In order to be granted a waiver, the issuing state must verify that you took and passed the Nursing Home Administrator Licensing Examination developed by the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards Professional Examination Service examination prior to October The verification must be in the form of a letter on official letterhead affixed with a state seal , including the following: your name, license number, date license issued, examination taken, examination date, examination score raw score and scale score , registration status, expiration date and disciplinary action if any.
Navigation menu. Qualifications To qualify for licensure as a nursing home administrator in New York State, you must: be at least 21 years of age; be of good moral character and suitability; hold a Bachelor's or higher level Degree from an accredited educational institution, including or supplemented by 15 credit hours of specific education; complete an Administrator-In-Training AIT Program Internship OR qualifying field experience; complete a course in nursing home administration; receive a passing score on the Nursing Home Administrator Licensing Examination.
Qualification 1 Age To satisfy Qualification 1, you must be at least 21 years of age. Qualification 2 Character and Suitability To satisfy Qualification 2, the Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators must determine that there is nothing in your background that may affect your ability to carry out the responsibilities of a nursing home administrator in a professional, competent and ethical manner. Qualification 3 Education To satisfy Qualification 3, you must document that you hold a Bachelor's or higher level Degree from an accredited educational institution.
A listing of accredited educational institutions that offer course work to satisfy Qualification 3 can be viewed at Accredited Educational Institutions PDF The following may be substituted to satisfy the 15 credit hour education requirement: Two or more years of service as the full-time Administrator-of-Record of an out-of-state nursing home within the last five years.
An Administrator-of-Record is a licensed and currently registered nursing home administrator who is charged with the general administration of a nursing home.
Qualification 4 Field Experience To satisfy Qualification 4, you must document successful completion of a month Administrator-In-Training Program Internship OR two years of qualifying field experience.
Full Satisfaction Full Satisfaction Education Internship Credit Field Experience Credit An internship at a qualifying nursing home completed as part of an accredited educational institution degree requirement. You must have graduated from the respective degree program and document that the internship was equivalent in length and content to the internship requirement in New York State and was successfully completed.
You must have been granted a nursing home administrator license in that state and document that the internship was equivalent in length and content to the internship requirement in New York State and was successfully completed.
Full-time is defined as a minimum of 35 hours per week onsite. Qualification 5 Course of Study To satisfy Qualification 5, you must document successful completion of three credit hours of education at an accredited educational institution in the area of Nursing Home Administration previously documented in Qualification 3.
Revised: January Department of Health About Mary T. Bassett, M. Your browser does not support iFrames. Three or more years of full-time service as a Director of Nursing Services at a qualifying nursing home within the last ten years.
No pre-approval is required. Once your application is approved and all qualifications are met, the Department will notify you that you are eligible to sit for the examination developed by the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards.
No additional fee is required for initial registration. There is no reciprocity for licensed nursing home administrators in New York State. The following information applies to administrators with two or more years of service as the full-time Administrator-of-Record of an out-of-state nursing facility.
If you do not have this experience, please proceed with an Initial Application. Please see above for the supporting documents required with these forms. Out-of-State verification and score transfer see below are required to demonstrate that you meet the following licensure qualifications and requirements established by the Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators in New York State.
The following requirements must be met for administrator licenses held in other states to be considered for licensure in New York. Please see our Qualifications page for additional details. Out-of-state applicants must provide verifications to document eligibility.
The verification must demonstrate that the candidate is in "good standing" proving that all other nursing home administrator licenses have not been suspended, revoked or otherwise restricted for any reason. Administrators with licenses held in other states should have a passing national Nursing Home Administrator Licensing exam scale score. The nature and duration of the medical exemption must be stated in the employee's employment medical record and must be in accordance with generally accepted medical standards, see, for example, the recommendations of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Immunization Practices Advisory Committee of the U.
Department of Health and Human Services. All personnel making such report shall be referred to an appropriate health care professional for assessment of the risk to residents and personnel. Based on this assessment, the nursing home shall authorize appropriate measures to be taken, including but not limited to removal, reassignment or return to duty;.
The following terms used in this section shall be defined as follows:. The program coordinator PC shall be a registered professional nurse with at least two years experience in a nursing home and demonstrated competency to teach adult learners as evidenced and documented by at least one of the following:. This person shall have the day to day responsibility for implementing the facility's training program in accordance with the facility's policies and procedures and State and federal requirements.
The instructor shall be a registered professional nurse with at least one year of experience in a nursing home who has demonstrated ability to teach adult learners as evidenced and documented by at least one of the following:. This person shall be a registered professional nurse who has one year of nursing home experience and has successfully completed the State approved clinical evaluator or nurse aide evaluator program. Effective July 1, , only individuals possessing nurse aide evaluator designation may administer the State RHCF nurse aide competency examinations.
The training program shall be supervised by a Program Coordinator who meets the definition specified in subparagraph i of paragraph 1 of this subdivision and conducted by the Primary Instructor who meets the definition specified in subparagraph ii of paragraph 1 of this subdivision. The program coordinator may be the director of nursing services provided that the director of nursing services does not perform the actual training. Additional health care personnel may supplement the instructor to provide specialized training provided that such supplemental trainers have at least one year of experience in their field of expertise.
The clinical training shall as a minimum include at least 30 hours of supervised practical experience in a nursing home. The nurse aide training program shall include stated goals, objectives, and measurable performance criteria specific to the curriculum subject material, the resident population and the purpose of the facility, and shall be consistent with the curriculum outlined below. This curriculum shall be taught at a fourth 4th to sixth 6th grade English literacy level.
Facilities with special populations shall supplement the curriculum to address the needs of such populations accordingly. The curriculum shall otherwise include but not be limited to the following:. At the end of the training program, a copy of the performance record shall be given to the trainee and the trainee's employer, if different from the training facility. As a minimum, the performance record shall include the following:.
Subsequent to the completion of the nurse aide training program including the satisfactory performance of all duties and skills listed in the performance record, the facility shall arrange for the nurse aide trainee to take and pass the State authorized residential health care facility nurse aide clinical skills competency examination and the written or oral competency examination as follows:.
The trainee shall have three opportunities to pass the clinical skills examination; and. The nurse aide trainee will obtain certification and be listed in the Registry upon passing the written or oral examination.
The certified nurse aide shall be recertifed every two years no later than the last day of the month in which certification was received. The operator shall implement nurse aide recertification in accordance with the following:. If the nursing home does not employ a qualified professional person to furnish a specific service to be provided by the facility, the nursing home shall have that service furnished to residents by a qualified person or agency outside the facility in accordance with the following:.
Nursing homes shall have in effect a written transfer agreement with one or more general hospitals as required to meet the medical care needs of residents. Such transfer agreements shall:. In pooled accounts, there shall be a separate accounting for each resident's share.
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