Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 19 - BOARD OF NURSING › Article 8 - CERTIFIED AND LICENSED NURSING ASSISTANTS AND CERTIFIED MEDICATION ASSISTANTS › Section R4-19-801 - Common Standards for Nursing Assistant (NA) and Certified Medication Assistant (CMA) Training Programs

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A.
				Program Administrative Responsibilities
1.
				Any person or entity offering a training program under this Article shall,
				before accepting tuition from prospective students, and at all times
				thereafter, provide program personnel including a coordinator and instructors,
				as applicable, who meet the requirements of this Article.
2. If at any time, a person or entity
				offering a training program cannot provide a qualified instructor for its
				students, it shall immediately cease instruction and, if the training program
				cannot provide a qualified instructor within 5 business days, the training
				program shall offer all enrolled students a refund of all tuition and fees the
				students have paid to the program.
3. A training program shall obtain and
				maintain Board approval or re-approval as specified in this Article and A.R.S
				§
										32-1650.01(B)
				 before advertising the program, accepting
				any tuition, fees, or other funds from prospective students, or enrolling
				students.
4. A training program
				that uses external clinical facilities shall execute a written agreement with
				each external clinical facility.
5.
				A training program that requires students to pay tuition for the program shall:
a. Make all program costs readily accessible
				on the school's website with effective dates,
b. Publically post any increases in costs on
				the school's website 30 days in advance of the increase;
c. Include in the cost calculation and public
				posting, all fees directly paid to the program including but not limited to
				tuition, lab fee, clinical fee, enrollment fee, insurance, books, uniform,
				health screening, credit card fee and state competency exam fee; and
d. Provide a description of all program costs
				to the student that are not directly paid to the program.
6. Before collecting any tuition or fees from
				a student, a training program shall notify each prospective student of Board
				requirements for certification and licensure including:
a. Legal presence in the United States;
				and
b. For licensure, criminal
				background check requirements, and ineligibility under A.R.S. §
											32-1606(B)(15) and
				(16).
7. Within the first 14 days of the program
				and before 50% of program instruction occurs, a training program shall transmit
				to the Board-approved test vendor, accurate and complete information regarding
				each enrolled student for the purposes of tracking program enrollment,
				attrition and completion. Upon receipt of accurate completion information, the
				vendor shall issue a certificate of completion to the program for each
				successful graduate.
8. A training
				program shall provide the Board, or its designee, access to all training
				program records, students and staff at any time, including during an announced
				or unannounced visit. A program's refusal to provide such access is grounds for
				withdrawal of Board approval.
9. A
				training program shall provide each student with an opportunity to anonymously
				and confidentially evaluate the course instructor, curriculum, classroom
				environment, clinical instructor, clinical setting, textbook and resources of
				the program;
10. A training program
				shall provide and implement a plan to evaluate the program that includes the
				frequency of evaluation, the person responsible, the evaluative criteria, the
				results of the evaluation and actions taken to improve the program. The program
				shall evaluate the following elements at a minimum every two years:
a. Student evaluations consistent with
				subsection (A)(9);
b. First-time
				pass rates on the written and manual skills certification exams for each
				admission cohort;
c. Student
				attrition rates for each admission cohort;
d. Resolution of student complaints and
				grievances in the past two years; and
e. Review and revision of program
				policies.
11. A training
				program shall submit written documentation and information to the Board
				regarding the following program changes within 30 days of instituting the
				change:
a. For a change or addition of an
				instructor or coordinator, the name, RN license number, and documentation that
				the coordinator or instructor meets the applicable requirements of
				R4-19-802(B) and
				(C) for NA programs and
				R4-19-803(B)
				for CMA programs;
b. For a change
				in classroom location, the previous and new location, and a description of the
				new classroom;
c. For a change in a
				clinical facility, the name and address of the new facility and a copy of the
				signed clinical contract;
d. For a
				change in the name or ownership of the training program, the former name or
				owners and the new name or owners; and
e. For a decrease in hours of the program, a
				written revised curriculum document that clearly highlights new content,
				strikes out deleted content and includes revised hours of instruction, as
				applicable.