Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 433 - ADMINISTRATION OF MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION PROGRAMS › EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATION OF MENTAL HEALTH TECHNICIANS › Section 433.110 - Vocational and educational program requirements for new employees, permanent employees and promotions; allowance for partial attendance and lack of available courses

Current through June 11, 2024
1. For each mental
			 health-mental retardation technician who is initially employed by the Division
			 in that position on or after July 5, 1994, the director shall require the
			 technician to complete the vocational and educational program established
			 pursuant to
			 NRS
			 433.279.
2. If a mental health-mental retardation
			 technician attends only part of a course or program approved by the Division,
			 the Division may determine the number of hours of credit, if any, that the
			 technician may receive toward certification.
3. Except as otherwise provided in subsection
			 4, for each mental health-mental retardation technician who is initially
			 employed by the Division in that position on or after July 5, 1994, the
			 director shall, in determining whether to grant the technician the status of a
			 permanent employee, consider whether the technician has completed 5 hours of
			 credit.
4. The provisions of
			 subsection 3 do not apply if the technician is not able to complete the
			 required hours because of the failure of the Division or the Nevada System of
			 Higher Education to offer the courses necessary for the technician to complete
			 the required hours of credit.
5.
			 Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, for each mental health-mental
			 retardation technician who is initially employed by the Division in that
			 position on or after July 5, 1994, the director shall not consider the
			 technician as eligible for promotion unless the technician has successfully
			 completed at least 5 additional hours of credit at the appropriate level of the
			 vocational and educational program established pursuant to
			 NRS
			 433.279.
6. The provisions of subsection 5 do not
			 apply if the technician is not able to complete the additional hours of credit
			 because of the failure of the Division or the Nevada System of Higher Education
			 to offer the courses necessary for the technician to complete the additional
			 hours of credit.
7. If a mental
			 health-mental retardation technician has completed the 5 additional hours of
			 credit necessary for promotion and is subsequently demoted, the director shall
			 determine whether it is necessary for the technician to take additional courses
			 before he or she may be considered for any future promotion. If the director
			 determines that the technician must take additional courses, the director shall
			 notify the technician in the same document which notifies the technician of the
			 demotion.
8. For the purposes of
			 this section, "5 hours of credit" means 75 hours of participation in one or
			 more courses or programs approved by the Division for the vocational and
			 educational program pursuant to NAC 433.070.
Added to NAC by Men.
				Hygiene & Men. Retardation Div., eff. 7-5-94
NRS
				  433.279