SECTION 310:677-11-1. General requirements

(a)   The facility shall:

(1)   Complete a performance review of every nurse aide at least once every twelve (12) months and provide two (2) hours of inservice training specific to their job assignment each month.

(2)   Have in-service education generally supervised by a registered nurse who has at least two (2) years nursing experience with at least one (1) year of which shall be in the provision of long term care services.

(3)   Ensure that each nurse aide certification is current and not expired.

(b)   An individual may apply for listing in the nurse aide registry by reciprocity from another State and the Department may approve such application if the individual is listed in another State registry as a certified long term care aide and does not have a notation of abuse, neglect, mistreatment, or misappropriation of property.

(c)   The training program shall inform the trainee that a long term care aide shall complete a new nurse aide training and competency examination program or competency examination if, upon applying for renewal of certification, the nurse aide has not provided at least eight (8) hours of nursing or health related services for compensation during the previous twenty-four (24) months.

(d)   The training program shall inform a trainee that the trainee shall not perform any resident services until the trainee has completed the required sixteen (16) hours of training identified in 310:677-11-4 and the aide shall not perform services for which they have not trained and been found proficient by the instructor.

[Source: Added at 12 Ok Reg 3087, eff 7-27-95; Amended at 19 Ok Reg 2106, eff 6-27-02]