N.J. Admin. Code § 8:7-1.15

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 9, May 6, 2024

Section 8:7-1.15 - Continuing education course criteria

(a) Continuing education courses eligible for contact hours under this subchapter shall include:

1. Courses, seminars, or programs focusing on professional competency and ethics, as well as legal aspects relating to the practice of public health, environmental health, and sanitation;

2. Courses, seminars, or programs in public health, health care, health education, environmental science, health planning, epidemiology;

3. Courses, seminars, or programs in public health administration, environmental health, communicable diseases, maternal and child health, and chronic diseases;

4. Courses, seminars, or programs designed to acquaint health officers and registered environmental health specialists with the utilization and application of new techniques, policy, and developments relating to public health, environmental health, and sanitation;

5. Courses, seminars, or programs in home and community based alternatives to nursing facilities, the health problems of older adults and disabled persons, and the promotion of wellness and health in older adults;

6. Courses, seminars or programs in environmental and occupational health hazard evaluations, risk communications, remediation and public health issues concerning air, water, pesticides, public health pest control, soil, wastes, food, radiation, noise, chemicals, particulates, microbiology and microbiological agents;

7. Courses, seminars or programs in emergency response, crisis management and disaster control with respect to public health issues;

8. Courses, seminars or programs concerning historical, current or future perspectives on the structure, function and roles of national, state and local boards, councils, departments and public health professionals such as health officers, public health nurses, registered environmental health specialists and public health educators; and

9. Courses, seminars or programs in public health leadership and management development; community partnerships, organizing and coalition building; the use of data and information technologies in policy development and decision making; continuous quality improvement; cultural diversity; the integration of health delivery systems; and outcomes measurement and evaluation.

(b) Any course, seminar, or program shall seek approval under the rule by the Public Health Council pursuant to the procedures set forth at N.J.A.C. 8:7-1.16for assignment of health officer and registered environmental health specialist continuing education contact hours, regardless of accreditation by other professional associations, societies, and/or organizations.

(c) Course, seminar, and program sponsors shall use The Public Health Workforce: An Agenda for the 21st Century, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 1997 (available at http://permanent.fdlp.gov/lps46996/pubhlth.pdf or upon request to the Office of Local Public Health), and, specifically, "Appendix E: Competencies for Providing Essential Public Health Services," incorporated by reference herein, as a central focus and foundation for curriculum development for all continuing education programs for which approval is being sought. Sponsors shall integrate the appropriate competencies outlined in said Appendix E into the curriculum of all programs.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:7-1.15

New Rule, R.1997 d.515, effective 12/1/1997.
See: 29 New Jersey Register 3789(a), 29 New Jersey Register 5076(a).
Amended by R.1998 d.568, effective 12/7/1998.
See: 30 New Jersey Register 3005(a), 30 New Jersey Register 4212(b).
Inserted references to registered environmental health specialists throughout; in (a), added 5 through 9; and added (c).
Notice of readoption with technical change, effective 1/3/2022.
See: 54 N.J.R. 52(a).