Nurse Aide Training: Choosing Your Best Option!

CTE Summer Conference 2014

CTE Administrators Session

Monday – July 14, 2014

10:15am – 12:15pm

Location: Imperial D – Koury Center

It takes a village…

Panel: • Kathy Turner – DHSR / CARE• CARE Consultants• CTE Directors: Chris Bailey, Chip

Lucas, others• Lisa Eads, NC CC CCP Coordinator• Rob Hines, NCDPI CCP Coordinator• Community College Participants

In the beginning…

• Approved NA I training in NCDPI high schools began SY 89-90

• High School Health Occupations Teachers received this memo 11-20-1989

• DHSR MOU 8-1-1995

June 19, 2002 – Cumberland County Involvement

August 1, 1995 This memorandum of understanding (hereinafter referred to as "MOU") establishes the basis for cooperation between the North Carolina Department of Human Resources, Division of Facility Services, (hereinafter referred to as "DFS") and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction, Vocational and Technical Education (hereinafter referred to as "DPI") in maintaining the quality of nurse aide training in North Carolina.

Traditional NC High School Nurse Aide Training

• Funded with “high school” funding streams

• Oversight by NCDPI via MOU with DHSR

• Complies with OBRA and DHSR• Teachers become DPI licensed high

school teachers

NAI training options for high

school students NOW

Aide Training Nurse

Effective January 1, 2012

Career Technical Education Pathway

Career and College Promise (CCP) provides dual enrollment educational opportunities for eligible NC high school students in order to accelerate completion of college certificates, diplomas, and associate degrees that lead to college transfer or provide entry-level jobs.

January 1, 2012

Supplanting? NO

LEAs may have BOTH traditional high school funded and CCP nurse aide training!

CCP requirements for Nurse Aide Training students

To be eligible for enrollment, a high school student must meet the following criteria: • Be a high school junior or senior; • Have a weighted GPA of 3.0 on high school

courses or have the recommendation of the high school principal or his/her designee; and

• Meet the prerequisites for the career (not NCDPI) pathway. (Pathway of the Community College)

• High school counselors should consider students’ PLAN scores in making pathway recommendations.

CCP NAT students will take

• NAS101Nurse Aide I (6 sem credit)• NAS102Nurse Aide II (6 sem credit)

BON regulation (CC has exemption)• NAS103 Home Health Care (2 sem

credit)

14 semester hours

Nurse Aide Training

CCP NAIIs cannot work as a NAII until they have graduated from high school. (True of ALL NAIIs)

Career College PromiseNurse Aide Training for High Schools

• Funded with “community college” funding streams

• Oversight by DHSR / NOT DPI• Complies with OBRA and DHSR• Teachers on the “curriculum

side” of the community college• CC earn FTEs• Tuition is waved for CCP students

NURSE AIDE TRAINING Program Regulation

Regulatory OVERSIGHT…

• Kathy Turner – DHSR / Center for Aide Regulation and Education, Manager

• CARE Consultants – Next Slide

Western Region

Gaynelle RogersWestern Region

Gaynelle Rogers

Piedmont Region

Jan MiddletonPiedmont Region

Jan Middleton

Triangle Region

Vickie ForeTriangle Region

Vickie Fore

Coastal Region

Teressa BanksCoastal Region

Teressa Banks

NC Division of Health Service Regulation

CENTER FOR AIDE REGULATION AND

EDUCATION (CARE)

REGIONS

Piedmont RegionJan Middleton828-578-0484

Piedmont RegionJan Middleton828-578-0484

Triangle RegionVickie Fore919-855-3985

Triangle RegionVickie Fore919-855-3985

Coastal RegionTeressa Banks252-974-0150

Coastal RegionTeressa Banks252-974-0150

Alamance

Alexander

Alleghany

Anson

Ashe

Avery

Beaufort

Bertie

Bladen

Brunswick

Buncombe

Burke

Cabarrus

Caldwell

Cam

den

Carteret

Caswell

CatawbaChatham

Cherokee

Chow

an

Clay

Cleveland

Columbus

Craven

Cumberland

Currituck

DareDavidson

Davie

Duplin

Durham

Edgecombe

Forsyth Franklin

Gaston

Gates

Graham

Granville

Greene

Guilford

Halifax

Harnett

Haywood

Henderson

Hertford

Hoke

Hyde

Iredell

Jackson

Johnston

Jones

Lee

Lenoir

Lincoln

McDowell

Macon

MadisonMartin

Mecklenburg

Mitchell

MontgomeryMoore

Nash

New Hanover

Northampton

Onslow

Orange

Pamlico

Pasquotank

Pender

Perquimans

Person

Pitt

Polk

Randolph

Richmond

Robeson

Rockingham

Rowan

Rutherford

Sampson

Scotland

Stanly

StokesSurry

Swain

Transylvania

Tyrrell

Union

VanceWarren

Washington

Watauga

Wayne

Wilkes

Wilson

Yadkin

Yancey

Wake

Sampson

Western RegionGaynelle Rogers828-251-6335

Western RegionGaynelle Rogers828-251-6335

Nurse Aide Training

Young juniors who become NAI will not be old enough to work and their listing will expire!

• There is no DHSR oversight regarding prerequisite being met.

• LEA/High School counselors must assure prerequisites are met!

• Understand Health Care Personnel Registry laws

Career College PromiseNurse Aide Training for High Schools

• Guided Discussion

Proprietary SchoolsNurse Aide Training

• For-profit businesses which provide vocational education and training

• Oversight by DHSR / NOT DPI• Complies with OBRA and DHSR – patient

protection• Complies with NC Proprietary School

laws – student protection• Licensed by Office of Proprietary

Schools / State Board of Community College

“OTHER” possibly unwholesomeNurse Aide Training• For-profit businesses • Oversight: NO• Complies with OBRA and DHSR: NO• Licensed by Office of Proprietary

Schools / State Board of Community College: NO, but almost always fall under requirement/law to be licensed. As the public reports these programs to DHSR, they are reported to Attorney General.

How Will I Know?

• List of DHSR-approved Nurse Aide I Training Programs (updated monthly) - http://www.ncdhhs.gov/dhsr/hcpr/pdf/trainingprograms.pdf

• List of Licensed Proprietary Schools - http://www.nccommunitycolleges.edu/sites/default/files/basic-page-file-uploads/proprietary-schools/directory_0.pdf

Reminders:

• When a high school that has previously done traditional training, moves to CCP training, please notify the NCDPI office. NAT number must be withdrawn

• Students test as a community college student, not high school student

Reminders: Cont.

• May have more than one type of NAI training.

• PearsonVue NNAAP reports go to the CTE Directors for Traditional HS NAT. Notify Agnes if contact changes.

Thanks for your participation!