Responsibilities of training programs for screening of potential students

1. Certified nurse aide, home health aide, nurse aide, and medication assistant training programs must screen potential students or individuals seeking entry into a training program. This screening should be completed prior to beginning the training program and should occur in sufficient advance of the training to minimize delays and allow for changes in career choices in a timely manner. 2. Those applicants with a history including conviction of a crime substantially related to the qualification, functions, or duties of a certified nurse aide, home health aide, nurse aide, or medication assistant or a finding on a state nurse aide registry or federal registry should be informed they might not be allowed to begin the training program or take the test without providing specific information relating to their background, criminal history, or impairment. 3. The training program is responsible to provide sufficient screening to identify those individuals that would be a risk to the vulnerable populations served by the certified nurse aide, home health aide, nurse aide, or medication assistant and to submit that information to the department for review prior to entering the individual into a program.