Washington Administrative Code
2022 Archive

Chapter 388-112A WAC
Last Update: 12/9/22

RESIDENTIAL LONG-TERM CARE SERVICES TRAINING
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DEFINITIONS, PURPOSE, AND APPLICABILITY
388-112A-0010What definitions apply to this chapter?
388-112A-0020What are the purposes of this chapter?
388-112A-0030Who do the training requirements apply to?
388-112A-0040When did the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training requirements go into effect?
388-112A-0050What are the training and certification requirements for volunteers and long-term care workers in adult family homes, adult family home providers, and adult family home applicants?
388-112A-0060What are the training and certification requirements for volunteers and long-term care workers in assisted living facilities and assisted living facility administrators?
388-112A-0070What are the training and certification requirements for applicants, administrators or their designees, volunteers, and long-term care workers in enhanced services facilities?
388-112A-0080Who is required to complete the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training and by when?
388-112A-0081When must long-term care workers who were working or hired during the COVID-19 public health emergency complete training, including required specialty training?
388-112A-0090Which long-term care workers are exempt from the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training requirement?
388-112A-0095What actions may the department take if a provider does not comply with the requirements of this chapter?
388-112A-0100Is the department authorized by RCW 74.39A.086 to take enforcement action for noncompliance related to the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training and home care aide certification requirements?
388-112A-0105Who is required to obtain home care aide certification and by when?
388-112A-0110May a home employ a long-term care worker who has not completed the 70-hour home care aide training or certification requirements?
388-112A-0115How does DSHS determine a long-term care worker's date of hire?
DOCUMENTATION REQUIREMENTS
388-112A-0118What documentation is required for completion of each training?
388-112A-0120What documentation is required for a long-term care worker to apply for the home care aide certification or recertification?
388-112A-0125Prior to hiring a long-term care worker, what training and certification requirements must be reviewed?
388-112A-0130When and how may a long-term care worker be eligible to reset date of hire?
ORIENTATION AND SAFETY TRAINING
388-112A-0200What is orientation training, who should complete it, and when should it be completed?
388-112A-0210What content must be included in facility and long-term care worker orientation?
388-112A-0220What is safety training, who must complete it, and when should it be completed?
388-112A-0230What content must be included in safety training?
BASIC TRAINING
388-112A-0300What is the 70-hour home care aide basic training?
388-112A-0305What are the minimum requirements for training programs to provide remote skills training?
388-112A-0310What topics must be taught in the core competencies of the 70-hour home care aide basic training?
388-112A-0320What are the core competencies and learning objectives for the 70-hour home care aide training?
388-112A-0330What is on-the-job training?
388-112A-0340What is the population specific component of the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training and what required training may be used as population specific training?
388-112A-0370What are the requirements for using basic training to meet the specialty training requirements?
SPECIALTY TRAINING
388-112A-0400What is specialty training and who is required to take it?
388-112A-0410What specialty training is required if a resident has more than one special need?
388-112A-0420What topics must developmental disabilities specialty training include?
388-112A-0430What are the competencies and learning objectives for the long-term care worker developmental disability specialty training?
388-112A-0440What must dementia specialty training include?
388-112A-0450What must mental health specialty training include?
388-112A-0460Who must complete competency testing for specialty training?
388-112A-0470Is there a challenge test for specialty training classes?
388-112A-0490What are the specialty training requirements for applicants, resident managers, administrators, and other types of entity representatives in adult family homes, assisted living facilities, and enhanced services facilities?
388-112A-0495What are the specialty training and supervision requirements for long-term care workers in adult family homes, assisted living facilities, and enhanced services facilities?
NURSE DELEGATION CORE AND SPECIALIZED DIABETES TRAINING
388-112A-0500What is nurse delegation core training?
388-112A-0510What knowledge and skills must nurse delegation core training include?
388-112A-0520Is competency testing required for nurse delegation core or specialized diabetes training?
388-112A-0550Who is required to complete nurse delegation core training and nurse delegation specialized diabetes training and by when?
388-112A-0560What is nurse delegation specialized diabetes training?
388-112A-0570What knowledge and skills must specialized diabetes nurse delegation training include?
388-112A-0575Is competency testing required for the specialized diabetes nurse delegation training?
388-112A-0580Is there a challenge test for nurse delegation core or specialized diabetes training?
388-112A-0590May nurse delegation core and specialized diabetes training occur in the same year as the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training?
CONTINUING EDUCATION
388-112A-0600What is continuing education and what topics may be covered in continuing education?
