Statement of Scope
Nursing Home Administrator Examining Board
Relating to: | Board approval of education programs |
1. Finding/nature of emergency (Emergency Rule only):
N/A
2. Detailed description of the objective of the proposed rule:
The Nursing Home Administrator Examining Board will conduct a review of chapter NHA 3 in order to revise the criteria for board approval of education programs.
3. Description of the existing policies relevant to the rule, new policies proposed to be included in the rule, and an analysis of policy alternatives:
Chapter NHA 3 currently contains the requirements for the Nursing Home Administrator Board to approve educational programs leading to licensing. The Board has identified the need to clarify this criterion to ensure that they are consistent with current professional and academic standards, and to prevent confusion within academic institutions and with potential licensees. The alternative to promulgating rules would be to not update the rules. This would result in stakeholders continuing to lack clarity as to the requirements to what constitutes acceptable educational programs.
4. Detailed explanation of statutory authority for the rule (including the statutory citation and language):
Section 15.08 (5) (b), Stats., provides an examining board “[s]hall promulgate rules for its own guidance and for the guidance of the trade or profession to which it pertains. . .” Section 227.11 (2) (a), Stats., “[e]ach agency may promulgate rules interpreting the provisions of any statute enforced or administered by the agency, if the agency considers it necessary to effectuate the purpose of the statute…” Section 456.03 (4), Stats., provides that an applicant for a license as a nursing home administrator shall complete “a regular course of study or equivalent specialized courses or a program of study which the examining board considers adequate academic preparation for nursing home administration.” 5. Estimate of amount of time that state employees will spend developing the rule and of other resources necessary to develop the rule:
80 hours.
6. List with description of all entities that may be affected by the proposed rule:
Candidates for Wisconsin licensure as a Nursing Home Administrator and schools offering educational programs.
7. Summary and preliminary comparison with any existing or proposed federal regulation that is intended to address the activities to be regulated by the proposed rule:
None.
8. Anticipated economic impact of implementing the rule (note if the rule is likely to have a significant economic impact on small businesses):
The proposed rule will have minimal to no economic impact on small businesses and the state’s economy as a whole.
