Section 388-112-0005. What definitions apply to this chapter?

"Activities of daily living," in the context of this chapter, means self-care abilities related to personal care such as bathing, eating, using the toilet, dressing, and transfer. Instrumental activities of daily living may also be used to assess a person's functional abilities in the home and the community such as cooking, shopping, house cleaning, doing laundry, working, and managing personal finances.

"Applicant," for the purposes of this chapter, means:

(1) An individual who is applying for an adult family home license; or

(2) An individual with an ownership interest in a partnership, corporation, or other entity that is applying for an adult family home license.

"Care team" includes the resident and everyone involved in his or her care. The care team can include family, friends, doctors, nurses, long-term care workers, social workers and case managers. The role of the care team is to support the well-being of the resident, however, the resident directs the service plan when able.

"Certified home care aide" means a person who has obtained and maintains a home care aide certification through the department of health.

"Challenge test" means a competency test taken for specialty training without first taking the class for which the test is designed.

"Competency" defines the integrated knowledge, skills, or behavior expected of a long-term care worker after completing the training in a required topic area. Learning objectives are associated with each competency.

"Competency testing" including challenge testing, is evaluating a student to determine if they can demonstrate the required level of skill, knowledge, and/or behavior with respect to the identified learning objectives of a particular course.

"DDD" refers to the division of developmental disabilities.

"Designee" means a person in assisted living facility who supervises long-term care workers and who is designated by assisted living facility administrator to take the trainings in this chapter required of the assisted living facility administrator. A assisted living facility administrator may have more than one designee.

"Direct care worker" means a paid individual who provides direct, personal care services to persons with disabilities or the elderly requiring long-term care.

"Direct supervision" means oversight by a person who has demonstrated competency in the basic training (and specialty training if required), or has been exempted from the basic training requirements, is on the premises, and is quickly available to the caregiver.

"DSHS" or "department" refers to the department of social and health services.

"Enhancement" means additional time provided for skills practice and additional training materials or classroom activities that help a worker to thoroughly learn the course content and skills. Enhancements can include new student materials, videos or DVDs, online materials, and/or additional student activities.

"Entity representative" means the individual designated by an adult family home provider who is or will be responsible for the daily operations of an adult family home.

"Guardian" means an individual as defined in chapter 11.88 RCW.

"Home" refers to adult family homes and assisted living facilities.

"Indirect supervision" means oversight by a person who has demonstrated competency in the basic training, or who has been exempted from the basic training requirements, and who is quickly and easily available to the long-term care worker, but not necessarily on-site.

"Learning objectives" are measurable, written statements that clearly describe what a long-term care worker must minimally learn to meet each competency. Learning objectives are identified for each competency. Learning objectives provide consistent, common language and a framework for curriculum designers, the curriculum approval process, and testing.

"Long-term care worker" includes all persons providing paid, personal care services for the elderly or persons with disabilities, including individual providers of home care services, direct care employees of home care agencies, providers of home care services to persons with developmental disabilities under Title 71A RCW, all direct care workers in state-licensed assisted living facilities, adult family homes, respite care providers, community residential service providers, and any other direct care staff providing home or community-based services to the elderly or persons with functional disabilities or developmental disabilities.

The following persons are not long-term care workers:

(1) Persons who are:

(a) Providing personal care services to individuals who are not receiving state-funded services; and

(b) The person is not employed by an agency or facility that is licensed by the state.

(2) Persons employed by:

(a) Nursing homes licensed under chapter 18.51 RCW;

(b) Facilities certified under 42 C.F.R. Part 483;

(c) Residential habilitation centers under chapter 71A.20 RCW;

(d) Hospitals or other acute care settings;

(e) Hospice agencies licensed under chapter 70.127 RCW;

(f) Adult day care centers or adult day health centers.

(3) Persons whose services are exclusively limited to assistance with "instrumental activities of daily living," as that term is defined in WAC 388-106-0010.

"Personal care services" means physical or verbal assistance with activities of daily living, or activities of daily living and instrumental activities of daily living which is provided to meet resident's care needs.

"Provider" means any person or entity who is licensed by the department to operate an adult family home or assisted living facility, or certified by the department to provide instruction and support services to meet the needs of persons receiving services under Title 71A RCW.

"Resident" means a person residing and receiving long-term care services at an assisted living facility or adult family home. As applicable, the term resident also means the resident's legal guardian or other surrogate decision maker.

"Resident manager" means a person employed or designated by the provider to manage the adult family home who meets the requirements in WAC 388-76-10000 and this chapter.

"Routine interaction" means contact with residents that happens regularly.

"Training entity" means an organization, including an independent contractor, who is providing or may provide training under this section using approved curriculum. Training entities may only deliver approved curriculum.

[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.08.090, 74.09.520. WSR 13-02-023, § 388-112-0005, filed 12/20/12, effective 1/20/13. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.090, 70.128.040, 74.39A.050, 34.05.020, 2000 c 121, and 2002 c 233. WSR 02-15-065, § 388-112-0005, filed 7/11/02, effective 8/11/02.]

RCW 74.08.090, 74.09.520. WSR 13-02-023, § 388-112-0005, filed 12/20/12, effective 1/20/13. Statutory Authority: RCW 18.20.090, 70.128.040, 74.39A.050, 34.05.020, 2000 c 121, and 2002 c 233. WSR 02-15-065, § 388-112-0005, filed 7/11/02, effective 8/11/02.

Rules

388-106-0010,388-76-10000,