Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 33 - BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING CARE ADMINISTRATORS AND ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY MANAGERS › Article 1 - GENERAL › Section R4-33-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
The definitions in A.R.S. §
									36-446 apply to this Chapter.
				  Additionally, in this Chapter, unless otherwise specified:
"Accredited" means approved by the North Central Association
				  of Colleges and Secondary Schools, New England Association of Schools and
				  Colleges, Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools,
				  Northwest Association of Schools and Colleges, Southern Association of Colleges
				  and Schools, or Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
"ACHCA" means the American College of Health Care
				  Administrators.
"Administrator" has the meaning prescribed at A.R.S. §
									36-446 and means an individual
				  licensed under this Chapter.
"Administrator in training" or "AIT" means an individual who
				  is taking an AIT program to be licensed as an administrator for a nursing care
				  institution.
"AIT program" means a training that the Board approves after
				  determining that the training meets the standards at
				  R4-33-302.
"Applicant" means an individual who applies to the Board to
				  be licensed as an administrator of a nursing care institution, to be certified
				  as a manager of an assisted living facility, or for approval of a continuing
				  education.
"Application package" means the forms, documents, and fees
				  that the Board requires an applicant to submit or have submitted on the
				  applicant's behalf.
"Arizona examination" means a measure of an applicant's
				  knowledge of Arizona statutes and rules regarding nursing care institution
				  administration or assisted living facility management.
"Biennial period" means:
For an administrator, the period until 30 days after the
				  licensee's birthday in an even-numbered year; and
For a manager, the period until 30 days after the
				  certificate holder's birthday in an odd-numbered year.
"Contact hour" means an hour during which an administrator or
				  manager is physically present at a continuing education or a manager is
				  physically present at a required initial training.
"Continuing education" means a planned educational course or
				  program that the Board approves under
				  R4-33-502.
"Good standing" means an individual licensed by the state is
				  not subject to any disciplinary action or consent order, and not currently
				  under investigation for alleged unprofessional conduct.
"Health care institution" means every place, institution,
				  building or agency, whether organized for profit or not, that provides
				  facilities with medical services, nursing services, behavioral health services,
				  health screening services, other health-related services, supervisory care
				  services, personal care services or directed care services and includes home
				  health agencies as defined in A.R.S. §
									36-151, outdoor behavioral health
				  care programs and hospice services agencies. A.R.S. §
									36-401.
"Manager" means an assisted living facility manager, as
				  defined at A.R.S. §
									36-446, who is certified under
				  this Chapter.
"NAB" means the National Association of Long Term Care
				  Administrator Boards.
"Party" has the same meaning as prescribed in A.R.S. §
									41-1001.
"Preceptor" means a practicing nursing care institution
				  administrator who helps to develop a new professional in the field of long-term
				  care administration by tutoring the new professional.
"Qualified instructor" means a person who meets one or more
				  of the following criteria:
A registered nurse, licensed under A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter
				  15;
An instructor employed by an accredited college or
				  university, or health care institution to teach a health-care related course;
				  or
A person or entity that has sufficient education and training
				  to be qualified to teach a health-care related course.
"Work experience in a health-related field" means employment
				  in a health care institution or in the professional fields of medicine,
				  nursing, social work, gerontology, or other closely related field.