Current through February, 2024
(a) A written copy
of the facility-based or non-facility based nurse aide training and competency
evaluation program's curriculum as specified in this section shall be included
with the nurse aide training and competency evaluation program's application
for certification.
(b) The
curriculum requirements, at a minimum, shall include the following:
(1) One hundred hours of training. Thirty
hours or more shall be spent in classroom activities of which at least sixteen
hours shall be in the following areas prior to any direct contact by trainees
with residents:
(A) Communication and
interpersonal skills;
(B) Infection
control;
(C) Safety and emergency
procedures, including Heimlich maneuver;
(D) Understanding and promoting resident's
independence; and
(E) Respecting
residents' rights;
(2)
Basic nursing skills, including recognition of abnormal changes in body
functioning and the importance of reporting such changes to a
supervisor;
(3) Personal care
skills;
(4) Mental health and
social service needs;
(5) Care of
cognitively impaired residents;
(6)
Basic restorative services; and
(7)
Resident's rights.
(c)
Other classroom activities shall include, but shall not be limited to, the
following activities:
(1) Introduction to the
health care delivery system in Hawaii with special emphasis on agencies and
facilities that care for the aged;
(2) Appropriate professional conduct as a
nurse aide;
(3) General preventive
health care with emphasis on controlling the spread of infections;
(4) Basic information about human bodily
functions;
(5) Interpersonal skills
including time and stress management, teamwork, developing relationships with
residents, and coping with death and dying; and
(6) Basic medical terminology.
(d) Seventy hours of the one
hundred hours of training specified in subsection (b)(1) shall consist of
supervised practical training. Supervised practical training shall include at a
minimum, the following:
(1) Basic nursing
skills that must be taught and directly supervised by a registered nurse for a
minimum of thirty hours;
(2) Basic
personal care skills that must be taught and directly supervised by a licensed
practical nurse working under the supervision of a registered nurse for a
minimum of thirty hours; and '
(3)
Basic restorative services that must be taught by a licensed or certified
therapist working under the supervision of a registered nurse for a minimum of
ten hours.
(e) In a
non-facility based nurse aide training and competency evaluation program, the
supervised practical training shall be conducted in a laboratory setting
designed to simulate the nursing facility environment.
(f) Trainee activities in a nurse aide
training and competency evaluation program are restricted as follows:
(1) Trainees shall not perform any services
to residents for which the trainee has not been trained and found proficient by
the registered nurse instructor; and
(2) Trainees providing services to residents
shall be under the general supervision of a registered nurse.
(g) Instructional techniques may
include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Lectures;
(2) Written assignments;
(3) Audiovisual aids; and
(4) Role playing.
(h) The nurse aide training and competency
evaluation program shall objectively measure the trainee's performance in
classroom activities and in supervised practical training that shall include,
but not be limited to, the following:
(1) Oral
and written testing;
(2) Trainee
assessment forms;
(3) Attendance
records, including tardiness and absentees;
(4) Evaluation of the trainee's understanding
and ability to perform each skill correctly; and
(5) Evidence that the trainee has achieved
competence in all curriculum areas as specified in this section prior to
completion of the program.
