What are the continuing education requirements for a care coordinator and an aide in an Alzheimers Special Care Unit?
As with other special care unit staff, the care coordinator and aide would have to have 12 hours of continuing education annually. Six of those hours would have to be dementia specific. The additional six hours would have to be in the area of medication administration for the care coordinator since that is a supervisory position. The same is true for the aide if the aide administers medication. Other wise, the aide could take the remaining six hours of required continuing education in areas related to the care of older or disabled adults.
