Draco Staff Development brings your team’s compliance, training, and
scheduling into one secure, elegant platform — designed to be genuinely
easy for every member of your staff to use.
A CNA Renewal, Filed With the State, in Five Clicks
Compliance work is mostly paperwork about work you have already done. Draco does that part.
Watch a certified nurse assistant's two-year renewal go from coming-due to filed with CDPH —
the packet builds itself from records you already keep, and the platform files it for you.
01Start the renewalPress Start Renewal on their row, then Create Renewal.2 clicks
02Draco reads the recordThe cycle, the 48 hours inside it, and every CDPH requirement.Automatic
03The 283A builds and signs itselfThe State's CEU log, the attendance detail, the certificates.Automatic
04File with CDPHSubmitted through the OASYS portal, then tracked to the answer.3 clicks
Simulated data — every name, date and number in the film is invented for the demonstration.
No certified nurse assistant's records appear in it.
The platform
Everything Your Community Needs, Organized Logically
Each function has a clear home, so anyone on your team can find what they need at a glance.
Compliance Matrix
One living grid of every employee against every mandated requirement — colour-coded, filterable, and always survey-ready.
Each cell carries the regulation behind it, not just a date
Scored separately for skilled nursing and assisted living
Expiring items surface before they lapse, not after
Staff Directory
The whole team in one searchable record: titles, departments, credentials, documents, and health screening.
Licences verified against the issuing State board
Every certificate and form stored on the employee
Role-tiered access to sensitive identity fields
Training Calendar
Plan, assign, and evidence in-services and continuing education across the year.
Attendance posts straight into the Compliance Matrix
Monthly calendar emailed to staff automatically
CE hours tracked per licence cycle, not per year
Scheduling
Build and publish staff schedules that fit the realities of a 24/7 care community.
Daily assignment sheets that stand up as survey evidence
Nursing-hours-per-patient-day figures from the same data
Printable in the formats your facility already posts
Resources & AFL Library
The forms, letters, and regulatory library your team reaches for, kept current and searchable.
All-Facility Letters indexed and full-text searchable
State forms fillable on screen and printable to the original
Facility records and policies filed against survey readiness
Reports
Day-to-day records turned into the documents leadership and surveyors actually ask for.
Branded with your facility’s own letterhead
Exportable to PDF, formatted as documents not screenshots
Built from live records — never a stale spreadsheet
Coverage
26 Requirements, Each With the Regulation Behind It
Draco does not ask you to invent a compliance checklist. It ships with the one California
skilled nursing and residential care facilities are actually held to — every item carrying
its own citation, and scored separately for each licence because the two are not the same rulebook.
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Training & In-service
Abuse/neglect/exploitation prevention
Resident's rights & facility responsibilities
Dementia management training
+8 more
3
Health Screening
Annual physical examination
TB test / assessment
Respirator fit test
3
Background & Clearances
Criminal record clearance
Exclusion screening (OIG LEIE)
Nurse-aide registry / abuse-finding check
3
Evaluations
90-day (probationary) evaluation
Annual performance evaluation
Skills / competency evaluation
2
Immunizations
Seasonal influenza vaccination (or declination)
Hepatitis B vaccination / declination on file
2
Life Support (CPR/BLS)
BLS / CPR certification
HeartSaver + First Aid (RCC PCG)
1
Licensure & Certification
Professional license / certification current
1
Onboarding
New-employee orientation
Citations are drawn from the bodies that actually inspect you:
CDPHCalifornia Department of Public Health — Title 22, Division 5
CMSCenters for Medicare & Medicaid Services — 42 CFR Part 483
CDSSCommunity Care Licensing — Title 22, Division 6 (RCFE)
Purpose-built
Designed Around How Care Communities Actually Work
Skilled nursing and assisted living teams are busy, hands-on, and not
always comfortable with new software. Draco is built to feel obvious —
so the platform is a genuine help, never another chore.
A tailored experience for desktop, tablet, and phone — not a shrunken desktop screen.
Plain-language labels and a logical, sectioned menu anyone can navigate.
A searchable Help Center with step-by-step instructions when you need them.
Ready for California SNF and ALF requirements from day one.
