NRS449.093. Training to recognize and prevent abuse of older persons: Persons required to receive; frequency; topics; costs; actions for failure to complete.

      1.  An applicant for a license to operate a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care must receive training to recognize and prevent the abuse of older persons before a license to operate such a facility, agency or home is issued to the applicant. If an applicant has completed such training within the year preceding the date of the application for a license and the application includes evidence of the training, the applicant shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of this subsection.

      2.  A licensee who holds a license to operate a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care must annually receive training to recognize and prevent the abuse of older persons before the license to operate such a facility, agency or home may be renewed.

      3.  If an applicant or licensee who is required by this section to obtain training is not a natural person, the person in charge of the facility, agency or home must receive the training required by this section.

      4.  An administrator or other person in charge of a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care must receive training to recognize and prevent the abuse of older persons before the facility, agency or home provides care to a person and annually thereafter.

      5.  An employee who will provide care to a person in a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care must receive training to recognize and prevent the abuse of older persons before the employee provides care to a person in the facility, agency or home and annually thereafter.

      6.  The topics of instruction that must be included in the training required by this section must include, without limitation:

      (a) Recognizing the abuse of older persons, including sexual abuse and violations of NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive;

      (b) Responding to reports of the alleged abuse of older persons, including sexual abuse and violations of NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive; and

      (c) Instruction concerning the federal, state and local laws, and any changes to those laws, relating to:

             (1) The abuse of older persons; and

             (2) Facilities for intermediate care, facilities for skilled nursing, agencies to provide personal care services in the home, facilities for the care of adults during the day, residential facilities for groups or homes for individual residential care, as applicable for the person receiving the training.

      7.  The facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care is responsible for the costs related to the training required by this section.

      8.  The administrator of a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing or residential facility for groups who is licensed pursuant to chapter 654 of NRS shall ensure that each employee of the facility who provides care to residents has obtained the training required by this section. If an administrator or employee of a facility or home does not obtain the training required by this section, the Division shall notify the Board of Examiners for Long-Term Care Administrators that the administrator is in violation of this section.

      9.  The holder of a license to operate a facility for intermediate care, facility for skilled nursing, agency to provide personal care services in the home, facility for the care of adults during the day, residential facility for groups or home for individual residential care shall ensure that each person who is required to comply with the requirements for training pursuant to this section complies with such requirements. The Division may, for any violation of this section, take disciplinary action against a facility, agency or home pursuant to NRS 449.160 and 449.163.

      (Added to NRS by 2011, 2248)