Section 554.1113 - Paid Feeding Assistants(a) State-approved training course. The facility may use a paid feeding assistant, if the paid feeding assistant has successfully completed a state-approved training course that meets the requirements of § 554.1115 of this subchapter (relating to Requirements for Training of Paid Feeding Assistants) before feeding a resident.(b) Supervision. A paid feeding assistant must work under the supervision of an RN or an LVN. In an emergency, a paid feeding assistant must call a supervisory nurse for help. A paid feeding assistant can only feed a resident in the dining room.(c) Resident selection criteria. (1) The facility must ensure that a paid feeding assistant provides dining assistance only for a resident who has no complicated feeding problems, which include difficulty swallowing, recurrent lung aspirations, and tube or parenteral/IV feedings.(2) The facility must base resident selection on the interdisciplinary team's assessment and the resident's latest assessment and comprehensive care plan. A resident's comprehensive care plan must reflect the resident's appropriateness for a paid feeding assistant.26 Tex. Admin. Code § 554.1113
The provisions of this §19.1113 adopted to be effective June 1, 2004, 29 TexReg 5416; Amended by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 12, March 20, 2020, TexReg 2049, eff. 3/24/2020; Entire chapter transferred from Title 40, Pt. 1, Ch. 19 by Texas Register, Volume 45, Number 50, December 11, 2020, TexReg 8871, eff. 1/15/2021