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11 Senator Saunders moved the following amendment:
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13 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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15 page 21, line 2, delete those lines
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18 Section 9. Subsection (4) of section 400.211, Florida
19 Statutes, is amended to read:
20 400.211 Persons employed as nursing assistants;
21 certification requirement.--
22 (4) When employed by a nursing home facility for a
23 12-month period or longer, a nursing assistant, to maintain
24 certification, shall submit to a performance review every 12
25 months and must receive regular inservice education based on
26 the outcome of these such reviews. The inservice training
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28 (a) Be sufficient to ensure the continuing competence
29 of nursing assistants, must be at least 12 18 hours per year,
30 and may include hours accrued under s.464.203(7) s.
31 464.203(8);
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1 (b) Include, at a minimum:
2 1. Techniques for assisting with eating and proper
3 feeding;
4 2. Principles of adequate nutrition and hydration;
5 3. Techniques for assisting and responding to the
6 cognitively impaired resident or the resident with difficult
7 behaviors;
8 4. Techniques for caring for the resident at the
9 end-of-life; and
10 5. Recognizing changes that place a resident at risk
11 for pressure ulcers and falls; and
12 (c) Address areas of weakness as determined in nursing
13 assistant performance reviews and may address the special
14 needs of residents as determined by the nursing home facility
15 staff.
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17 Costs associated with this training may not be reimbursed from
18 additional Medicaid funding through interim rate adjustments.
19 Section 10. Subsection (5) of section 400.215, Florida
20 Statutes, is amended to read:
21 400.215 Personnel screening requirement.--
22 (5) Any provision of law to the contrary
23 notwithstanding, persons who have been screened and qualified
24 as required by this section or s. 464.203 and who have not
25 been unemployed for more than 180 days thereafter, and who
26 under penalty of perjury attest to not having been convicted
27 of a disqualifying offense since the completion of such
28 screening, shall not be required to be rescreened. For
29 purposes of this subsection, screened and qualified under s.
30 464.203 means that the person subject to such screening at the
31 time of certification by the Board of Nursing does not have
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1 any disqualifying offense under chapter 435 or has received an
2 exemption from any disqualification under chapter 435 from the
3 Board of Nursing. An employer may obtain, under pursuant to s.
4 435.10, written verification of qualifying screening results
5 from the previous employer or other entity which caused the
6 such screening to be performed.
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12 And the title is amended as follows:
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16 correcting a cross-reference; amending s.
17 400.215, F.S.; providing that a person who has
18 been screened under certain provisions of law
19 is not required to be rescreened to be employed
20 in a nursing home;
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