North Dakota § 43-34-09 - Duties of the board

§ 43-34-09. Duties of the board

The board has the duty and responsibility to: 1. Develop, impose, and enforce standards which must be met by individuals in order to receive a license as a nursing home administrator, which standards must be designed to ensure that nursing home administrators will be individuals who are of good character and are otherwise suitable, and who, by training or experience in the field of institutional administration, are qualified to serve as nursing home administrators. 2. Develop and apply appropriate techniques, including examination and investigations, for determining whether an individual meets such standards. 3. Issue licenses to individuals determined, after application of such techniques, to meet such standards, and for cause, after due notice and hearing, to revoke or suspend licenses previously issued by the board if the individual holding such license is determined substantially to have failed to conform to the requirements of such standards. 4. Establish and carry out procedures designed to ensure that individuals licensed as nursing home administrators will, during any period that they serve as such, comply with the requirements of such standards. 5. Receive, investigate, and take appropriate action with respect to, and including the revocation of a license if necessary after due notice and hearing and for cause, any charge or complaint filed with the board to the effect that any individual licensed as a nursing home administrator has failed to comply with the requirements of such standards. 6. Conduct a continuing study and investigation of nursing homes, and administrators of nursing homes within the state with a view to the improvement of the standards 7. imposed for the licensing of such administrators and of procedures and methods for the enforcement of such standards with respect to administrators of nursing homes who have been licensed as such. Conduct, or cause to be conducted, one or more courses of instruction and training sufficient to meet the requirements of this chapter, and make provisions for such courses and their accessibility to residents of this state unless it finds that there are and approves a sufficient number of courses which courses are conducted by others within this state. In lieu thereof the board may approve courses conducted within and without this state as sufficient to meet the education and training requirements of this chapter.