Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES › Division 73 - Missouri Board of Nursing Home Administrators › Chapter 2 - General Rules › Section 19 CSR 73-2.010 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This rule clearly defines terms as used in
				  Chapter 344, RSMo and in these rules.
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: The secretary of state has
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				  incorporated by reference as a portion of this rule would be unduly cumbersome
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				  of the rule is printed here.
(1) Administrator shall mean a person that is
				currently licensed by the board to administer, manage, or supervise a long-term
				care facility, including individuals who have ownership of a facility and/or
				individuals who share administrative duties and functions with
				others.
(2) Clock hour shall mean
				sixty (60) minutes of formal instruction by a board-approved
				presenter.
(3) Continuing education
				means post-licensure education to maintain professional competency to practice
				administration of long-term care facilities, as defined in section
				344.010,
				RSMo.
(4) Health care
				administration shall mean the completion of a course of instruction designed to
				teach the elements of health care facility administration and
				management.
(5) Examination shall
				mean a written examination, an oral examination, or a computer-based
				examination, in conformance with the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990,
				42 U.S.C. Chapter 126, which is incorporated by reference in this rule as
				published by and available at the U.S. Government Printing Office,
				Superintendent of Documents, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954, or at
www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/
. This
				rule does not include any later amendments or additions.
(6) Experience in health-care administration
				shall mean having management responsibility, which shall include the on-site
				supervision of at least three (3) staff persons in a licensed long-term care or
				acute-care facility or a licensed mental health facility, or a department of
				one of these facilities.
(7) Health
				care facility shall mean a licensed long-term care facility, licensed
				acute-care facility, or licensed inpatient mental health facility.
(8) Health care or aging-related experience
				shall mean full-time equivalency experience in a licensed home health agency,
				licensed hospice agency, licensed acute-care or long-term care facility,
				licensed adult day care program, or licensed mental health facility.
(9) Nursing Home Administrator shall mean an
				administrator, as defined in section (1), that administers, manages, or
				supervises a long-term care facility, as defined in section
				344.010,
				RSMo.
(10) Resident shall mean a
				person residing in a long-term care facility, as defined in section
				344.010,
				RSMo.
(11) Residential Care and
				Assisted Living Administrator shall mean an administrator, as defined in
				section (1), that administers, manages, or supervises an assisted living
				facility or residential care facility, as defined in Chapter 198, RSMo. This
				includes residential care facilities that were licensed as a residential care
				facility II on or before August 27, 2006, and that continue to meet the
				licensure standards for a residential care facility II in effect on August 27,
				2006.
(12) Training agency shall
				mean-
(A) An accredited educational
				institution; or
(B) A statewide or
				national membership agency, association, professional society, or organization
				in the fields of health care or health care management approved by the board to
				provide courses of instruction and training.