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COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies)

MarylandregulationMaryland Department of Health, Office of Health Care Quality (OHCQ)

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The agency must ensure aide training includes recognition of situations requiring registered nurse referral, such as significant changes in a client's condition. (COMAR 10.07.05.11C)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))
  • 2The agency must ensure that individuals it refers to provide care are trained appropriately to provide the care needed by the agency's clients. (COMAR 10.07.05.11A)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))
  • 3The agency must ensure aide training includes CPR certification, standard infection control precautions, and prevention of abuse and neglect. (COMAR 10.07.05.11C)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))
  • 4The agency must ensure aide training includes recordkeeping procedures, ethical conduct, and confidentiality of client information. (COMAR 10.07.05.11C)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))
  • 5The agency must obtain written approval from the Office of Health Care Quality before accepting aide training obtained from an external source. (COMAR 10.07.05.11B)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))
  • 6The agency must ensure that minimum training for individuals providing care in clients' homes includes instruction and supervised practice in personal care services for the sick or disabled. (COMAR 10.07.05.11C)(COMAR 10.07.05.11 - Training (Residential Service Agencies))

Applies to: home care / personal care (agency-directed in-home care provided by Residential Service Agencies)

COMAR 10.07.05.11 (Training) governs the training a Maryland Residential Service Agency must ensure for individuals who provide in-home personal care to its clients. The agency must ensure referred individuals are appropriately trained; external training must be approved in writing by the Office of Health Care Quality; and, at a minimum, training must cover supervised personal care practice, recognition of situations requiring RN referral, recordkeeping, ethics/confidentiality, CPR, standard infection control precautions, and abuse/neglect prevention.

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