Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND SENIOR SERVICES › Division 30 - Division of Regulation and Licensure › Chapter 84 - Training Program for Nursing Assistants › Section 19 CSR 30-84.010 - Nursing Assistant Training Program

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment updates and adds requirements
				  for the basic course curricula content and adds requirements for update
				  training for instructors. Clarifies student requirements and who is eligible to
				  challenge the final examination. Clarifies requirements for employees of a
				  long-term care facility. Updates instructor/clinical supervisor/student ratios.
				  Adds requirements for a RN Instructor Trainer. Revises requirements to allow
				  for a department approved third party proctor to administer the final
				  examination test. Updates and adds requirements for training and certifying
				  agencies. Clarifies and adds requirements for instructors and clinical
				  supervisors. Updates definitions, removes redundancy, outdated language, and
				  makes grammatical changes.
(1) Definitions. For the purpose of this
				rule, the following definitions shall apply:
(A) Association-means the Missouri Health
				Care Association, the Missouri Association of Nursing Home Administrators,
				Leading Age Missouri, or Missouri Hospital Association;
(B) Basic course -means the seventy-five (75) hours of
				instructional training, the one hundred (100) hours of supervised on-the-job
				training, and the final examination of the nursing assistant training
				course;
(C) Certifying agency
				-means an long-term care (LTC) association, Career Center school, comprehensive
				high school, community college, or four- (4-) year institution of higher
				learning approved by the department;
(D) Challenge the final examination -means taking the
				final examination of the basic course without taking the entire basic
				course;
(E) Department-means the
				Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services;
(F) Hospital-means any licensed hospital as
				defined in section
				197.020,
				RSMo;
(G) Missouri Veterans'
				Home-means any facilities established and maintained as a Missouri Veterans'
				Home as defined in section
				42.002, RSMo;
(H) Nursing Assistant Clinical
				Supervisor Workshop-means the training course approved by the department and
				conducted by a certifying agency to prepare clinical supervisors to learn the
				methodology of teaching the supervised on-the-job training component of the
				nursing assistant training program;
(I) Nursing Assistant Instructor
				Workshop-means a training course approved by the department and conducted by a
				certifying agency to prepare instructors to learn the methodology of teaching
				the nursing assistant training program;
(J) Program-means the nursing assistant
				training program as required by section
				198.082,
				RSMo;
(K) Registered Nurse
				Instructor Trainer-means a registered nurse (RN) approved by a certifying
				agency to teach the Nursing Assistant Instructor Workshop and the Nursing
				Assistant Clinical Supervisor Workshop to prepare instructors and clinical
				supervisors to teach the nursing assistant training program; and
(L) Training agency-means an organization
				approved by the department which sponsors the approved nursing assistant
				training program.