AIT time on the job Internship requirements

(a) Tier 1 administrator applicants must complete at least a 1,000 hour internship with a Department- approved preceptor. 46 (b) Tier 2 administrator applicants must complete at least a 500 hour internship with a Department- approved preceptor. (c) CAA applicants must complete at least a 500 hour internship with a Department-approved preceptor. The intern/trainee with a degree in a field related to any of the NAB defined domains of practice, OR with experience in long term care for 2 of the last 5 years shall serve a 560 hour internship, unless in the opinion of the Board or preceptor, the intern/trainee requires additional hours of training; or unless the hours required to complete the internship, are otherwise reduced by formal action of the Board. All others (with a degree not related to a NAB defined domain of practice or without experience in long term care for 2 of the last 5 years) shall serve a minimum of a 700 hour internship with the same exceptions noted wherein additional hours are required in the opinion of the Board or preceptor. (b) An internship that has been discontinued due to a period of active duty military service of the intern/trainee shall be allowed to be completed within one (1) year after the intern/trainee has completed his military service obligation. If this time frame cannot be met by the intern/trainee, the previously-started internship shall be cancelled by the Board and he will have to reapply to the Board for a new internship and pay all applicable fees. If an internship has been discontinued due to active duty military service of the preceptor, the Board will work with the intern/trainee to secure another preceptor. (d) Applicants have twenty-four (24) months to complete the required internship and cannot complete greater than 40 internship hours per week. (c) An internship that has been discontinued for any purpose other than military service, and such discontinuance exceeds one year from the date of the beginning of the discontinuance, that internship will be cancelled by the Board, and the AIT intern/trainee shall be required to reapply to the Board for a new internship and pay all applicable fees. (e) Applicants completing an internship who are called to active military duty may request stoppage on the twenty-four (24) month timeline. The Department may halt the timeline for military members called to active duty if the pause in the timeline is not likely to impede the applicant's ability to perform the required administrator duties once they are a licensed administrator. (d) Only one discontinuance is allowed. (e) 560 hour internships shall be completed in not less than fourteen (14) consecutive weeks nor more than twelve (12) consecutive months. 700 hour internships shall be completed in not less than seventeen and a half (17.5) consecutive weeks nor more than fifteen (15) consecutive months (where no more than 40 hours in any one week of the program is ever permitted). (f) This section shall be subject to the requirements of any other provisions of law. (f) An applicant may apply for a one-time extension for the twenty-four (24) month timeline. Approval is at the discretion of the Department. (g) (g) The intern/trainee must complete the internship must be completed in a facility or facilities that is (are) licensed in Oklahoma for the level of care equivalent to the administrators license/certification license or certification being sought.