Wyoming Administrative Code › Agency 079 - Nursing Home Administrators › Sub-Agency 0001 - Nursing Home Administrators › Appendix A & B

Current through July 13, 2024
WS
									33-22-101 Through
				33-22-110
33-22-101. Definitions.
(a)
(i) The term "board" means the Wyoming state board of nursing
				home administrators hereinafter created;
(ii) The term "nursing home administrator" means a person who
				operates, manages, supervises, or is in charge of a nursing home.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 1; W.S. 1957, 33-291.1.
33-22-102. Board of nursing home
				administrators created; composition; appointment; removal; qualifications and
				terms of members.
(a) The Wyoming state board of nursing home administrators is
				created to consist of five (5) members appointed by the governor. The director
				of the department of health, or his designee, who is a member of a health
				profession concerned with the care of the chronically ill or aged resident,
				shall serve as an ex official member of the board but shall not vote. The
				governor may remove any member he appoints as provided in W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				9-1-202.
(b) One (1) appointee shall hold the degree of doctor of
				medicine and be licensed to practice medicine in Wyoming. One (1) appointee
				shall be a registered nurse duly licensed to practice professional nursing in
				Wyoming, who is not employed by a nursing home. One (1) appointee shall be a
				consumer representative selected from the general public. The remaining two (2)
				appointees shall each be an operator-administrator of a nursing home within
				Wyoming, and have two (2) years' experience as a nursing home operator -
				administrator within Wyoming.
(c) The terms of all appointed members shall be four (4) years.
				Any vacancy shall be filled by the governor for the unexpired term. No more
				than three (3) members of this board shall be from the same political party.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 2; W.S. 1957, RN33-291.2; Laws
				1973,
ch. 38, 1; 1987, ch. 45, 1; ch. 175, 1; 1991, ch. 221,
				2.
33-22-103. License; issuance;
				qualifications; waiver of additional qualifications.
The board shall have authority to issue licenses to qualified
				persons as nursing home administrators. No license shall be issued to a person
				as a nursing home administrator unless he shall have submitted evidence
				satisfactory to the board of his ability to supervise a nursing home. Provided,
				that persons meeting the qualifications, who have heretofore been acknowledged
				by the state department of public health as administrators of nursing homes
				pursuant to W.S. W.S.
				W.S.
				35-2-101 through
				35-2-112, and who hold such
				acknowledgment on the effective date of this act, but who cannot meet any
				additional qualifications established by the board, may, subject to such
				conditions and requirements as may be prescribed by the board, be granted a
				waiver by the board of such qualifications for a period of two (2) years after
				the effective date of this act.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 3; W.S. 1957, 33-291.3.
33-22-104. License; annual fee;
				expiration.
Each person licensed as a nursing home administrator shall be
				required to pay an annual license fee in an amount to be fixed by the board,
				which fee shall not exceed fifty dollars ($50.00). Each such license shall
				expire on the 31st day of December following issuance, and shall be renewable
				for a calendar year, upon payment of the annual license fee.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 4; W.S. 1957, 33-291.4.
33-22-105. Disposition of fees;
				board of nursing home administrators' account.
All fees shall be received and collected as provided by law.
				The state treasurer shall keep the same in an account within the earmarked
				revenue fund, which may be used and expended by the board to pay the
				compensation and travel expenses of members and employees of the board, and
				other expenses necessary for the board to administer and carry out the
				provisions of this act.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 5; W.S. 1957, 33-291.5;Laws 1973,
				ch. 245, 3.
33-22-106. Officers of board;
				rules and regulations; compensation of board; necessary personnel.
The board shall elect from its membership a chairman,
				vice-chairman and secretary-treasurer, and shall adopt rules and regulations to
				govern its proceedings. This board will serve without compensation except for
				travel and per diem at the usual rate of other state officials. The board may
				employ and fix the compensation and duties of necessary personnel to assist it
				in the performance of its duties.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 6; W.S. 1957, 33-291.6.
33-22-107. Determining
				qualifications of administrator; examinations; holder of license deemed
				qualified.
The board shall have sole and exclusive authority to determine
				the qualifications, skill and fitness of any person to serve as an
				administrator of a nursing home or similar institution. The board may give
				examinations and shall determine the subjects of examination for applicants for
				licensure as nursing home administrators, and the scope, content and format of
				such examinations which in any examination shall be the same for all
				candidates; provided, however, that such examinations shall include examination
				of the applicant to demonstrate his proficiency in the rules and regulations of
				health and safety. The holder of a license under the provisions of this act
				
