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Requirements for
Licensure:
55-02-01-07. Requirements
for initial licensure. A person applying for initial licensure must
meet the following requirements:
1. The person is at least eighteen years of age and of good moral
character;
2. The person has a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or
university, or has an associate degree from an accredited college or
university and has practiced as a licensed nursing home administrator in
any jurisdiction for at least ve of the last six years.
3. The person has completed a board-approved administrator-in-training
program, practiced as a licensed nursing home administrator in any
jurisdiction for at least two years preceding the application, or is
certied by the American college of health care administrators as a
nursing
home administrator.
4. The person has passed or passes the required examination within one
year of making an application.
Upon meeting the education requirements and
passing the national examination, licensure may be granted. In order to
maintain competence in the field of nursing home administration, the board
requires nursing home administrators to attend 20 hours of approved classes,
seminars or conferences each year.
Types of Licenses:
Initial,
Endorsement, Emergency and
Inactive:
Initial: An
applicant for licensure as a nursing home administrator who has
successfully complied with the licensure requirements, and has passed the
national examination shall be issued a license certifying that the
applicant has met the requirements of the laws and rules entitling the
applicant to serve, act, practice, and otherwise hold oneself out as a
duly licensed nursing home administrator.
Endorsement: Upon
application, the board may issue a license through endorsement to any
person who: has received a passing grade on a national examination
recognized by NAB; pays an application fee; holds a valid license from the
transferring state that imposes requirements for obtaining a license which
are at least as stringent as the requirements imposed in North Dakota.
Emergency: The board may, upon
application, issue an emergency license to any person who: pays an
application fee of $100; meets the requirements of subsection 1 of section
55-02-01-07; meets any other requirements that the board finds necessary;
and will be supervised by a preceptor at the expense of the nursing home.
Supervision requires communication between the preceptor and the licensee
at least twice in each week and at least one visit in each month by the
preceptor to the nursing home where the licensee is employed. The
preceptor shall make monthly written reports to the board.
Inactive:
A
nursing home administrator whose license has not been revoked or suspended
may request inactive license status for no more than five consecutive
years. While in inactive license status, the administrator must submit a
renewal form and a license fee annually, but the continuing education
requirement as set forth in section 55-02-01-12 need not be met. A license
may not be issued during the inactive license status period.
A nursing home administrator must obtain twenty hours of continuing
education hours prior to reactivating his or her license.
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