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California Requirements, Out of the Box
Every mandated item a California skilled nursing or residential care community is held to,
each carrying its own citation and scored against the right licence — plus the letters,
forms, and reports those facilities rely on.
Configured for you
Fitted to Your Facility — Not a Template You Have to Live With
No two communities run the same way, and Draco is not delivered as a fixed product you must
adapt to. Every deployment is professionally configured to the individual needs of the facility
it serves, and our support staff continue to shape it for as long as you use it.
Configured, Not Just Installed
Before your team ever signs in, Draco is set up around your requirement set, your job titles
and departments, your licence types, and your letterhead — so the first screen your staff open
already reflects the way your community actually operates.
Every Report and Form Is Yours to Shape
Reports, forms, letters, evaluation templates, matrix requirements, reminder schedules — all of
it is customizable by our dedicated support staff. If your facility needs a document worded a
particular way, a field added, or a wholly new report built, you ask and we build it. There is
no change request queue and no per-change fee.
It Works With the Training You Already Buy
Draco integrates directly with online learning platforms, so course completions become
compliance evidence without anyone re-keying them. Records arrive on their own, post themselves
against the right requirement, and carry their certificates into the packets you file.
Integrations
Your Learning Platform, Connected
Completions flow in on their own. Nothing is typed twice, and the certificate that reaches the
State is the authentic one your provider issued — not a look-alike regenerated after the fact.
Relias Online LearningCompletions import nightly and post themselves into the Compliance Matrix against the
requirement they satisfy. Authentic Relias certificate exports are carried straight into
CDPH renewal packets.
Draco Learning LMSOur own learning platform, built for the same California SNF and RCFE curriculum — so
coursework and compliance evidence live in one continuous record.
And more, on requestUsing a different provider? Our support staff will build the import for it. Bringing your
training data in is part of setup, not an add-on.
Security & privacy
Your People’s Information, Protected
Employee records include sensitive, confidential information. Draco
treats security as a first-class requirement at every layer of the
platform.
Strict multi-tenant isolation — one company can never see another’s data.
Encrypted connections and hardened, monitored sessions.
Every public form protected by invisible reCAPTCHA.
Comprehensive error and activity logging behind the scenes.
Isolated by Design
Each tenant company’s operational data lives in its own database, so
separation isn’t a setting to configure — it’s built into the
architecture.
Free to download
Two Reference Manuals, Free to Anyone
California's rules for staff development and infection prevention, gathered and explained in
plain English with the citation attached to every requirement. No sign-up, no email required —
they are yours whether or not you ever use Draco.
The DSD Regulatory Reference Manual
Every regulation that touches staff development in California skilled nursing facilities and
residential care facilities for the elderly — gathered, verified, and explained in plain
English, with the exact citation attached to every requirement. Written for Directors of
Staff Development, administrators, and compliance leads.
DSD qualifications, minimum hours and curriculum
CNA and nurse training and in-service requirements
Skilled nursing and residential care operating standards
Survey and F-tag reference (CMS Appendix PP)
Working tools: calendar, checklists and crosswalk
282 pagesPDF · 3.1 MBSecond Edition, 2026Citations verified to official sources
An educational reference, not legal advice — always check the current text of a regulation
before you rely on a citation.
Infection Prevention & Control in Long-Term Care
The science of infection prevention and the California rules that govern it, side by side —
microbiology and surveillance alongside the federal, state and Cal/OSHA requirements, with
every clinical recommendation and regulatory requirement tied to its official source. Written
for Infection Preventionists, directors of nursing, and the staff developers and
administrators behind them.
The Infection Preventionist role, qualifications and the full-time requirement
The written prevention programme and annual risk assessment
Surveillance, national reporting and antibiotic stewardship
Hand hygiene, precautions, protective equipment and the pathogens
Outbreaks, reporting and the F880 survey (CMS Appendix PP)
276 pagesPDF · 3.2 MBFirst Edition, 2026Citations verified to official sources
An educational and clinical reference, not legal or medical advice — always check current
regulation and clinical guidance before you rely on a citation.
About
Draco Staff Development
We help California’s skilled nursing and assisted living communities
keep their teams trained, compliant, and confident. Our goal is a
platform that feels welcoming and professional — one your staff are
glad to use, and that leadership can trust.
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