Kan. Admin. Regs. § 28-51-113 - Home health aide qualifications
(a) Each home health aide candidate shall be
a Kansas-certified nurse aide in good standing on the public nurse aide
registry and complete a 20-hour home health aide course approved by the
department.
(b) Upon completing a
home health aide course as specified in subsection (a), each home health aide
shall be required to pass a state test as specified in 2851-116 .
(c) Each individual who
completes the requirements specified in subsections (a) and (b) shall be
certified by the department and shall be listed on the public nurse aide
registry.
(d)
(1) Each home health aide trainee shall be
allowed to provide home health services to patients of the home health agency
under the supervision of a registered nurse.
(2) Each home health aide trainee who
completes an approved 20-hour course shall be certified by the department, upon
completion of the requirements specified in subsections (a) and (b), within 90
days from the beginning date of the initial course in order to continue
employment providing home health services. Home health aide trainee status
shall be for one 90-day period only.
(3) Any Kansas-certified nurse aide who is
eligible for employment and who is enrolled in a 20-hour home health aide
course may work for a home health agency as a home health aide trainee. The
home health agency's registered nurse shall retain in the home health aide
trainee's personnel file a form approved by the department attesting that the
home health aide trainee has met the minimum competencies for a home health
aide trainee.
(e) Each
20-hour home health aide course shall be administered according to the
following criteria:
(1) Any home health aide
issued a nurse aide certificate by the department or enrolled in a 90-hour
nurse aide course as specified in K.A.R. 28-39-165 may enroll in a 20-hour home
health aide course after being prescreened and tested for reading comprehension
at an eighth-grade level.
(2) Each
20-hour home health aide course shall be sponsored by one of the following:
(A) A home health agency;
(B) a postsecondary school under the
jurisdiction of the state board of regents; or
(C) a postsecondary school accredited by the
north central association of colleges and schools.
(3) A licensee shall not sponsor or provide
clinical instruction for a 20-hour home health aide course if that licensee
meets any of the conditions listed in 42 C.F.R. 484.36(a)(2)(i), as in effect
on October 1, 2011, which is hereby adopted by reference.
(4) Each 20-hour course shall be prepared and
administered in accordance with the guidelines established by the department in
the "Kansas certified home health aide guidelines (20 hours)," dated September
29, 2021, and the "Kansas home health aide sponsor and instructor manual,"
dated July 26, 2021, which are hereby adopted by reference.
(f) No correspondence course shall
be accepted as a 20-hour home health aide course.
(g) Distance-learning educational offerings
and computer-based educational offerings shall meet the requirements specified
in subsection (e).
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