General Continuing Education Requirements
Effective Dec 30, 2016Mass. Register #1329MGL c. 13, §§ 9, 74 MGL c. 112, §§ 108 through 117Board of Registration of Nursing Home Administrators
- (1) Every Nursing Home Administrator shall complete a minimum of 20 contact hours of continuing education per annual license renewal period.
- (2) A Nursing Home Administrator licensed pursuant to 245 CMR 3.03: Requirements for Licensure is exempt from the requirements of 245 CMR 4.02(1) during the first license renewal period.
- (3) Continuing education may not be carried over from one renewal cycle to the next.
- (4) Continuing education required by a consent agreement or Board order shall not be used to satisfy the continuing education requirement for license renewal.
(5) Computation.
- (a) 50 consecutive clock minutes of academic course work, online or correspondence course, or seminar/workshop is equivalent to one contact hour. A fraction of a contact hour may be computed by dividing the clock minutes of the activity by 50 expressed as a decimal.
- (b) One continuing education unit is equal to ten contact hours
- (c) One academic semester hour is equal to 15 contact hours.
- (d) One academic quarter hour is equal to 12 contact hours.
- (e) Two hours (100 minutes) of clinical experience is equal to one contact hour.