Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4751 - State Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators › Chapter 4751-1 - General Provisions › Section 4751-1-13 - Continuing education

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) As required in rule
			 4751-1-10 of the Administrative
			 Code, nursing home administrators shall complete a minimum of
			 
								forty
			 clock hours of approved continuing education 
								biennially in the
			 
								twenty-seven- month period preceding renewal of the
			 registration of the nursing home administrator license.
(1) An unlimited number of hours of
			 continuing education may be completed from in
			 person courses which are NAB and BELTSS
			 approved
									.
(2) The board, in its sole discretion, shall
			 determine the number of hours of self-study instruction which shall qualify to
			 fulfill an administrator's 
									biennial requirement for continuing education. As
			 used in this paragraph, "self-study instruction" means any course of
			 instruction provided through online, self-study, live or recorded webinars, or
			 other learning that is not provided in a classroom setting. Self-study courses
			 are identified by a BELTSS approval number with an "SS" in the middle.
			 There is no limit on the amount of self-study/distance
			 learning/webinar hours that may be submitted each renewal period.
(3) The board will only accept twelve
			 continuing education credits earned by a licensed nursing home administrator in
			 one calendar day in alignment with NAB standards.
(4) Administrators shall be required to take
			 one continuing education course dealing with ethics/professional standards of
			 practice each renewal period.
(5)
			 In the case of the COVID pandemic and board action declaring it necessary,
			  the continuing education requirement may be waived
			 entirely, by board action.
(6)
			 NAB-approved courses are identified with an "in" or a "dl." An "in" means the
			 continuing education occurred in an "in-person" or classroom setting. A "dl"
			 means the continuing education is a self-study, webinar, or "distance
			 learning."
(7) In the case of both
			 NAB and BELTSS approval for a course, the BELTSS approval is primary for
			 purposes of determining status (self-study, etc.) and the number of continuing
			 education credits accepted by the board.
(8) Teaching any course for approved
			 continuing education, the core of knowledge, or a college course may also be
			 used to meet the continuing education requirement. A college course must be
			 taught at an accredited college or university and must apply to the practice of
			 nursing home administration, as defined in rule
			 4751-1-02 of the Administrative
			 Code. A letter or brochure from the course provider, or a letter from a
			 university official, is required as poof of teaching the course.
(9) Continuing education hours may be granted
			 for successfully serving as a preceptor to an administrator-in-training. The
			 licensed nursing home administrator may earn six continuing education hours for
			 precepting upon the AIT's successful completion of the program and must serve
			 as the preceptor for the entire internship period to qualify.
(10) A preceptor who precepts an
			 administrator-in-training for half or more of the required number of program
			 hours shall be eligible to receive three hours of continuing education
			 credit.
(11) The preceptor may use
			 the continuing education credits for the current renewal
			  period only, following the
			 completion date of the administratorin-training's program. Only
			 
									twelve
			 precepting credits may be earned and used on each 
									biennial
			 renewal. Precepting credit hours are considered in-person hours.
(12) Credits shall be reported in the renewal
			 system with the administrator-intraining agreement and a statement from the
			 administrator serving as proof of successfully completing the precepting period
			 or a confirming letter from the university for direct college
			 students.