Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. All
facilities shall provide training for each staff member.
B. Documentation for training shall be kept
on file at each facility and available for inspection by representatives of the
licensing authority.
C.
Documentation may take the form of certificates or a training log with the
date, name of staff member or caregiver, hours spent in training, subject and
source of training.
D. Before
beginning work all facilities shall provide for each staff member an
orientation which includes the following as a minimum:
(1) scope of services, activities, and
program offered by the facility;
(2) emergency first aid procedures,
recognition of illness and indicators of abuse;
(3) fire prevention measures and emergency
evacuation plans;
(4) review of
licensing regulations;
(5) special
problems of the elderly and disabled;
(6) participant rights;
(7) sanitation procedures.
E. Emergency staff and substitutes
are not required to participate in training.
F.
Adult day care centers:
(1) All staff members, including the
director, shall participate in at least forty (40) documented clock hours of
training during each year of employment.
(2) Of the forty (40) hours of required
training, twenty (20) hours shall be in areas covering the physical, emotional,
intellectual, and social needs of adults.
(3) Other training may include, but is not
limited to the following: nutrition, sanitation procedures, first aid, and
cardiovascular resuscitation techniques.
G.
Adult day care homes:
(1) All staff members shall participate in at
least twenty four (24) documented clock hours of training during each year of
licensure.
(2) The required twenty
four (24) hours of training shall be in the subjects specified in Sections
58.6.2 and 58.6.3 [now Paragraphs (2) and (3) or Subsection F of 7.13.2.58
NMAC] of these regulations.
H. Training may be obtained from, but not
limited to, the following resources:
(1)
public health division, department of health.
(2) social services division, department of
human services.
(3) adult day care
associations and information and referral services.
(4) university related programs.
(5) vocational/technical schools.
(6) county extension offices.
(7) local fire department.
(8) red cross.
(9) self-study as approved by the licensing
authority.
(10) In service training
by a qualified staff member whose qualifications are approved by the licensing
authority.