									33-22-101 to
				33-22-110 shall be deemed
				qualified to serve as the administrator of a nursing home.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 7; W.S. 1957, 33-291.7.
33-22-108. Powers and duties of
				board.
(a) The board shall:
(i) Develop, impose and enforce standards which must be met by
				individuals in order to receive a license as a nursing home administrator,
				which standards shall be designed to insure that nursing home administrators
				will be individuals who are of good character and are otherwise suitable, and
				who, by training or experience, in the field of institutional administration,
				are qualified to serve as nursing home administrators;
(ii) Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including
				examinations and investigations, for determining whether an individual meets
				such standards;
(iii) Issue licenses to individuals determined, after
				application of such techniques, to meet such standards, and revoke or suspend
				licenses previously issued by the board in any case where the individual
				holding such license is determined substantially to have failed to conform to
				the requirements of such standards, subject to the provisions of the Wyoming
				Administrative Procedure Act
				
									16-3-101 through
				16-3-115;
(iv) Conduct a continuing study and investigation of nursing
				homes and administrators of nursing homes within the state with a view to the
				improvement of the standards imposed for the licensing of such administrators
				and of procedures and methods for the enforcement of standards with respect to
				administrators of nursing homes who have been licensed as such;
(v) Establish and carry out procedures designed to insure that
				individuals licensed as nursing home administrators will, during any period
				that they serve as such, comply with the requirements of such standards;
				and
(vi) Receive, investigate, and take appropriate action with
				respect to, any charge or complaint filed with the board to the effect that any
				individual licensed as a nursing home administrator has failed to comply with
				the requirements of such standards.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 8; W.S. 1957, 33-291.8.
33-22-109. Rules and
				regulations.
The board shall have the authority to make such rules and
				regulations not inconsistent with law as may be necessary for the proper
				performance of its duties, and to take such other action as may be necessary to
				enable the state to meet the requirements set forth in section 1908 of the
				Social Security Act, the federal rules and regulations promulgated thereunder,
				and other pertinent federal authority.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 9; W.S. 1957, 33-291.9.
33-22-110. Misdemeanor.
It shall be unlawful and a misdemeanor for any person to act or
				serve in the capacity of a nursing home administrator unless he is the holder
				of a license as a nursing home administrator, issued in accordance with the
				provisions of this act
				
									33-22-101 through
				33-22-110.
Source:Laws 1969, ch. 202, 10; W.S. 1957, 33-291.10.Appendix
				B:
CONTINUING EDUCATION AFFIDAVIT AND DOCUMENTATION OF
ATTENDANCE Board of Nursing Home Administrators
2301 Central Avenue
Barrett Bldg., 3rd Floor
Cheyenne, WY 82002
(307) 777-6313
Please provide information for each activity for which you are
				requesting contact clock hours. Type or print neatly. Illegible forms cannot be
				processed. All activities submitted must be itemized below. If additional space
				is needed, photocopy an additional sheet and attach. Attach Documentation of
				Attendance to this page. The Board will accept copies of Documentation.
				Originals will not be returned to the licensee.
* Do Not Mark. Office Use Only.
TOTAL HOURS SUBMITTED
This is to certify that the above and attached information is
				accurate and represents my continuing education activities completed during my
				current license renewal period which have not been previously approved.
SIGNATURE OF LICENSEE DATE
Approved by the Board after review of the committee on
DATE SIGNATURE OF
BOARD MEMBER
AFFIDAVIT
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The licensee being duly sworn, declares that he/she is the
				person who is referenced to on this document, that the information supplied
				therein is true to the best of his/her knowledge, and that he/she understands
				the requirements for continuing education.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this day of , 19 .
Notary Public
My commission expires .