2011 Connecticut Code
Title 19a Public Health and Well-Being
Chapter 368v Health Care Institutions
Sec. 19a-562a. Pain recognition and management training requirements for nursing home facility staff. Staff training requirements for Alzheimer's special care units or programs.

      Sec. 19a-562a. Pain recognition and management training requirements for nursing home facility staff. Staff training requirements for Alzheimer's special care units or programs. (a) Each nursing home facility that is not a residential care home or an Alzheimer's special care unit or program shall annually provide a minimum of two hours of training in pain recognition and administration of pain management techniques to all licensed and registered direct care staff and nurse's aides who provide direct patient care to residents.

      (b) Each Alzheimer's special care unit or program shall annually provide Alzheimer's and dementia specific training to all licensed and registered direct care staff and nurse's aides who provide direct patient care to residents enrolled in the Alzheimer's special care unit or program. Such requirements shall include, but not be limited to, (1) not less than eight hours of dementia-specific training, which shall be completed not later than six months after the date of employment and not less than eight hours of such training annually thereafter, and (2) annual training of not less than two hours in pain recognition and administration of pain management techniques for direct care staff.

      (c) Each Alzheimer's special care unit or program shall annually provide a minimum of one hour of Alzheimer's and dementia specific training to all unlicensed and unregistered staff, except nurse's aides, who provide services and care to residents enrolled in the Alzheimer's special care unit or program. For such staff hired on or after October 1, 2007, such training shall be completed not later than six months after the date of employment.

      (P.A. 06-195, S. 56; P.A. 07-34, S. 1; 07-252, S. 17, 61; P.A. 08-184, S. 38; P.A. 09-108, S. 2.)

      History: P.A. 06-195 effective June 7, 2006; P.A. 07-34 designated existing provisions as Subsec. (a) and added Subsec. (b) re training requirements for unlicensed and unregistered staff working in Alzheimer's special care unit or program; P.A. 07-252 amended Subsec. (a) to extend Alzheimer's and dementia specific training requirements to nurse's aides and make technical changes, and amended Subsec. (b) to exempt nurse's aides from training requirements imposed on unlicensed and unregistered staff; P.A. 08-184 amended Subsec. (a)(1) by substituting "eight" for "three" re hours of annual dementia-specific training required; P.A. 09-108 added new Subsec. (a) re pain recognition and management training requirements for nursing home facility staff and redesignated existing Subsecs. (a) and (b) as Subsecs. (b) and (c), effective July 1, 2009.