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Dementia

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Latest Update: May 15, 2023
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Training Information

Continuing education specifically related to dementia for persons employed by a facility which provides care to persons with any form of dementia. 

Responsible Party

Who Must Complete Training?
Staff who has direct contact with and provides care to persons with any form of dementia and who is licensed or certified by an occupational licensing board.

Deadlines

When Do I Need to Complete?
  • 8 hours within first 30 days of employment for first year;
  • 3 hours on or before employment anniversary date each year after.

Method

How Do I Get Trained?
The Dementia Engagement, Education, and Research (DEER) Program, situated within the School of Public Health at the University of Nevada, Reno provides the following programs, in which all three provide CEUs:

Contact Information

Benefit/Penalty

Why Should I be Trained?
More than 49,000 people over the age of 65 are living with Alzheimer’s disease in Nevada. That number is projected to increase to 65,000 by 2025, the third highest growth rate in the nation. In order to create dementia-friendly communities and improve the lives of people living with dementia, hospital staff should be trained to provide appropriate standards of care to patients living with dementia. Penalties may include licensing suspension/revocation and administrative fines/penalties.

Authority

The legal mandate requiring reporting

 NAC 449.681  Employees of facility which provides care to persons with dementia: Continuing education. (NRS 449.0302449.094)

     1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, each person who is employed by a facility which provides care to persons with any form of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, who has direct contact with and provides care to persons with any form of dementia and who is licensed or certified by an occupational licensing board must complete the following number of hours of continuing education specifically related to dementia:

     (a) In his or her first year of employment with a facility, 8 hours which must be completed within the first 30 days after the employee begins employment; and

     (b) For every year after the first year of employment, 3 hours which must be completed on or before the anniversary date of the first day of employment.

     2.  The hours of continuing education required to be completed pursuant to this section:

     (a) Must be approved by the occupational licensing board which licensed or certified the person completing the continuing education; and

     (b) May be used to satisfy any continuing education requirements of an occupational licensing board and do not constitute additional hours or units of required continuing education.

     3.  Each facility shall maintain proof of completion of the hours of continuing education required pursuant to this section in the personnel file of each employee of the facility who is required to complete continuing education pursuant to this section.

     4.  A person employed by a facility which provides care to persons with any form of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, is not required to complete the hours of continuing education specifically related to dementia required pursuant to subsection 1 if he or she has completed that training within the previous 12 months.

     5.  As used in this section, “continuing education specifically related to dementia” includes, without limitation, instruction regarding:

     (a) An overview of the disease of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, which includes instruction on the symptoms, prognosis and treatment of the disease;

     (b) Communicating with a person with dementia;

     (c) Providing personal care to a person with dementia;

     (d) Recreational and social activities for a person with dementia;

     (e) Aggressive and other difficult behaviors of a person with dementia; and

     (f) Advising family members of a person with dementia concerning interaction with the person with dementia.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R066-04, eff. 8-4-2004)

DISCLAIMER
Although many of these requirements apply to individual medical professionals and other types of hospitals and health care facilities, the information is presented solely to support Critical Access Hospitals. The reporting requirements and legal mandates on this site are not an exhaustive list and Nevada Rural Hospital Partners, Inc. bears no responsibility or liability for any hospitals' or providers' failure to comply with Federal or State laws or regulations.