(a) A center's staff development programs must:
  (1) facilitate the ability of the staff to function as a member of an IDT that includes health professionals, an adult minor, and a minor's parent;
  (2) improve communication skills to:
    (A) facilitate a collaborative relationship between an adult minor, a minor's parent, and the staff;
    (B) focus on person-centered thinking;
    (C) facilitate positive behavior support; and
    (D) incorporate person-first language;
  (3) increase the understanding of childhood illness and the effects it has on a minor's development, a minor's parent, and a minor's family;
  (4) provide mechanisms and skills for coping with the effects of childhood illness;
  (5) develop case management skills to assist an adult minor and a minor's parent in setting priorities, planning, and implementing a minor's care at home;
  (6) facilitate staff implementation of life-sustaining and assistive technology, provided by the center or by durable medical equipment contractors, used in the care of a minor;
  (7) facilitate the ability of staff to develop an individualized comprehensive plan of care; and
  (8) prepare staff for the response to and management of emergency medical situations in a center.
(b) A center must:
  (1) conduct quarterly staff development programs appropriate to the staff providing services to minors to maintain high quality care; and
  (2) ensure that all center staff providing basic services to minors maintain basic life support certification.
(c) A center must document all staff development programs to include:
  (1) the title and a short summary of the training program;
  (2) date and time;
  (3) name of the trainer; and
  (4) certificate of completion.
(d) A center must maintain the quarterly staff development training program documentation for a period of two years. If the staff development training is specific to services provided to a specific minor, reference to the training must be maintained as part of a minor's medical record.

Source Note: The provisions of this §550.416 adopted to be effective September 1, 2014, 39 TexReg 6569; transferred effective May 1, 2019, as published in the Texas Register April 12, 2019, 44 TexReg 1875