WAC 388-112-0075   Who is required to complete basic training, and when?  Adult family homes

     (1) Adult family home providers (including entity representatives as defined under chapter 388-76 WAC) must complete basic training and demonstrate competency before operating an adult family home.

     (2) Adult family home resident managers must complete basic training and demonstrate competency before providing services in an adult family home.

     (3) Caregivers in adult family homes must complete basic training within one hundred twenty days of when they begin providing hands-on personal care or within one hundred twenty days of September 1, 2002, whichever is later. Until competency in the basic training has been demonstrated, caregivers may not provide hands-on personal care without indirect supervision.

     Boarding homes

     (4) Boarding home administrators (or their designees), except administrators with a current nursing home administrator license, must complete basic training and demonstrate competency within one hundred twenty days of employment or within one hundred twenty days of September 1, 2002, whichever is later.

     (5) Caregivers must complete basic training within one hundred twenty days of when they begin providing hands-on personal care or within one hundred twenty days of September 1, 2002, whichever is later. Until competency in the basic training has been demonstrated, caregivers may not provide hands-on personal care without direct supervision.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.090, 70.128.040, 74.39A.050, 34.05.020, 2000 c 121, and 2002 c 233. 02-15-065, § 388-112-0075, filed 7/11/02, effective 8/11/02.]