Nursing assistants and training of nursing assistants: Powers and duties of Health Division and State Board of Nursing; provision of information to State Board of Nursing.
1. The Health Division may review the personnel files of a medical facility or facility for the dependent to determine that each nursing assistant employed by the facility has a current certificate.
2. The Health Division shall review the qualifications of instructors of nursing assistants for each program of which the Division is notified pursuant to NRS 632.286.
3. The Health Division may conduct the review of training programs for nursing assistants in facilities for long-term care.
4. The Health Division and any other state agency which regulates medical facilities and facilities for the dependent shall provide to the State Board of Nursing any information it discovers concerning:
(a) Programs and instructors for training nursing assistants which do not comply with the requirements established by the State Board of Nursing.
(b) The failure of a nursing assistant to perform consistently at a safe level.
(c) The results of any investigation of a facility if the investigation concerns a nursing assistant or instructor or training program for nursing assistants.
5. The State Board of Nursing shall investigate any report submitted pursuant to subsection 4 and may revoke approval of a program or instructor if the allegations of the report are true.
Last modified: February 26, 2006