California DSD Guides
Free and sourced. These cover the regulations a Director of Staff Development in a California skilled nursing facility actually works under — including the two or three places the published guidance most often gets the citation wrong.
What Title 22 § 71829 requires of a Director of Staff Development
The section that actually governs the role — the two qualification pathways, the resume-and-approval process with its thirty and sixty day clocks, and the required hours by bed count, where one column is per month and the other per week.
Read it 9 minCalifornia's 24-hour in-service rule, and how it differs from federal law
Where the 24 hours comes from (§ 71847(e), not § 72517), why the federal floor is 12, why the two are counted from different dates, and what the content is required to be about.
Read it 8 minThe records a DSD has to be able to produce
The seven fields § 71849 requires on every attendance record, four-year retention, the F-tags that land on your desk, and why attendance, completion and competence are three different claims.
Read it 8 minThese are extracts. The course is the whole thing.
24 contact hours across ten modules, sourced the same way, ending in a certificate with a verification code.
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