2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities
NRS 449.094 - Continuing education requirements concerning care of persons with dementia for certain employees of facilities for skilled nursing, facilities for intermediate care and residential facilities for groups.
1. The Board shall establish minimum continuing education requirements concerning the care of persons with any form of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, for each person who is:
(a) Employed by a facility for skilled nursing, facility for intermediate care or residential facility for groups which provides care to persons with any form of dementia; and
(b) Licensed or certified by an occupational licensing board.
2. In establishing continuing education requirements pursuant to subsection 1, the Board shall consider any other educational requirements imposed on such employees to ensure that the continuing education requirements established by the Board do not duplicate or conflict with the existing educational requirements imposed on those employees.
3. The administrator of a facility for skilled nursing, facility for intermediate care or residential facility for groups which provides care to persons with any form of dementia, including, without limitation, dementia caused by Alzheimer’s disease, shall ensure that each employee of the facility who is required to comply with the requirements for continuing education established by the Board pursuant to this section complies with such requirements.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 856)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 449.0357)
