(1) Before performing any delegated nursing task, long-term care workers in adult family homes and assisted living facilities must:
(a) Successfully complete the DSHS designated nurse delegation core training, "nurse delegation for nursing assistants & home care aides";
(b) Be one or more of the following:
(i) Certified home care aide under chapter
18.88B RCW;
(ii) Nursing assistant certified under chapter
18.88A RCW;
(iii) If the long-term care worker is exempt from the home care aide certification under WAC
246-980-025, the long-term care worker must be a nursing assistant registered and complete the core competencies of basic training, unless they already completed the twenty-eight hours of revised fundamentals of care or a department approved alternative;
(iv) If nurse delegation is needed to implement a care plan or negotiated service agreement earlier than home care aide certification can be obtained, the long-term care worker must become a nursing assistant registered and complete core competencies (the core basic training) of the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training.
(2) Before long-term care workers in adult family homes and assisted living facilities may perform the task of insulin injections, the long-term care workers must:
(a) Meet the requirements in subsection (1)(a) and (b) of this section; and
(b) Successfully complete the DSHS designated specialized diabetes nurse delegation training.
[Statutory Authority: RCW
74.39A.009,
74.39A.070,
74.39A.074,
74.39A.351,
74.39A.341,
18.20.270,
18.88B.021,
18.88B.035,
70.128.230, and
71A.12.030. WSR 21-11-090, § 388-112A-0550, filed 5/18/21, effective 6/18/21; WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0550, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.]