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(3) 16 years of age if the individual will serve only as a care provider and has access to assistance from the administrator or another care provider who is at least 21 years of age. (b) An administrator shall ensure and document that each care provider, within the first 14 days of employment, is oriented to the assisted living home’s policies and procedures, including emergency procedures, fire safety, resident rights, prohibition against abuse, neglect, exploitation, and mistreatment of residents, recognition of abuse, neglect, exploitation, and mistreatment of residents, reporting requirements under AS 47.24.010, universal precautions for infection control, biohazards, applicable state regulations and statutes, resident interaction, any house rules established under AS 47.33.060, sanitation, duties and responsibilities, medication management and security, and physical plant layout. Before caring for a resident without direct supervision, a care provider shall receive the orientation required in this subsection and, unless the care provider has sufficient documented experience working with the population of residents to be served, shall work under the direct supervision of the administrator or an experienced care provider who is at least 21 years of age for not less than three complete work days. Direct supervision must be documented in the personnel file of the supervised care provider. (c) For purposes of this section, “direct supervision” means that the administrator, or a care provider who is at least 21 years of age and has received the training required under this chapter, is present in the same building as the individual being supervised and available for consultation or assistance. (Eff. 7/1/95, Register 134; am 9/28/2001, Register 159; am 4/6/2002, Register 162; am 6/24/2004, Register 170; am 3/7/2009, Register 189) Statutory Authority: Authority: AS 47.05.300 AS 47.05.330 AS 47.32.030
AS 47.05.310 AS 47.05.340 AS 47.33.010
AS 47.05.320 AS 47.32.010 Editor’s note: Effective July 1, 2022, Executive Order 121 split the former Department of Health and Social Services into the Department of Health and the Department of Family and Community Services. As of Register 242 (July 2022), the regulations attorney made a conforming technical revision under sec. 138, E.O. 121 and AS 44.62.125(b)(6), to 7 AAC 75.240. In addition, the regulations attorney made conforming technical changes to the authority citation by substituting references to AS 47.05.300, 47.05.310, 47.05.320, 47.05.330, 47.05.340, AS 47.32.010, and 47.32.030 for the references to former AS 47.33,100, 47.33.410, and 47.33.920 (repealed 2005).