Who | Status | Facility orientation | Safety/orientation training | Seventy-hour long-term care worker basic training | Specialty training | Continuing education (CE) | Quarterly in-service education | Certification as a home care aide (HCA) |
(a) Enhanced services facility (ESF) applicant, administrator or their designee, or long-term care worker in ESF. | (i) An ARNP, RN, LPN, NA-C, NA-C student or other professionals listed in WAC 388-112A-0090. | | Not required. | Not required. | Per WAC 388-107-0650 for applicants required prior to facility licensing and for administrators and long-term care workers prior to providing client services. | Not required of ARNPs, RNs, or LPNs in chapter 388-112A WAC. Required twelve hours per WAC 388-112A-0610 for NA-Cs, and other professionals listed in WAC 388-112A-0090, such as individuals with special education training with an endorsement granted by the superintendent of public instruction under RCW 28A.300.010. Per WAC 388-107-0670, ten hours must be in subject appropriate for residents served in the facility. | | Not required. |
| (ii) Enhanced services facility (ESF) applicant that does not meet the criteria in subsection (1)(a)(i) of this section. | Not required. | | | Per WAC 388-107-0650 for applicants required prior to facility licensing. | | | |
| (iii) A long-term care worker who was employed on January 6, 2012 or was previously employed sometime between January 1, 2011 and January 6, 2012 and has completed the basic training requirements in effect on his or her hire date. WAC 388-112A-0090. | | Not required. | Not required. | | | | Not required. |
| (iv) Employed in an enhanced services facility and does not meet the criteria in subsection (1)(a)(i), (ii) or (iii) of this section. Meets definition of long-term care worker in WAC 388-112A-0010. | Not required. | | | | | | Required per WAC 388-112A-0105 within two hundred days of the date of hire as provided in WAC 246-980-050 (unless the department of health issues a provisional certification under WAC 246-980-065). |
(b) Volunteer staff in adult family home or assisted living facility. | An unpaid person. | | Not required. | Not required. | Not required. | Not required. | Not required. | Not required. |
(2) The remainder of this chapter and chapter
388-107 WAC describes the training and certification requirements in more detail.
(3) The following training requirements are not listed in the chart in subsection (1) of this section but are required under this chapter:
(b) Enhanced services facility (ESF) administrator training under WAC 388-112A-0800.
[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-0070, filed 10/24/17, effective 11/24/17.]