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✔✔RCA AIT comprehensive care requirements - ✔✔Minimum of 80 hours in CCF to
cover:
Medicare/Medicaid
CCF organization and coordination of services
Assessments and care plans
✔✔Time guidelines for AIT - ✔✔min/week: 20
max/day: 10
mini/entire program: 6 months
max/entire program: 12 months
total of 1040 hours for HFA
total of 860 hours for HFA
may serve up to 20% of AIT at facility other than preceptor's
✔✔Preceptor requirements - ✔✔Must file new application for each AIT applicant
Have attended, within the 5 years prior, a board approved educational program
Actively worked as HFA/RCA for at least 2 of the immediate preceding three years or be
current CEO of CCRC or current regional manager for multi facility organization and at
AIT's location at least 60% of the time
No board disciplinary action within the last 2 years
Maintain AIT records for 5 years
Can only supervise one AIT at a time, except for when the AIT is enrolled in an
approved training center
✔✔CEU requirements - ✔✔40 hours, two year period
HCAD college courses can count; 1 semester=15 hours 1 quarter=10 hours
Service on state board counts as one CEU for each
hour worked
2 CEUs earned for each month of being a preceptor
(all 3 capped at 20 hours)
Retain certificates of completion for 3 years following the two year licensing period
5 years for the CEU approved sponsors
✔✔Approval for CEU sponsor - ✔✔Must file application with board and be approved at
least 30 days before date of first presentation (can be waived on case by case basis)
Responsible for monitoring attendance
Approval is valid for max of 1 year, automatically expires on Jan 31st of each year
✔✔Exemptions for CEUs - ✔✔Submits statements from doctor stating the licensee is
unable to practice due to health
Active military duty
Other circumstances determined by the board
,✔✔Inactive license - ✔✔Can apply to board to have license inactive status, no CEUs
required, may not practice
Less than 3 years inactive: 40 hours of CEUs within 2 year period immediately prior to
reactivation application being filed
More than: make appearance before board, proof of 40 hours of continuing education,
provide employment history during that period
✔✔Who is exempt from CEU sponsorship fee? - ✔✔state/federal agencies
state funded schools
✔✔Price for licensure application, repeat state exam, biannual license renewal,
provisional license, CEU sponsorship application - ✔✔$100
✔✔Price to retake NAB, preceptor app, temporary app - ✔✔$50
✔✔Universal precautions treats all fluids as potentially infectious for: - ✔✔all blood
borne pathogens
✔✔Required policies for universal precautions - ✔✔Require the use of UPCs
sanctions (discipline/dismissal) for not following UPCs
prohibits retaliation against employees
✔✔Abuse - ✔✔any means of physical, mental, or sexual injury on resident, other than
accidental
✔✔ADLs - ✔✔mobility, eating, dressing, bathing, toileting, and transferring
✔✔administration of medications - ✔✔preparation/distribution of medications. Does not
include reminders, cues, or opening medication containers or assistance with eye drops
✔✔advanced directives - ✔✔written instrument, such as a living will or durable power of
attorney for health care, recognized under state law, relating to the provision of health
care when the individual is incapacitated.
✔✔Ambulation - ✔✔walking, once in a standing position
✔✔Assessment - ✔✔identification of an individual's present level of strengths, abilities,
and needs and the conditions that impede the individual's development or functioning.
✔✔bathing - ✔✔washing and drying the body (excluding the back and shampooing the
hair), including: (1) full-body bath;
(2) sponge bath;
(3) preparatory activities;
, (4) transferring into and out of the tub and shower.
✔✔certification - ✔✔MC/MA certified
✔✔cognitive - ✔✔a person's ability: (1) for short and long term memory or recall; (2) to
make decisions regarding the tasks of daily living; and (3) to make self understood.
✔✔comfortable temp - ✔✔71-81
✔✔comprehensive care facility - ✔✔a health facility that provides nursing care, room,
food, laundry, administration of medications, special diets, and treatments and that may
provide rehabilitative and restorative therapies under the order of an attending physician
✔✔comprehensive nursing care - ✔✔includes, but is not limited to, the following: (1)
Intravenous feedings.
(2) Enteral feeding.
(3) Nasopharyngeal and tracheostomy aspiration.
(4) Insertion and sterile irrigation and replacement of suprapubic catheters.
(5) Application of dressings to wounds that: (A) require use of sterile techniques,
packing, or irrigation; or (B) are infected or otherwise complicated.
(6) Treatment of Stages 2, 3, and 4 pressure ulcers or other widespread skin disorders.
(7) Heat treatments that have been specifically ordered by a physician as part of active
treatment and require observation by nurses to adequately evaluate the process. (8)
Initial phases of a regimen involving administration of medical gases.
✔✔developmentally disabled - ✔✔a personal disability that: (1) is attributable to:
(A) intellectual disability, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, or autism;
(B) any other condition found to be closely related to intellectual disability because this
condition results in similar impairment of general intellectual functioning or adaptive
behavior or requires similar treatment and services; or (C) dyslexia resulting from a
disability described in this section; (2) originates before the person is eighteen (18)
years of age; and (3) has continued or is expected to continue indefinitely and
constitutes a substantial handicap to the person's ability to function normally in society.
✔✔Dressing - ✔✔s selecting, obtaining, putting on, fastening, and taking off all items of
clothing, including donning or removing braces and artificial limbs
✔✔eating - ✔✔how a resident ingests and drinks, regardless of self-feeding skills
✔✔grooming - ✔✔maintaining personal hygiene, including the following:
(1) Preparatory activities.
(2) Combing hair.
(3) Washing and drying face, hands, and perineum.
(4) Brushing teeth.
(5) If applicable, shaving or applying makeup