Vote Smart's Synopsis:

Vote to pass a bill that establishes a new long-term care curriculum for nurse's aides developed by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, increasing the availability of training courses in Pennsylvania.

Highlights:

• Establishes and develops a long-term care curriculum for nurse aides (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes qualifications for individuals to conduct training of the long-term care curriculum (Sec. 1). 

• Establishes a training program to implement a train the-trainer model so that trainers are able to deliver the long-term care curriculum to nurse aides in Pennsylvania (Sec. 1). 

• Requires individuals in the program have 2 years of nursing experience (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies the qualifications of being a nurse aide (Sec. 1). 

• Specifies where a competency evaluation can be done (Sec. 1).

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