On May 27, 2020, Governor Ned Lamont issued an emergency order creating a temporary nurse
aide position to permit trained, but unlicensed, providers to
perform limited, but necessary, healthcare services to help meet
the healthcare demands of the COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, the
purpose of the creation of this position is to provide
nursing-related services at nursing homes, which have been impacted
significantly by the pandemic.
The order modifies section 20-102aa of the Connecticut General
Statutes to include a definition of “temporary nurse
aide,” which is defined as follows: “an individual
providing nursing or nursing-related services to residents in a
chronic and convalescent nursing home or rest home with nursing
supervision, having eight hours of on-line training without
enhanced infection control skills and ineligible to work with
COVID-19 positive patients, in accordance with and under the
direction of a licensed nurse, but does not include an
