General Continuing Education Requirements

(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.