Alabama Administrative Code
Title 610 - ALABAMA BOARD OF NURSING
Chapter 610-X-15 - STUDENT NURSE APPRENTICES
Section 610-X-15-.04 - Competency Validation And Supervision

(1) Licensed healthcare facilities may employ student nurse apprentices to perform nursing skills, tasks, and activities, as submitted by Alabama Industry Recognized and Registered Apprenticeship Program and approved by the Board, provided that such training, tasks, skills, and activities are performed under supervision by licensed nurses.

(2) The nursing education program retains responsibility for validating the apprentice's education or competency to perform each nursing skill pursuant to the apprentice performing those skills under the supervision of a licensed nurse at the healthcare facility. Skills not routinely validated in the education program may be competency validated by the clinical supervising nurse.

(3) The supervising licensed nurse is responsible for validating, an apprentice's competency to perform nursing skills or activities assigned to the apprentice in the clinical setting.

(4) A supervising licensed nurse may suspend an apprenticeship - due to poor performance and collaborate with the nursing education program to oversee remediation - until the apprentice can perform at an acceptable skill level. Failure to perform at an acceptable level could result in dismissal from the apprenticeship and failure of the nursing education program.