ALF Core Training Florida Latest Updated
Study Guide
Assisted Living Facility -
✅ A facility that is operated and regulated as a residential environment not medical that provides
housing, meals, and one or more personal services for a period exceeding 24 hours to one or more
adults who are not relatives of the owner or administrator.
Renewal License -
✅ Must be completed at least 60 days and no more than 120 days before current license expires.
CHOW -
✅ Change of Ownership
Initial Licensure CHOW -
✅ Must be received at least 60 days prior to the change of ownership
Omitted Information Licensure -
✅ Must be submitted within 21 days after the request from the agency is made.
The Agency for Healthcare Administration -
✅ Also, "the agency", AHCA, Agency Central Office
Length of ALF Licensure -
✅ Licensing is biennial unless a shorter license period is specified.
ALF -
✅ Assisted Living Facility
Activities of Daily Living -
✅ Functions and tasks for self care such as ambulation, bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, and
toileting
, ADL -
✅ Activities of Daily Living
Administrator -
✅ An individual at least 21 years of age who is responsible for the operation and maintenance of
an assisted living facility.
Standard License -
✅ Facilities which are licensed to provide routine personal care services.
ECC -
✅ Extended Congregate Care
Extended Congregate Care License -
✅ Can be requested by a facility that has been licensed as an assisted living facility for 2 or more
years and that provides services, directly or through contract, beyond the standard license and LNS
license including being able to provide total catheter care, all oxygen services, and any type of tube
feedings.
LNS -
✅ Limited Nursing Services
Limited Nursing Services License -
✅ Provide services beyond standard including conducting passive range of motion exercises, apply
ice caps and collars, apply heat, performing ear and eye irrigations, conduct urine dipstick test, and
cutting toenails of diabetic residents when approved by their healthcare provider. Residents can also
receive licensed nursing assistance with replacement of a indwelling urinary catheter or the
performance of intermittent urinary catheterizations can be performed by licensed personnel,
perform digital stool removal, and the applying and changing of routine dressings that do not require
packing or irrigation but are abrasions, skin tears, and closed surgical wounds.
Specialty Licenses -
✅ ECC, LNS, LMH
Study Guide
Assisted Living Facility -
✅ A facility that is operated and regulated as a residential environment not medical that provides
housing, meals, and one or more personal services for a period exceeding 24 hours to one or more
adults who are not relatives of the owner or administrator.
Renewal License -
✅ Must be completed at least 60 days and no more than 120 days before current license expires.
CHOW -
✅ Change of Ownership
Initial Licensure CHOW -
✅ Must be received at least 60 days prior to the change of ownership
Omitted Information Licensure -
✅ Must be submitted within 21 days after the request from the agency is made.
The Agency for Healthcare Administration -
✅ Also, "the agency", AHCA, Agency Central Office
Length of ALF Licensure -
✅ Licensing is biennial unless a shorter license period is specified.
ALF -
✅ Assisted Living Facility
Activities of Daily Living -
✅ Functions and tasks for self care such as ambulation, bathing, dressing, eating, grooming, and
toileting
, ADL -
✅ Activities of Daily Living
Administrator -
✅ An individual at least 21 years of age who is responsible for the operation and maintenance of
an assisted living facility.
Standard License -
✅ Facilities which are licensed to provide routine personal care services.
ECC -
✅ Extended Congregate Care
Extended Congregate Care License -
✅ Can be requested by a facility that has been licensed as an assisted living facility for 2 or more
years and that provides services, directly or through contract, beyond the standard license and LNS
license including being able to provide total catheter care, all oxygen services, and any type of tube
feedings.
LNS -
✅ Limited Nursing Services
Limited Nursing Services License -
✅ Provide services beyond standard including conducting passive range of motion exercises, apply
ice caps and collars, apply heat, performing ear and eye irrigations, conduct urine dipstick test, and
cutting toenails of diabetic residents when approved by their healthcare provider. Residents can also
receive licensed nursing assistance with replacement of a indwelling urinary catheter or the
performance of intermittent urinary catheterizations can be performed by licensed personnel,
perform digital stool removal, and the applying and changing of routine dressings that do not require
packing or irrigation but are abrasions, skin tears, and closed surgical wounds.
Specialty Licenses -
✅ ECC, LNS, LMH
