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Training Requirements & Classes - Continuing Education

This section is for adult family homes, assisted living facilities, and community instructors (including home care agencies wanting to offer CE to their own staff) wanting to offer long term care worker continuing education (CE).

As of 7/1/2012, all long term care workers (LTC) must complete 12 hours of CE. DSHS must approve all CE curriculum (training materials) and CE instructors.

CE Requirements

• Who is required to take CE and when

What you need to know to:

• Submit materials YOU developed for approval
  Policies impacting what you can submit as CE

• Use approved CEs developed by:
  • DSHS
    RFOC, specialty, or nurse delegation courses
  • Other businesses or training programs
• Apply CPR/First Aide training hours as CE
• Food Safety and Food Worker Care Renewal
• On-line CE Standards
  Curriculum standards that must be met when submitting on-line CEs

• Document CE completion – creating a CE training certificate
  What has to be on a CE training certificate, including a sample template

Find Approved CE

• Businesses offering approved CE curriculum
  Use CE materials already approved that you teach (classroom and online).

• DSHS developed curriculum approved for CE
  Use DSHS developed curriculum for CE, including which courses and how to get it approved for your training program.

• Conferences or seminars approved for CE

• Take CE courses from an approved Community Instructor
  Send workers to an approved independent instructor offering CE

Apply to Offer CE

AFHs, ALFs or home care agencies must be an approved Training Program with at least one CE instructor and approved CE training materials to offer CE unless using CE community instructors to teach your staff. 

Step	How This is Done	Form Needed
Step 1.  Understand the CE requirements	Review CE Requirement links above
Step 2:  Apply to offer CE	Fill out and submit a training program application or training program update form to list CE as a course you want to offer and list CE instructors. You must be a DSHS approved training program with at least one CE instructor to offer CE.	Training Program Applications for AFHs/ALFs TPA Form TPA UPDATE Form Use to add CE to an existing approved training program. Training Program Applications for Community Instructors TPC Form First time applicants Contract Intake Form First time applicants only TPC Update Form Use to add CE to an existing approved training program.
Step 3: Get NEW CE curriculum approved	Fill out and submit a CE Approval form to get new CE training materials approved.  If you plan on using CE that is already approved, complete Steps 1 and 2 only.	CE Approval Form