Continuing Education - Health Services Staff

DEPARTMENT
OF
CORRECTION

DIRECTIVE NUMBER:

401.06.03.026

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SUBJECT:

Continuing Education –
Health Services Staff

Adopted: 11-02-98
Reformatted: 02-2001

INSTITUTIONAL
SERVICES
DIVISION
01.00.00. POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT

It is the policy of the Idaho Board of Correction that the Department of Correction
ensure proper medical, dental, psychiatric and psychological services and treatment be
provided to inmates incarcerated under its jurisd iction, including those state-sentenced
offenders held in non-IDOC facilities.

02.00.00. TABLE OF CONTENTS

01.00.00. POLICY OF THE DEPARTMENT
02.00.00. TABLE OF CONTENTS
03.00.00. REFERENCES
04.00.00. DEFINITIONS
05.00.00. PROCEDURE

03.00.00. REFERENCES

Standards for Adult Correctional Institutions, Third Edition, Standard 3 -4351.

Standards for Health Services in Prisons, P -19, 26.

04.00.00. DEFINITIONS

Facility Health Authority: The on-site Health Authority or senior health staff assigned.

Medical Authority: Idaho Department of Correction Health Services Chief.

Medical Director: A physician (M.D.) either employed by the Idaho Department of
Correction or the physician in charge if medical services are privatized.

Regional Health Manager: The individual assigned as the primary manager who is
administratively responsible for the delivery of medical services if health services are
privatized.

DIRECTIVE NUMBER:
401.06.03.026

SUBJECT: Continuing Education
– Health Services Staff

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05.00.00. PROCEDURE

Medical administrative and support staff will receive at least 12 hours of training
annually.

The training will be documented for verification on each staff member.

Continuing education hours may include on-site instruction by health services staff,
programs offered and presented by the IDOC, formal presentation by community
sources or participation in programs such as the NCCHC conferences.

Documentation should include a list of courses attended.

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Administrator, Institutional Services Division Date