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Oklahoma Administrative Code (Last Updated: March 11, 2021) |
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TITLE 310. Oklahoma State Department of Health |
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Chapter 677. Nurse Aide Training and Certification |
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Subchapter 3. Nurse Aide Training and Competency Examination Program |
SECTION 310:677-3-9. Requirements for administration of the competency examination
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- (a) The competency examination shall be administered and evaluated only by a Department approved entity which shall be periodically monitored by the Department.(b) Each approved examination entity must provide the Department with the following:(1) Written job analysis studies to determine the pool of test questions.(2) Test question validation studies.(3) Capabilities of providing competency results in the proper format for compatibility with the Department's nurse aide registry within thirty (30) days of scoring.(4) Assurances that the written and skills testing process are not compromised.(c) Each approved examination entity shall provide the examinee with the following:(1) The notice showing pass/fail results.(2) The notice shall specify the areas of failure to the nurse aide.(d) The Department shall withdraw approval of a testing entity when it allows one or more of the following:(1) Disclosure of the competency examination.(2) Allowing another entity not approved by the Department to score the competency examination.(3) Tampering with the competency examination.(4) The competency examination was administered by a non-qualified individual.(e) If the competency examination is proctored by facility personnel:(1) The test results must be transmitted to the scoring entity immediately after completion of the written or oral and skills examination.(2) A record of successful completion of the competency examination must be included in the nurse aide registry within 30 days of the date the individual is found to be competent. Competency is determined by a passing score on the written or oral examination and skills examination.(3) If the competency evaluation is to be proctored by facility personnel and the entity chooses to delay the administration of the written or oral examination and/or skills examination after completion of the training which will delay certification, this information shall be provided in writing in the training program application and signed by the trainee.(f) The trainee may sit for the written or oral examination and skills examination at a different location than where training was completed if the testing entity is provided with a Training Verification Form.