Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health › Chapter 679 - LONG-TERM CARE ADMINISTRATORS › Subchapter 9 - Continuing Education › Section 310:679-9-2 - Criteria for continuing education programs

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
(a) In order for the Board to approve a
				program for continuing education hours, an application shall be completed by
				the sponsor and reviewed and approved by the Board.
(b) Sponsors shall submit their application
				to the Board at least 30 days in advance of the program, provided however,
				should the Board fail to meet through lack of a quorum or other circumstance,
				the application will be reviewed at the next meeting of the Board and if
				approved, hours will be awarded retroactively.
(c) The application shall contain
				documentation that certifies the following criteria are being met:
(1) The program shall relate to Long Term
				Care Administration and be designed to promote continued knowledge, skills and
				attitudes consistent with current standards in long term care administration.
(2) The program shall be designed
				to assist administrators to improve their professional competencies.
(3) The program shall be open and available
				to all long term care administrators in Oklahoma.
(4) The facility where the program will be
				conducted shall provide adequate space to accommodate potential attendees and
				have the ability to supply the needed equipment.
(5) The faculty/instructors must have
				experience in long term care supervision and administration, or have expertise
				in teaching and instructional methods suitable to the subject presented, or
				have suitable academic qualifications and experience for the subject
				presented.
(6) The learning
				objectives in the program must be reasonable and clearly stated in behavioral
				terms which define the expected outcomes for participants.
(7) The learning objectives must be
				consistent with the program content and the mechanism by which learning
				objectives are shared with participants must be identified.
(8) The teaching methods in the program must
				be clearly stated, must be appropriate to the subject matter, and must allow
				suitable time.
(9) Instructional
				aids and resource materials that will be utilized in the program must be
				described.
(10) Sponsors should be
				qualified in the subject matter presented. The Board, in its sole discretion,
				may approve programs from an accredited educational institution, a professional
				association and/or trade association, a private educational group, or a state
				agency, or from another source if the program content is deemed to be of
				sufficient value to Oklahoma long term care administrators.
(11) The registration fee for a program must
				be published clearly on promotional material.
(12) Registration fees may be reviewed by the
				Board.
(13) The sponsor must allow
				the Board to evaluate the program.
(14) The sponsor must provide an evaluation
				form, approved by the Board, for each program participant's
				responses.
(15) Within 15 days
				after the conclusion of the program, the sponsor of Board approved programs
				(not NAB/NCERS approved programs) must provide to the Board a list of
				participants and a summary of the evaluations for each program. NAB/NCERS
				approved sponsors will use the NAB CE Registry to report attendees for those
				programs.
(16) The application
				presented to the Board must state the method to be used in certifying
				attendance or on-line completion.
(17) To receive full credit, attendees must
				attend the full program and/or log-in for on-line attendance for the full
				program. See also
				490:1-9-1(j).
(18) Partial credit of a minimum of two clock
				hours may be earned in a divisible program.
(19) Instructional hours must be based upon
				clock hours (60 minutes= 1 clock hour).
(20) The agenda must show registration, meal
				times (not included in credit hours), and a breakdown of the daily educational
				activities.
(21) The maximum number
				of hours that can be approved or earned shall be seven clock hours per
				day.
(22) The target group for
				programs shall be long term care administrators and other disciplines related
				to long term care.
(23) Licensed
				administrators who are "presenters" of approved CE programs may receive credit
				one time annually for the clock hour value of the class(es) they present. If
				the material is presented multiple times, credit is only awarded once per
				licensure year for the same educational material.
(24) Licensed administrators who present in
				Administrators University (AU) or other Board approved entry level training
				such as RC, RCAL or Adult Day Care initial licensure training, will receive CE
				credit one time annually for the clock hour value of the material they
				present.