Section 1263.
Cal. Health and Safety Code - HSC § 1263.
in effect(a)
This section shall be known and may be cited as the Dementia Training Standards Act of 2001.
(b)
(1)
Any certified nurse assistant employed by a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall have completed at least two hours of initial dementia-specific training as part of the facility’s orientation program. The training shall be completed within the first 40 hours of employment.
(2)
The facility shall develop a dementia-specific training component within the existing orientation program, to be implemented no later than July 1, 2002.
(3)
The facility’s modified orientation program shall be reviewed by the department in a phasein schedule that begins no later than July 1, 2002, and is completed no later than July 1, 2005.
(c)
Any certified nursing assistant employed by a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility shall participate in a minimum of five hours of dementia-specific in-service training per year, as part of the facility’s in-service training.
(d)
Freestanding and hospital-based pediatric skilled nursing facilities with exclusively pediatric occupancy shall be exempt from the requirements set forth in this section.
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