75 Hours Home Care Aide Training (For Home Care Agency)

This course is best suited for those working for home care agencies. The training does not include Classroom Dementia and Mental Health Specialty Training. Specialty Training is not a required component of the 75-hour training but if you work in assisted living facility or an adult family home you are going to be required to have a Specialty certificate. The following classes make up the 75 hours:

• Orientation Training: 2 hours of introductory information orienting new workers to the care setting and job.
• Safety Training: 3 hours of introductory information on safety practices.
• Core basic training – 58 hours Training covering the basic skills and information needed to provide hands on personal care.
• Population specific basic training – 12 hours Training tailored to a specific group of clients and their unique care needs due to their disease, condition and/or stage of life. Population specific training includes:

Nurse Delegation Core Basic: (9 hours):

• • This course provides basics for RN delegated tasks such as medication assistance, and patient specific procedures per rules and regulations regarding nurse delegation.

• Nurse Delegation; Special Focus on Diabetes: (3 hours)

This self-study course is designed for nursing assistants who:

• Are registered or certified (NA-R’s or NA-C’s).
• Have successfully completed the Nurse Delegation for Nursing Assistants Self-Study Training Course.
• Need this additional, required training to administer insulin injections under nurse delegation