388-112A-0610Who in an adult family home is required to complete continuing education training each year, how many hours of continuing education are required, and when must they be completed?
388-112A-0611Who in an assisted living facility is required to complete continuing education training each year, how many hours of continuing education are required, and when must they be completed?
388-112A-0612Who in an enhanced services facility is required to complete continuing education training each year, how many hours of continuing education are required, and when must they be completed?
388-112A-0613When must continuing education be completed when public health emergency waivers are lifted, and what continuing education credit is granted to long-term care workers employed during the pandemic?
CPR AND FIRST-AID TRAINING
388-112A-0700What is CPR training?
388-112A-0710What is CPR/first-aid training?
388-112A-0720What are the CPR and first-aid training requirements?
RESIDENTIAL CARE ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING
388-112A-0800What is residential care administrator training?
388-112A-0810Who must take the adult family home administrator training?
388-112A-0820What knowledge and skills must adult family home administrator training include?
388-112A-0830Is competency testing required for adult family home administrator training?
COMPETENCY TESTING
388-112A-0900What is competency testing?
388-112A-0910What components must competency testing include?
388-112A-0920Which trainings must include a DSHS developed competency test?
388-112A-0930How must competency test administration be standardized?
388-112A-0940What form of identification must students provide before they take a competency or challenge test?
388-112A-0950How many times may a competency or challenge test be taken?
CURRICULUM APPROVAL
388-112A-1000Which trainings require department approval of the curriculum and instructor?
388-112A-1010What is the curriculum approval process for orientation, safety training, basic training, population specific training, specialty training, residential care administrator training, and continuing education?
388-112A-1020What must be submitted to DSHS for curriculum approval?
HOME-BASED TRAINING
388-112A-1100What are the requirements for an assisted living facility, enhanced services facility, or adult family home to conduct orientation, safety, basic, on-the-job, continuing education, or specialty training?
388-112A-1110When may DSHS prohibit a home from conducting its own training?
INSTRUCTOR APPROVAL
388-112A-1200What are the training entity's responsibilities?
388-112A-1210Must training entities and their instructors be approved by DSHS?
388-112A-1220May DSHS deny or terminate a contract or rescind approval of an instructor or training entity?
388-112A-1230What is a guest speaker and what are the minimum qualifications to be a guest speaker?
388-112A-1240What are the minimum qualifications for an instructor for core basic, population specific, on-the-job, residential care administrator, nurse delegation core, and specialized diabetes trainings?
388-112A-1245What are the requirements and minimum qualifications for high school instructors and programs that offer core basic, population specific, nurse delegation, and specialty trainings?
388-112A-1250What are the minimum qualifications for community instructors for adult education training using DSHS curriculum?
388-112A-1260What are the minimum qualifications for an instructor for orientation, safety training, and continuing education?
388-112A-1270What are the minimum qualifications for community instructors for mental health specialty training?
388-112A-1280What are the minimum qualifications for facility training program instructors for mental health specialty training?
388-112A-1285What are the minimum qualifications for community instructors for dementia specialty training?
388-112A-1290What are the minimum qualifications for facility training program instructors for dementia specialty training?
388-112A-1292What are the minimum qualifications for community instructors to teach expanded specialty trainings?
388-112A-1294What are the minimum qualifications for facility training program instructors to teach expanded specialty trainings?
388-112A-1295What are the minimum qualifications for instructors for developmental disabilities specialty training?
388-112A-1297What must be included in an adult education class and which instructors must complete it?
PHYSICAL RESOURCES AND STANDARD PRACTICES FOR TRAINING
388-112A-1300What physical resources are required for classroom training and testing?
388-112A-1310What standard training practices must be maintained for classroom training and testing?
DISPOSITION OF SECTIONS FORMERLY CODIFIED IN THIS TITLE
388-112A-0240What documentation is required for facility orientation 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0240, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0350What documentation is required to show completion of the seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training and five hour orientation and safety 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0350, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0480What documentation is required for successful completion of specialty 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0480, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0530Is there a challenge test for nurse delegation core 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0530, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0540What documentation is required for successful completion of nurse delegation core 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0540, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0585What documentation is required for successful completion of 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0585, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0620What are the documentation requirements for continuing education? [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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0620, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.
388-112A-0840What documentation is required for adult family home administrator 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, 71A.12.030. WSR 17-22-036, § 388-112A-0840, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.] Repealed by WSR 23-01-022, filed 12/9/22, effective 1/9/23. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.270, 70.128.230, 74.08.090, 74.39A.070, and 74.39A.074.