PERSONAL CARE HOME ADMINISTRATOR TRAINING
GET THE HEALTH CARE TRAINING YOU NEED AT PENN STATE
You bring your best to everything you do - for your patients, your staff, and yourself. Penn State has the accredited programs that you need, in convenient one-day formats that will fit your busy schedule.
• Complete the required initial 100-hour Personal Care Home
Administrator Training and exam.
• Satisfy continuing education hours with a variety of professional
development courses for nurses, administrators, direct-care staff,
and other health care professionals.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Courses are offered simultaneously at all eight locations through video conferencing.
Penn State Altoona
Altoona, PA
Penn State DuBois
Dubois, PA
Penn State Fayette
Uniontown, PA
Penn State Greater Allegheny
McKeesport, PA
Penn State Lehigh Valley
Center Valley, PA
Penn State Northern Tier
Towanda, PA
Penn State Schuylkill
Schuylkill Haven, PA
Penn State Worthington-Scranton
Dumore, PA
Courses will be held
April 8 - May 15, 2014
Tuesdays and Thursdays
All persons who wish to become administrators; current administrators; and direct-care staff.
In addition, nurses and personal care home administrators can select courses within the 100-hour training to fulfill their continuing education requirements.
Penn State College of Nursing is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
CONTINUING EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS
Personal care home administrators are required to complete twenty-four hours of continuing education per year; nursing home administrators, forty-eight hours every two years; RN’s, thirty hours every two years.
These courses are approved by the State Department of Public Welfare for personal care home administrators, by the Nursing Home Administration, and by the Pennsylvania State Nurses Association to fulfill your required continuing education hours.
FEE AND REGISTRATION
The course fees range from $40 to $180 per course. The complete 100-hour course, including the exam, is $1,425. Courses may be taken individually. The fees must be paid when you register. To register, complete the enclosed registration form and mail or fax it to the Penn State address listed on the form.
ATTENDANCE AND CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT HOURS
Accurate records of attendance will be maintained to verify and report the continuing education credit hours. Upon your completion of the series, a certificate of completion will be mailed to you.
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