Annual Required 
Training / Acknowledgements

All NKY Health employees and long term supplemental staff must to complete ALL district-wide training / acknowledgements between December 1 and the end of February. 

Supervisors are responsible for:

• Ensuring that their staff complete the training and acknowledgements

• Keeping records of completion for supplemental staff

• Ensuring records of completion for part-time NKY Health employees are scanned as .PDFs to Human Resources by March 1  

NKY Health employees who fail to complete the training / acknowledgements may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including dismissal from employment.

Supplemental staff who fail to complete the training / acknowledgements may be suspended from working at NKY Health until the training / acknowledgements are completed.

• Supplemental Staff are those who are working at NKY Health but paid by a different entity, students, and unpaid volunteers. 

  • Long-Term are those who will be with NKY Health on an ongoing basis.  This does not include those who are visiting for six months or less. 

• NKY Health Employees are those who complete a timecard in NKY Health's timekeeping system and receive pay direct deposited from NKY Health. 

  • Full-Time Employees are those who are paid for 40 hours/pay period

  • Part-Time Employees are those who are paid for less than 40 hours/week (this includes contract employees)

The purpose of this policy is to codify a longstanding practice at NKY Health which:

• Helps to ensure the safety and well-being of all staff by providing refreshers and updates of workplace safety and behavior-related policies and practices

• Meets legal and best-practice requirements of all employers

• Satisfies program requirements specific to local health departments in Kentucky and/or funding sources

The training and acknowledgements are made available annually during the months when NKY Health is most likely to experience unforeseen closures due to inclement weather.  This allows staff who have appropriate technology and advance permission from their NKY Health supervisor to work from home.

When the deadline approaches and NKY Health has not closed, supervisors may work with staff to schedule administrative time to complete the training/acknowledgements.

NOPE!  But it has been tested and re-tested multiple times.  It appears to be just fine.

However, as with anything new, we may need to be patient as all the "unforeseen events" come to light and are addressed.  Please don't wait until the last minute in case you experience technical difficulties.

You should never share your login or passwords with anyone else.

However, you can log in to MyPURPOSE and launch a module for others to view.  Feel free to project it to a larger monitor to share in a group setting or to invite someone to sit at your desk and complete it .

Remember that once it's completed it becomes part of YOUR transcript. (But you should be able to re-launch it multiple times.)

With your supervisor's advance permission you can work on this remotely provided you have the technology.  (We're sorry but NKY Health cannot provide support for your personal technology devices.)

Check with your credentialing agency accepts it.  If they do, then you can use it for CEU's.  MyPURPOSE even allows you to print certificates of completion for some materials.

• NKY Health employees must enter the time spent on this on their timecards so they can be paid.

• Supplemental Staff through Adecco must also enter the time spent on their Adecco timecards so they can be paid.

• Supplemental Staff through other agencies should check with their agency personnel about how to code the time and whether they will be paid.

• Volunteers are unpaid.

Supplemental Staff and Part-Time NKY Health Employees must complete both the orientation checklist and the annual training / acknowledgements checklist.  You do not necessarily have to view each item twice, but you do have to initial and date both checklists.  The dates for the annual training / acknowledgements must be between December 1 and February 28.  

Your supervisor will need to make arrangements for you to view this video.

• Anyone can view this video anytime on the laptops in the Training Room next to the Human Resources office at the District Office.  The room accommodates four people at once during normal times, but two if social distancing.

• Clinic Managers at BCHC, CCHC, GCHC, and KCHC have a copy of the DVD.

• Other supervisors may borrow the DVD from a Clinic Manager.

1. Log in to MyPURPOSE.

2. Go to your home screen (Learner > Learner Home).

3. Open the "NKY Health Annual Compliance Training and Update" curriculum (probably at the lower left of your screen.)

4. Select a topic.

5. Select "View Details."

6. Launch each module when you're ready (Launch > Launch).

That depends on how thorough you are.  We encourage you to pay attention to the content but it is possible to complete all the training/acknowledgements in as little as four (4) hours if you are supplemental staff and six (6) hours if you are an NKY Health employee.

Refer to the MyPURPOSE page of this site. 

If you need additional assistance, talk to your supervisor who will reach out to Human Resources if they cannot help you.

See the TRAIN page of this site.  If you need additional assistance, talk to your supervisor who will reach out to Human Resources if they cannot help you.

Your supervisor may have additional training you can complete remotely.  Otherwise, NKY Health's Unforeseen Closures policy applies.

Please plan ahead because you still have to finish it between the timeframe specified.

Access to MyPURPOSE is via the Kentucky Human Resources Information System (KHRIS).  Currently, quasi agencies such as NKY Health are only permitted to set up employees who are eligible for group health insurance in KHRIS.  

"Frankfort" is working to change this but it requires an extensive technology update in order to prevent part-time employees from being automatically assigned an insurance plan and charged for the monthly premium.  The update is scheduled to be completed "any day now" but was first delayed by a new governor taking office, then by the onset of COVID, and now by staffing issues.

Eventually part-time NKY Health employees should have access to MyPURPOSE but supplemental staff will likely never have access. 

Annually

• Update checklists.

6/8/2023

• Added Revision Log.

11/22/2023

• Added information about CEU's.