Pennsylvania Code › Title 49 - PROFESSIONAL AND VOCATIONAL STANDARDS › Part I - DEPARTMENT OF STATE › Subpart A - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL AFFAIRS › Chapter 39 - STATE BOARD OF EXAMINERS OF NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS › GENERAL › Section 39.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this chapter,
						have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
						otherwise:
AIT-Administrator-in-training
-An
						individual registered with the Board under §
											39.101 (relating to AIT) to serve
						a period of practical training and experience under the supervision of a
						licensed nursing home administrator.
AIT program
-A program established by the
						Board as a means for an applicant for licensure as a nursing home administrator
						to obtain practical training and experience under the supervision of a licensed
						nursing home administrator.
Act
-The Nursing Home Administrators
						License Act (63 P. S. §§
												1101-1114.2).
Board
-The State Board of Examiners of
						Nursing Home Administrators, a departmental administrative board in the
						Department of State.
Clock hour
-A unit of education
						consisting of 60 minutes of instruction. Programs longer than 30 minutes will
						be credited in 15-minute increments.
Continuing education record
-A document
						issued by the provider to the participant which contains the title of the
						program, the hours of education and the dates attended or completed.
Examiner
-A member of the Board.
Full-time
-A minimum of 4 days per week
						comprising a minimum of 35 hours.
Governing authority
-The board of
						directors for a not-for-profit nursing home, the county commissioners for a
						county public nursing home, the licensee for an operated-for-profit nursing
						home and the Office of Medical Services and Facilities of the Department of
						Public Welfare for a Commonwealth restoration center.
Individual study
-A continuing education
						course which does not have an instructor or other interactive learning
						methodologies and which requires a passing grade on a written examination or
						workbook.
License
-Certification of an applicant
						who has met the requirements of the act and of this chapter that entitle the
						applicant to serve, act, practice and otherwise hold himself out as a licensed
						nursing home administrator.
NAB
-The National Association of Boards
						of Examiners of Long-Term Care Administrators.
Nursing home
-An institution or facility
						in which nursing care and related medical or other health services are provided
						for a period exceeding 24 hours, for two or more individuals, who are not
						relatives of the administrator, who are not acutely ill and not in need of
						hospitalization, but who, because of age, illness, disease, injury,
						convalescence or physical or medical infirmity, need care.
Nursing home administrator
-An individual
						licensed under the act who is charged with the general administration of a
						nursing home whether or not the individual has an ownership interest in the
						home and whether or not the individual's functions and duties are shared with
						one or more other individuals.
Practice of nursing home
						administration
-The planning, organizing, directing and control of the
						operation of a nursing home.
Related health facility
-An intermediate
						care facility for the mentally retarded (ICF/MR) licensed by the Department of
						Public Welfare or a public or private institution licensed by the Department of
						Health or operated by the Federal government, for profit or not-for-profit,
						organized to provide professional services for the diagnosis, treatment or care
						of illness, injury or disease, which is limited to skilled and intermediate
						care nursing homes, special and general hospitals or other institutions of a
						similar nature that provide professional nursing and other professional health
						services to patients admitted for at least a 24-hour period. The term includes
						an institution or facility licensed by the Department of Health in which health
						services are provided on a regular basis to resident individuals who do not
						require the degree of care and treatment that a hospital or skilled nursing
						facility, as defined in section 802a of the Health Care Facilities Act
						(35
						P. S. §
												448.802a), is designed to
						provide but who, because of the individuals' mental or physical condition,
						require health services above the level of room and board.
Supervision
-The act of overseeing or
						directing a license applicant during the period of qualifying work
						experience.
Supervisor
-An individual who is present
						in a nursing home or related health facility on a full-time basis and who is
						charged with the responsibility of overseeing a specific department in a
						nursing home or related health facility; that is, nursing, housekeeping,
						dietary, laundry, pharmaceutical services, social service, business office,
						recreation, medical records, admitting, physical therapy, occupational therapy
						or medical and dental services.
Supervisory experience
-Knowledge gained
						from having acted as a supervisor in the administration of a nursing home,
						1,000 of which service shall have been under the supervision of a full-time
						licensed nursing home administrator. See §
											39.5(c) (relating
						to for admission to licensing examination; examination procedures).
Temporary permit
-A permit issued by the
						Board which authorizes an individual not licensed by the Board to serve as a
						nursing home administrator only in the particular facility indicated on the
						permit application for up to 1 year in the event of unusual circumstances
						affecting the administration of a nursing home, such as the death, disability,
						resignation or dismissal of the licensed administrator or other emergency as
						determined by the Board.
The provisions of this §
													39.1 amended under sections
						  4(a)(9) and (c), 9(b) and (e) and 14 of the Nursing Home Administrators License
						  Act (63 P.S. §§
														1104(a)(9) and
						  (c),
						  1109(b) and (e) and
						  1114).