP
			 receives a variance from the director under paragraph (I) of rule
			 3701-18-08
			 of the Administrative Code, the clinical experience shall be provided in
			 an Ohio long-term care facility and shall address each subject matter
			 component, as listed in the appendix to this rule, within each topic area. The
			 hours of clinical experience may be allocated among the subject matter
			 components of the topic area in whatever manner best accommodates the needs of
			 the program's trainees. The fifty-nine minimum hours of instruction required by
			 this paragraph, including the clinical experience, shall address the following
			 topic areas:
(a) Basic nursing skills -
			 nineteen hours, including between six and ten hours of clinical
			 experience;
(b) Personal care
			 skills - twenty-two and one-half hours, including between seven to eight hours
			 of clinical experience;
(c) Mental
			 health and social service needs - eleven and one-half hours, including between
			 two and four hours of clinical experience;
(d) Basic restorative services - four hours,
			 including between one and two hours of clinical experience; and
(e) Residents' rights - two hours, including
			 not more than one hour of clinical experience.
(6) The minimum of seventy-five hours of
			 instruction required by paragraph (A) of this rule shall not include time spent
			 in either of the following:
(a) The
			 orientation program or the in-service education that a long-term care facility
			 is required to provide pursuant to section
			 3721.29
			 of the Revised Code and paragraph (K) of rule 3701-17-07.1 of the
			 Administrative Code; or
(b) The
			 test conducted by the director or the director's designee under division (C) of
			 section
			 3721.31
			 of the Revised Code and rule
			 3701-18-22
			 of the Administrative Code.