Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 13, September 23, 2024
Subpart 1.
Duration of individual student practicums.
An applicant must complete a 1,000-hour practicum unless the
applicant presents evidence to the board that the applicant has experience as
described in subpart 2 for a
reduction in the number of practicum hours. The board shall determine the
minimum number of hours of practicum to be completed by an applicant by
comparing the applicant's expertise to the requirements in subpart
2 and shall notify the
applicant of the board's decision.
Subp.
2.
Waiver and minimum number of hours.
An individual may qualify for a reduction in hours or waiver
of the 1,000-hour practicum by providing evidence of the following documented
health care experience and satisfying the board-approved assessment
tool:
A. 750 hours for an individual
with two or more years of managerial or administrative employment experience,
including supervision of at least 25 employees and responsibility for an annual
budget of at least $1,000,000;
B.
750 hours for an individual who has two or more years of employment in a
hospital or nursing facility in any professional capacity or in any direct
patient care capacity;
C. 500 hours
for an individual who has served two or more years as a department manager with
supervisory and budgetary responsibility or meets one or more of the following
criteria:
(1) the individual does not meet
the requirements for assistant administrator under item D or the definition in
part 6400.5100, but has otherwise held
that title in a nursing facility or hospital and has performed under the title
for two or more years;
(2) the
individual has served, for two or more years, as director of nurses in a
hospital or registered housing with services establishment that has an arranged
comprehensive home care license; or
(3) the individual has served as a housing
manager in an assisted living facility or registered housing with services
establishment that has an arranged comprehensive home care license;
D. 200 hours for an individual who
has served one or more years as a full-time hospital administrator or hospital
assistant administrator with responsibility for both resident care and
administrative functions, or who has served two or more years as a full-time
director of nurses in a nursing facility; or
E. the documented experience requirement is
waived for an individual who has one year of continuous full-time employment as
the assistant administrator, chief executive officer, senior leadership person
with a nursing home administrator or health services executive reporting
directly to them, or an equivalent role with responsibility for both resident
care and administrative functions. Time working as an acting administrator
under an acting license or permit in the same nursing facility where the
individual also served as the assistant administrator, chief executive officer,
or equivalent role meets this requirement if the individual's employment under
both titles combined was one continuous year.
Subp. 3.
Method of measuring
experience.
The amount of experience required to qualify for a practicum
reduction under subpart
2, items C, D, and E, shall
be measured in full-time equivalency at the rate of 35 hours per week.
Subp. 4.
Effective
date.
An applicant who applies on or after September 1, 2017, must
follow the requirements in this part.
