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...quired by this chapter, each long-term care facility shall provide both of the following to each nurse aide it uses: (A) An orientation program that includes at least an explanation of the organizational structure of the facility, its policies and procedures, its philosophy of care, a description of its resident population, and an enumeration of its employee rules; (B) Regular performance review and in-servic...

...a) Basic nursing skills; (b) Personal care skills; (c) Recognition of mental health and social service needs; (d) Care of residents with cognitive impairments; (e) Basic restorative services; (f) Residents' rights; (g) Any other area specified by rule of the director. (2) Any training and competency evaluation program approved or competency evaluation program conducted by the director may include a writ...

...m care facilities, or by any government agency or person, including an employee organization. (3) The director shall not approve or reapprove a training and competency evaluation program conducted by or in a long-term care facility that was determined by the director or the United States secretary of health and human services to have been out of compliance with the requirements of subsection (b), (c), or (d) of sec...

...proved by the board of nursing or by an agency of another state that regulates nursing education, have provided the long-term care facility with a certificate from the program indicating that the individual has successfully completed the courses that teach basic nursing skills including infection control, safety and emergency procedures, and personal care, and have successfully completed a competency evaluation progr...

...Except for any fee collected and retained by a testing service under contract pursuant to division (C) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code, all fees collected under section 3721.31 of the Revised Code shall be deposited in the state treasury to the credit of the nurse aide training fund, which is hereby created. The moneys in the fund shall be used solely for the purposes set forth in sections 3721.28 to 3721.32 o...

...th, or enter into agreements with state agencies, political subdivisions, the federal government, or any person. The director may enter into agreements that provide for a state agency to do any of the following: (A) Approve or reapprove, in accordance with division (A) of section 3721.31 of the Revised Code and the rules adopted by the director under section 3721.30 of the Revised Code, competency evaluation progra...

...onstrued to permit any individual to engage in the practice of nursing as a registered nurse or the practice of nursing as a licensed practical nurse if the individual does not hold a valid license issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code.

... a durable power of attorney for health care executed pursuant to sections 1337.11 to 1337.17 of the Revised Code. (B) "Electronic monitoring device" means a surveillance instrument with a fixed position video camera or an audio recording device, or a combination thereof, that is installed in a resident's room and broadcasts or records activities or sounds occurring in the room. (C) "Guardian" has the same meani...

...e in the resident's room in a long-term care facility. (B) The installation and use of an electronic monitoring device may be authorized only if both of the following conditions are met: (1) If a long-term care facility has prescribed a form described in section 3721.63 of the Revised Code, the resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact completes the form and submits it to the facility. (2) The cost of...

...es with another resident in a long-term care facility, the consent of the other resident or the other resident's guardian or attorney in fact to the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the room is required before any installation or use of such a device may occur. If the long-term care facility has prescribed a form described in section 3721.63 of the Revised Code, the other resident or other r...

...A long-term care facility may prescribe a form for use by a resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact seeking to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in the resident's room in a long-term care facility. If a long-term care facility prescribes a form, it shall, at a minimum, include all of the following: (A) An explanation of sections 3721.60 to 3721.67 of the Revised Code;...

...A long-term care facility may post a notice in a conspicuous place at the entrance to a resident's room with an electronic monitoring device stating that an electronic monitoring device is in use in that room.

...ssion to or discharged from a long-term care facility or otherwise discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device in a resident's room in the facility.

...l intentionally view or listen to the images displayed or sounds recorded by an electronic monitoring device installed in a resident's room: (1) The resident; (2) The resident's guardian or attorney in fact; (3) Law enforcement personnel. (C) A resident or resident's guardian or attorney in fact may authorize a person to view or listen to the images displayed or sounds recorded by an electronic monitoring dev...

...The director of health may adopt rules in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code as necessary to implement sections 3721.60 to 3721.66 of the Revised Code.

...evice is installed by a law enforcement agency and used solely for a bona fide law enforcement purpose.

...(A) As used in this section, "long-term care facility" means all of the following: (1) A home, as defined in section 3721.10 of the Revised Code; (2) A residential facility licensed by the department of mental health and addiction services under section 5119.34 of the Revised Code; (3) A residential facility licensed by the department of developmental disabilities under section 5123.19 of the Revised Code; (4...

...ns by the United States centers for medicare and medicaid services, which shall reduce any civil monetary penalty imposed under this section by the same amount; (5) The home's history of compliance. (D) If the director determines the need for a civil monetary penalty under this section, the director may enter into settlement negotiations with the affected home. Settlements may include any of the following: (...

...y created the environmental protection agency, headed by the director of environmental protection. The agency, under the supervision of the director, shall administer the laws pertaining to chemical emergency planning, community right-to-know, and toxic chemical release reporting; the cessation of chemical handling operations; the prevention, control, and abatement of air and water pollution; public water supp...

...embly that the environmental protection agency shall: (A) Promulgate and put into execution a long term comprehensive plan and program to conserve, protect, and enhance the air, water, and other natural resources of the state; (B) Prevent and abate pollution of the environment for the protection and preservation of the health, safety, welfare, and property of the people of the state; (C) Administer the air, w...

...istered by the environmental protection agency under Chapter 3704., 3714., 3734., 6109., or 6111. of the Revised Code. The director shall keep a record of all such moneys collected showing the amounts received, from whom, and for what purpose collected. All such moneys shall be credited to the general revenue fund, except for such moneys required to be credited to any other fund. (B) The director may reduce or waive...

...der the service agreement within thirty days after delivery of the invoice for payment to the appropriate program or activity within the agency, or the other state agency, receiving the goods or services under the agreement. Moneys credited to the fund under this division shall be expended to defray the costs of the programs and activities of the environmental protection agency. (B) Moneys received by the environmen...

...e costs of the environmental protection agency. The director may assess any operating funds from which the agency receives appropriations, except the central support indirect fund, for a share of the administrative costs of the agency. The amounts assessed shall be transferred to the central support indirect fund by means of intrastate transfer vouchers. The director shall determine the rate of assessments.

...ised Code. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to pay the agency's costs associated with administering and enforcing, or otherwise conducting activities under, this chapter and Chapters 3704., 3734., 3746., 3747., 3748., 3750., 3751., 3752., 3753., 5709., 6101., 6103., 6105., 6109., 6111., 6112., 6113., 6115., 6117., and 6119. of the Revised Code, including providing compliance assistance ...

...ributions. The environmental protection agency shall use money in the fund to support the investigation and remediation of contaminated property and implementation of the hazardous waste provisions of Chapter 3734. of the Revised Code.