Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-39-169c - Medication aide continuing education
(a) Each person who has a certificate of
completion for a medication aide training course as specified in K.A.R.
28-39-169a and who wishes to maintain the certificate shall complete, every two
years, a program of 10 hours of continuing education approved by the
secretary.
(b) The continuing
education requirement shall include one or more of the following topics:
(1) Classes of drugs and new drugs;
(2) new uses of drugs;
(3) methods of administering
medications;
(4) alternative
treatments, including herbal drugs and their potential interaction with
traditional drugs;
(5) safety in
the administration of medications; or
(6) documentation.
(c) Each program of continuing education
shall be sponsored by one of the following:
(1) A postsecondary school under the
jurisdictionof the state board of regents;
(2) an adult care home;
(3) a long-term care unit of a
hospital;
(4) a state-operated
institution for the mentally retarded; or
(5) a professional health care association
approved by the secretary.
(d) Each course instructor shall be a
registered nurse with a current Kansas license and two years of clinical
experience as a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse. Any
Kansas-licensed pharmacist actively working in the pharmacy field may be
selected to conduct part of the training under the supervision of the
instructor.
(e) Each person who
intends to be a course instructor shall submit an instructor approval
application form to the secretary at least three weeks before offering an
initial course and shall be required to receive approval as an instructor
before the first day of an initial course.
(f) Each sponsor and course instructor of
continuing education shall be responsible for ensuring that the following
requirements are met:
(1) The course shall be
prepared and administered as prescribed by regulation and the "Kansas certified
medication aide sponsor and instructor manual," as adopted in K.A.R. 28-39-169a.
(2) A course approval application
form shall be submitted to the secretary at least three weeks before offering a
course, and course approval shall be required to be received before beginning
the course.
(3) A course roster of
names, a renewal application form, and a nonrefundable renewal application fee
of $20.00 for each medication aide who has completed the course shall be
submitted to the secretary.
(4) If
clinical instruction in administering medications is included in the program,
each student administering medications shall be under the direct supervision of
the registered nurse instructor.
(g) Any sponsor or instructor who does not
fulfill the requirements specified in subsections (d), (e), and (f) may be
subject to withdrawal of approval to serve as a course instructor or a course
sponsor.
(h) College credits or
vocational training may be approved by the secretary as substantially
equivalent to medication aide continuing education. The instructor or nursing
program coordinator shall submit a department-approved form attesting that the
course content is substantially equivalent to the topics listed in paragraphs
(b)(1) through (6).
(i) Each
certified medication aide shall be responsible for notifying the secretary of
any change in the aide's address or name.
(j) No correspondence course shall be
approved for a medication aide continuing education course.
(k) Distance-learning educational offerings
and computer-based educational offerings shall meet the requirements specified
in subsections (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g).
(l) Each medication aide certificate shall be
renewed upon the department's receipt from the course instructor of the
following:
(1) Verification of the
applicant's completion of 10 hours of approved continuing education;
(2) a renewal application form; and
(3) a nonrefundable renewal application fee
of $20.00.
(m) Each
medication aide certificate or renewed certificate shall be valid for two years
from the date of issue.
(n) Each
applicant for renewal of certification shall have completed the required number
of hours of documented and approved continuing education during each
certification period immediately preceding renewalofthe certificate. Approved
continuing education hours completed in excess of the requirement shall not be
carried over to a subsequent renewal period.
(o) Each medication aide certificate that has
been expired for three or fewer years shall be reinstated upon the department's
receipt of the following:
(1) Verification of
the applicant's completion of 10 hours of approved continuing education. This
continuing education shall have been completed within the three-year period
following expiration of the certification;
(2) a renewal application form; and
(3) a nonrefundable renewal application fee
of $20.00.
(p) Each
lapsed certificate renewed within the three-year period specified in subsection
(o) shall be valid for two years from the date of issuance.
(q) Each person whose medication aide
certification has been expired for more than three years shall be required to
retake the 75-hour medication aide course.
Notes
State regulations are updated quarterly; we currently have two versions available. Below is a comparison between our most recent version and the prior quarterly release. More comparison features will be added as we have more versions to compare.
No prior version found.