Hawaii Administrative Rules
Title 16 - DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS
Chapter 90 - NURSING HOME ADMINISTRATORS
Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 16-90-2 - Definitions

Whenever used in this chapter, unless otherwise stated, or unless the context or subject matter requires a different meaning, the following terms shall have the respective meanings hereinafter set forth or indicated:

"Board" means the board of examiners of nursing home administrators of the State.

"Nursing home" means a place authorized as such by the appropriate licensing authority of this State for the care of patients requiring continued nursing or health care, or both, such as a skilled nursing facility or an intermediate care facility.

"Nursing home administrator" means any individual who is responsible for the overall administration of a nursing home involving the planning, organizing, directing, and controlling of its operation, whether or not the individual has an ownership interest in the home and whether or not the functions and duties are shared with one or more other individuals, and who has been licensed and registered as such by the board in accordance with the provisions of the State licensing statute. A nursing home administrator who has been licensed and registered as such by the board is so designated by the initials NHA, nursing home administrator, after the licensee's name.

"Nursing home administrator-in-training" means an individual registered as such with the board, under and pursuant to the law and this chapter.

"Persons" includes individuals, partnerships, corporations, associations, or public or private organizations of any character other than agencies.

"Practical experience in the administration of a skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility" means the administration of services to more than one individual; administrative services which have as a major component the supervision of more than one profession or discipline; and an administrative position in which the individual has assumed direct responsibility and is held accountable for the individual's acts to the administrator or governing body of the facility.

"Practice of nursing home administration" means the performance of any act, or the making of any decision involved in the planning, organizing, directing, or controlling of the operation of a nursing home.