Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND LICENSING › Chapter 246-843 - Nursing home administrators › Section 246-843-010 - General definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter
				  unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) "Active administrative charge" means
				direct participation in the operating concerns of a nursing home. Operating
				concerns include, but are not limited to, interaction with staff and residents,
				liaison with the community, liaison with regulatory agencies, pertinent
				business and financial responsibilities, planning and other activities as
				identified in the most current job analysis published by the National
				Association of Boards of Examiners for Long Term Care Administrators.
(2) "Administrator-in-training (AIT)" means
				an individual in a nursing home training program approved by the
				board.
(3) "Board" means the state
				board of nursing home administrators, established under chapter 18.52 RCW,
				representative of the professions and institutions concerned with the care of
				the chronically ill and infirm aged patients.
(4) "Collocated facilities" means more than
				one licensed nursing facility situated on a contiguous or adjacent property,
				whether or not there are intersecting streets. Other criteria to qualify as a
				collocated facility would be determined by the nursing home licensing agency
				under chapter 18.51 RCW.
(5)
				"Department of health" or "DOH" means the agency responsible for issuing
				licenses to nursing home administrators under chapter 18.52 RCW.
(6) "Health service executive" or "HSE" means
				a voluntary qualification standard issued by the National Association of Long
				Term Care Administrators Board (NAB) that recognizes a common core and unique
				entry level competencies by line of service. Successful demonstration of this
				combination of competencies is measured by education, experience, and
				examination that meets or exceeds the current NAB requirements to practice as a
				nursing home administrator, an assisted living administrator, and an
				administrator practicing in the field of home and community based service in
				the majority of jurisdictions.
(7)
				The "National Association of Long Term Care Administrators Boards" or "NAB"
				means the national organization of regulatory boards and agencies responsible
				for licensure of long-term care administrators in all fifty states and the
				District of Columbia.
(8) "On-site,
				full-time administrator" means an individual, licensed under chapter 18.52 RCW,
				who is in active administrative charge of one nursing home facility or
				collocated facilities for a minimum of:
(a)
				Four days per week and an average of forty hours per week, if administering a
				facility with fifty or more nursing home beds;
(b) Four days per week and an average of
				thirty hours per week, if administering a facility with thirty-one to
				forty-nine nursing home beds; or
(c) Four days per week and an average of
				twenty hours per week, if administering a facility with one to thirty nursing
				home beds.