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Virginia Administrative Code
Title 18. Professional And Occupational Licensing
Agency 90. Board of Nursing
Chapter 26. Regulations for Nurse Aide Education Programs
12/30/2024

18VAC90-26-60. Requirements for continued approval.

A. Program review.

1. Each nurse aide education program shall be reviewed annually either by a survey visit by an agent of the board or by a written program evaluation. Each program shall be reviewed by a survey visit at least every two years following initial review or by a site visit whenever deemed necessary by the board to ensure continued compliance.

2. The program coordinator shall prepare and submit a program evaluation report on a form provided by the board in the intervening year that a survey visit is not conducted.

3. Any additional information needed to evaluate a program's compliance with regulations of the board must be submitted within a timeframe specified by the board.

B. Continued, conditional, or withdrawal of approval.

1. The board shall receive and review the report of the survey visit or program evaluation report and may grant continued approval, place a program on conditional approval, or withdraw approval.

a. Granting continued approval. A nurse aide education program shall continue to be approved provided the requirements set forth in subsection B of 18VAC90-26-20 are maintained.

b. Placing a program on conditional approval. If the board determines that a nurse aide education program (i) has not filed its biennial survey visit or program evaluation report; (ii) is unresponsive or uncooperative in the scheduling of the survey or site visit; or (iii) is not maintaining the requirements of subsection B of 18VAC90-26-20, as evidenced by the survey visit or program evaluation report, the board may place the program on conditional approval and the program provider shall be given a reasonable period of time to correct the identified deficiencies. Within 30 days of the mailing of a decision on conditional approval, the program may request an informal conference to be convened in accordance with § 2.2-4019 of the Code of Virginia.

(1) The board shall receive and review reports of progress toward correcting identified deficiencies. When a final report is received at the end of the specified time showing corrections of deficiencies, the board may grant continued approval.

(2) If the program provider fails to correct the identified deficiencies within the time specified by the board, the board may withdraw approval.

c. Withdrawing approval.

(1) If the board determines that a nurse aide education program is not maintaining the requirements of subsection B of 18VAC90-26-20, an informal conference will be convened in accordance with § 2.2-4019 of the Code of Virginia. If the recommendation to withdraw approval following an informal conference is accepted by the board or a panel thereof, no further action will be required unless the program requests a formal hearing.

(2) The program provider may request a formal hearing before the board or a panel thereof pursuant to § 2.2-4020 and subdivision 11 of § 54.1-2400 of the Code of Virginia if it objects to any action of the board relating to withdrawal of approval.

2. If the decision of the board or a panel thereof following a formal hearing is to withdraw approval or continue on conditional approval with terms or conditions, the program shall be advised of the right to appeal the decision to the appropriate circuit court in accordance with § 2.2-4026 of the Code of Virginia and Part 2A of the Rules of the Supreme Court of Virginia.

Statutory Authority

§§ 54.1-2400 and 54.1-3005 of the Code of Virginia.

Historical Notes

Derived from Virginia Register Volume 30, Issue 10, eff. February 27, 2014; amended, Virginia Register Volume 37, Issue 17, eff. May 12, 2021.

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