Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 2701 - Organization and Structure › Chapter 1 - Organization and Structure › Rule 30-2701-1.2 - General Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
A. Whenever used in
				these Rules and Regulations, unless expressly otherwise stated, or unless the
				context or subject matter requires a different meaning, the following terms
				shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:
(1) "Nursing Home Administrator" or
				"administrator" means any individual who is charged with the general
				administration of a nursing home, whether or not such an individual has an
				ownership interest in such home and whether or not the functions and duties are
				shared with one or more other individuals.
(2) "General administration of a nursing
				home" shall mean the duties of administrative performance and the making of
				day-to-day decisions involved in the planning, organizing, directing, and/or
				controlling of a nursing home. In the performance of day-to-day operations, the
				administrator shall be full-time (i.e., thirty-two hours per week or more) and
				spend an adequate and reasonable amount of time on the premises and a major
				portion of that time shall be during the normal work week when the key
				personnel are on duty (i.e., Monday - Friday).
(3) "Nursing home" means a place, either
				governmental or private, either profit or nonprofit, which provides group
				living arrangements for four (4) or more persons who are unrelated to the
				operator and who are being provided food, shelter and personal care, and which
				employs at least one (1) registered nurse or licensed practical nurse. The term
				"nursing home" does not include hospitals, clinics, and other institutions
				devoted primarily to providing medical service.
(4) "Act" means the Nursing Home
				Administration Act of 1970, being sections
				73-17-1
				through
				73-17-15
				of the Mississippi Code of 1972, Annotated, and amendments thereto.
(5) "Board" means the Mississippi State Board
				of Nursing Home Administrators.
(6)
				"Person" means an individual and does not include the terms firm, corporation,
				association, partnership, institution, public body, joint stock association or
				any other group of individuals.
(7)
				"Administrator-in-Training" is an individual, registered with the Board, who is
				pursuing the prescribed program required by the Board under these Rules and
				Regulations. (See Part 2703, Chapter 1, Rule 1.3 )
(8) "Preceptor" means a full-time practicing
				Nursing Home Administrator certified to serve as such, in the prescribed
				program required by the Board under these Rules and Regulations. (See Part
				2703, Chapter 1, Rule 1.3 )
(9)
				"NAB" means the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care
				Administrators.
(10) "NAB
				Examination" is one of the required examinations for license as a nursing home
				administrator. The Mississippi State Board of Nursing Home Administrators
				contracts with NAB to develop the exam, as well as to set forth procedures for
				administration and the scoring of the exam. The "NAB Examination" is
				administered by the computer based method.
(11) "Endorsement" means reciprocity as
				described in Mississippi Code Ann. 73-17-11.