Qualifications of applicant for licensure as nursing facility administrator. [Effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings.] Each applicant for licensure as a nursing facility administrator pursuant to this chapter must:
1. Be of good moral character and physically and emotionally capable of administering a facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care.
2. Have satisfactorily completed a course of instruction and training prescribed or approved by the Board, including the study of:
(a) The needs which are to be properly served by a facility for skilled nursing or facility for intermediate care;
(b) The laws governing the operation of a facility and the protection of the patients’ interests; and
(c) The elements of good administration of a facility.
Ê In lieu of the specific requirements of this subsection, the applicant may present other evidence satisfactory to the Board of sufficient education, training or experience by which he would be qualified to administer, supervise and manage a facility.
3. Pass an examination conducted and prescribed by the Board pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
4. Submit with his application:
(a) A complete set of his fingerprints and written permission authorizing the board to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report; and
(b) A fee to cover the actual cost of obtaining the report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
5. Meet such other standards and qualifications as the Board may from time to time establish.
Last modified: February 27, 2006