Tougher rules proposed to certify nurse aides
Thursday, February 7th, 2008.
Fort Worth, TX - Nurse aides banned from Texas nursing homes for theft, abuse and neglect of residents could no longer get the state’s seal of approval, according to new rules the state has proposed.
The plan would also help prevent certification of nurse aides who have been convicted of offenses such as murder, robbery and rape.
The changes are intended to address dangerous lapses in state oversight that the Star-Telegram identified in September. The examination found that the Texas Department of Aging and Disability Services recertifies nurse aides even after it bans them from ever working at state-regulated nursing homes. Aides banned for bilking $119,000 from an elderly woman, slapping a blind man and failing to perform CPR on a resident, who died, all were recertified, the paper’s examination found.
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