PURPOSE: This rule describes the conditions and procedures for examination.

1. (1) The board shall approve the content and form of all examinations administered to applicants for licensure.
2. (2) The examination must be taken within twelve (12) months of the written notice of board evaluation and qualification. Failure to do so will cause full reapplication to be necessary.
3. (3) Qualified applicants will be eligible to take the national and/or state examination through the testing service by following the procedures set forth in sections (4)–(7) of this rule.
4. (4) Applicants must submit the National Association of Boards of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB) Application Form for Computerized Testing and the required fees to the board office. The applicant will receive from the testing service an authorization letter including a list of testing center vendors, each center’s toll-free telephone number and instructions on the scheduling process.
5. (5) Applicants must schedule to sit the examination within sixty (60) days of the date on the testing service’s authorization letter.
6. (6) Failure to schedule and sit the examination(s) within the sixty (60)-day period will cause the applicant’s name to be removed from the eligibility list kept by the testing service. Applicants may reschedule by resubmitting the NAB Application Form and paying any required fees.
7. (7) Applicants must comply with all criteria and requirements established by the board, the National Association of Board of Examiners of Long Term Care Administrators (NAB), the testing service and the testing center.
8. (8) Individuals making initial application for licensure, within twenty-one (21) days of a board meeting date, may be required to wait until a subsequent date to be evaluated.
9. (9) Applicants shall obtain a passing score on the examination(s) administered by the board. The passing score shall be based upon the scale score passing point of one hundred thirteen (113) on the federal portion of the examination and seventy-five percent (75%) on the state portion of the examination.
10. (10) If an applicant fails to make a passing grade on one or both of the required examinations, the applicant may make application for reexamination and pay the required fees. If an applicant fails only one of the required examinations and then fails to retake and pass the examination within a twelve (12)-month period, the applicant shall be required to take and pass both examinations before the board will issue the applicant a license.
11. (11) If an applicant fails the examination a third time, the applicant must complete a course of instruction prescribed and approved by the board. After completion of the boardprescribed course of instruction, the applicant may reapply for board-approved examination(s). No applicant shall be licensed by the board after a third licensure examination failure unless the applicant successfully completes the board-prescribed course of instruction and passes the board-approved examination(s). With regard to any nationally certified examination required for licensure, no examination scores from other states shall be recognized by the board after the applicant has failed for a third time to pass the examination.

AUTHORITY: section 344.070, RSMo Supp. 1998.* Original rule filed May 13, 1980, effective Aug. 11, 1980. Amended: Filed Oct. 16, 1985, effective March 14, 1986. Amended: Filed Oct. 1, 1987, effective Jan. 14, 1988. Amended: Filed Dec. 4, 1989, effective March 1, 1990. Emergency amendment filed Dec. 13, 1991, effective Dec. 23, 1991, expired April 20, 1992. Amended: Filed Jan. 3, 1992, effective May 14, 1992. Amended: Filed April 30, 1998, effective Oct. 30, 1998. Amended: Filed March 1, 1999, effective Aug. 30, 1999. Emergency amendment filed Nov. 17, 1999, effective Dec. 11, 1999, expired June 7, 2000. Amended: Filed November 1, 1999, effective April 30, 2000.

*Original authority: 344.070, RSMo 1969, amended 1979, 1993, 1995. 13 CSR 73-2