Training and Guidance for Nursing Home Health Surveyors

  This section of the questionnaire pertains to both state and federal training unless otherwise specified.
 

4. Do you believe that state and federal initial surveyor training, when combined, is sufficient to enable nursing home health surveyors in this state to identify deficiencies according to CMS guidelines?
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5. Do you believe that state and federal initial surveyor training, when combined, is sufficient to enable nursing home health surveyors in this state to cite the appropriate scope and severity level according to CMS guidelines?
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6. Do you believe improvements are needed in the state initial surveyor training program?
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7. Do you believe improvements are needed in the federal initial surveyor training program?
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8. Is there training in any of the following areas that nursing home health surveyors need to do their job better?
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  a. How to apply CMS guidance
  b. How to interview nursing home residents
  c. How to identify a deficiency's scope and severity
  d. How to document deficiencies identified by the survey team
  e. Other
   

9. Which of the following materials or training provided by CMS does this state survey agency use regularly?
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