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<section article="gho" article_name="Health Occupations" number="8-6A-05" title_number="8" title_name="Nurses" subtitle_number="6A" subtitle_name="Certification of Nursing Assistants, Dialysis Technicians, and Medication Technicians">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The Board, after consultation with relevant stakeholders, shall adopt regulations establishing:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>Qualifications for certified nursing assistants, including certified medicine aides;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Qualifications for certified dialysis technicians;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>Qualifications for certified medication technicians;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Standards for qualification of applicants for certification, including the applicant’s criminal history, work record, and prohibitions against behavior which may be potentially harmful to patients; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>Standards for the online provision of didactic instruction in a nursing assistant training program that meets the requirements established by the Board.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>To qualify for certification as a nursing assistant, a certified medicine aide, a dialysis technician, or a medication technician, an applicant shall meet the requirements set by the Board.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Requirements set by the Board under paragraph (1) of this subsection regarding qualifications for certification as a certified nursing assistant–I shall include provisions to allow an individual who has been practicing as a temporary nursing assistant, in accordance with the waiver of the requirements of 42 C.F.R. § 483.35(d) issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on March 6, 2020, to apply on–the–job experience as a nursing assistant toward the total number of training hours required for certification as a certified nursing assistant–I.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>An applicant for a certificate shall:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Submit to a criminal history records check in accordance with § 8–303 of this title;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Submit to the Board:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>An application to the Board on the form that the Board requires; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Written verification that the requirement in item (i) of this paragraph is being or has been met;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>Provide evidence, as required by the Board, of successful completion of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>An approved nursing assistant training program or approved acute care nursing assistant training program;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>An approved dialysis technician training program;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>An approved course in medication administration; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>A portion of an approved nursing education program that the Board determines meets the requirements of an approved nursing assistant training program or medication administration course;</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="iv">
        <text>Pay to the Board an application fee set by the Board;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="v">
        <text>Be of good moral character;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vi">
        <text>Be at least 16 years old to apply for certification as a nursing assistant;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="vii">
        <text>Be at least 18 years old to apply for certification as a dialysis technician; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="viii">
        <text>Be at least 18 years old to apply for certification as a medication technician.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>An applicant for certification as a certified nursing assistant shall submit to the Board satisfactory evidence of passing a nursing assistant competency evaluation.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>An applicant who has completed an approved acute care nursing assistant training program shall be deemed to have fulfilled the classroom and clinical standards to sit for the nursing assistant competency evaluation.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>An applicant for a certificate may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Have committed any act or omission that would be grounds for discipline or denial of certification under this subtitle; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Have a record of abuse, negligence, misappropriation of a resident’s property, or any disciplinary action taken or pending in any other state or territory of the United States against the certification of the nursing assistant or medication technician in the state or territory.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>Beginning April 1, 2026, a certified nursing assistant–II may be certified as a certified nursing assistant–I by:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>Submitting an application to the Board on the form that the Board requires; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Providing satisfactory evidence of:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>Successful completion of an approved nursing assistant training program; and</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>Passing a nursing assistant competency evaluation.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
