Okla. Admin. Code § 310:679-9-4

Current through Vol. 41, No. 19, June 17, 2024

Section 310:679-9-4 - [Effective until 9/14/2024] Continuing education requirements

(a) Each licensee shall be responsible for identifying and seeking continuing professional education activities.

(b) Licensees holding a nursing home administrator license and Certified Assistant Administrators shall successfully complete twenty-four (24) clock hours of continuing education (commonly referred to as CEUs or continuing education units) during each licensing year.

(1) Tier 2 RC/AL administrators shall successfully complete eighteen (18) clock hours of continuing education during each licensing year.

(2) Tier 2 Residential Care administrators shall successfully complete sixteen (16) clock hours of continuing education during each licensing year.

(3) Licensed Tier 2 Adult Day Care Administrators shall successfully complete twelve (12) clock hours of continuing education during each licensing year.

(4) Licensed Tier 2 ICF/IID-16 administrators shall successfully complete sixteen (16) clock hours of continuing education during each licensing year.

(c) Licensees/certificate holders are responsible for maintaining their own continuing education records.

(d) Carry-over of continuing education hours earned in one licensing year that were in excess of the hours required for that year to a subsequent licensing year is not permitted.

(e) Licensed administrators who have attended and received credit for previously approved program content shall be denied credit for attending subsequent duplicate programs in the same calendar year.

(f) A licensee/certificate holder who cannot meet the continuing education requirement due to illness, emergency or hardship may petition the Department, in writing, requesting a waiver of the clock hour requirement. Any such waiver request must be received and acted- upon by the Department, on a case-by-case basis. The waiver request shall explain why compliance is not possible, and include appropriate documentation. In the event of more broadly scaled events that, in the judgment of the Department, affect large groups or the whole of the profession, the Department may take action to temporarily alter or waive CE requirements for those larger groups or all licensees for a specified time period.

(g) In the event a licensee fails to provide the Department, upon request, with documentation that the continuing education requirements have been met, the licensee will be subject to enforcement action by the Department.

(h) All licensees, even those subject to enforcement action, are required to complete continuing education.

(i) NAB/NCERS-approved programs may be counted towards annual CE requirements with supporting documentation.

Okla. Admin. Code § 310:679-9-4

Transferred from 490:1-9-4 by HB 2824 (2023), eff. 11/1/2023

Amended by Oklahoma Register, Volume 41, Issue 4, November 1, 2023, eff. 11/1/2023, exp. 9/14/2024 (Emergency)