Nev. Admin. Code § 632.850

Current through October 11, 2024
Section 632.850 - Duties of coordinator of approved program

The coordinator of an approved program for medication aides - certified shall:

1. Assist with the development of the budget of the program.
2. Assist with the development of procedures for admission to the program.
3. Select and supervise as many qualified instructors as necessary to carry out the program.
4. Obtain adequate education facilities for training, including areas to practice nursing skills, and sufficient equipment for administering medication.
5. Obtain long-term care clinical facilities for training.
6. Provide each trainee with instructional materials during those hours in which they can be put to maximum use.
7. Plan an orientation program for trainees at each clinical facility used for training. The time spent for orientation may not be included in the 100 hours required for training pursuant to NAC 632.830.
8. Ensure that each trainee is clearly identified as a trainee in a manner which is easily recognizable to each patient, member of a patient's family, visitor or member of the medical staff for whom the trainee works.
9. Develop a system of maintaining permanent records which are essential to the operation of the program, including, without limitation:
(a) The current and final records of each trainee, which must include, without limitation, a list of the duties relating to the administration of medication to be performed and the skills to be learned in the program, with notations of satisfactory or unsatisfactory performance, the date of the performance and the name of the supervising instructor.
(b) The current records of the activities of the program.
(c) The records of each instructor.

Records maintained pursuant to this subsection must be retained by the coordinator of the approved training program for medication aides - certified for not less than 4 years after the date on which the record is created.

10. Develop written policies for admission to, continuance in, and dismissal and withdrawal from the program.
11. Report to the academic administrator of the Board the name of each trainee who satisfactorily completes the program within 30 days after the completion of the program.
12. Report to the Board the name of any trainee involved in an error in the administration of medication, including a root cause analysis of the error.
13. Submit annual reports on forms provided by the Board containing information required by the Board.

Nev. Admin. Code § 632.850

Added to NAC by Bd. of Nursing by R112-11, eff. 2-15-2012

NRS 632.120, 632.292