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Five things, and the training condition carries a setting inside it. The applicant is registered as a nursing assistant, without substantiated charges, on the health and welfare department's registry. They've received training preparing for a role in administering medications and work under the supervision of a licensed nurse in a skilled nursing facility. They've completed an MA-C program following the model curriculum approved by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing, and passed a medication aide certification exam approved by that council or another nationally or regionally recognized testing organization that offers exams for medication aides. And they've paid applicable fees.

The section names 11 grounds, and it doesn't close the list: grounds for discipline "shall include" them. They are substance abuse or dependency; client abandonment, neglect or abuse; fraud or deceit; boundary violations; performance of unsafe client care; performing acts beyond the range of authorized functions or beyond those tasks delegated under the section; misappropriation or misuse of property; obtaining money or property of a client, resident or other person by theft, fraud, misrepresentation or duress during employment; criminal conviction of a misdemeanor that directly relates to or affects the functions of a certified medication assistant, or conviction of any felony set out in rule; putting clients at risk of harm; and violating the privacy or failing to maintain the confidentiality of client or resident information. Against those the board has 3 kinds of response, and the statute opens that list with the same words. It can deny certification or recertification, suspend, revoke, place on probation, reprimand, limit, restrict or condition the certificate, or accept its voluntary surrender; it can refer criminal violations of the section to the appropriate law enforcement agency; and it can impose a civil penalty of no more than $100 per violation, a separate $100 from the one capping the fees. Discipline runs under the Idaho administrative procedure act, and the record of it is open to public inspection to the same extent as the record of a disciplinary proceeding against a nurse. That applies to any Idaho certified medication assistant the board has acted against.

Assist, once 4 things are true. Where permitted by law, and after the person has completed a board-approved training program, the rule lets unlicensed assistive personnel in care settings help patients who can't independently self-administer their medications, provided a licensed registered nurse has developed a plan of care and a licensed nurse has delegated the act. The rule's examples are open-ended and run to breaking a scored tablet, crushing a tablet, instilling eye, ear or nose drops, giving medication through a pre-mixed nebulizer inhaler or a gastric, non-nasogastric, tube, assisting with oral or topical medications, and insertion of suppositories.