Ch. 26, § 17. Staff

(a) A center may not permit a staff member to provide a service unless: (i) The staff member possesses the necessary education, training, experience, licensure, and certifications; and (ii) The staff member is certified in Basic Life Support (BLS) and has required training in bloodborne pathogens. (b) A center shall employ sufficient staff to allow for: (i) A practitioner, CNM or CPM to be on-site at the center when patients are present; (ii) A practitioner to be on-call and immediately available by telephone or radio if there is no practitioner on-site at the center; and (iii) An adequate number of practitioners, RNs or CPMs to be available on-call to meet the emergency needs of patients in a timely manner. (c) A center shall require all direct care center staff to submit to a Child & Adult Abuse/Neglect Central Registry Screen, through the Wyoming Department of Family Services, and a full fingerprint-based national criminal background check. (i) If a direct care staff member is found to have previously committed abuse/neglect or a criminal offence, the center must not allow the staff member to work independently and unsupervised unless the center: (A) Investigates the conduct at issue in a thorough manner; (B) Determines, based on the findings of its investigation, that the direct care staff member may be allowed to have unsupervised access to patients and the center's operational systems; and (C) Maintains documentation of its investigation and determination in the direct care staff member's subsequent personnel file.