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A nurse's. The Vermont rule behind a Vermont medication aide job names two such decisions. A newly admitted resident gets no medications from a medication nursing assistant until the delegating nurse determines that the resident is stable, and then only according to facility policy. A medication ordered as needed waits on a registered nurse's assessment. Underneath both sits the supervision requirement itself, which the rule fixes by place: the supervising nurse is on-site, on the unit. The nurse who decides need not be that same nurse, since a PRN dose waits specifically on a registered nurse.

Yes, into the licensed nursing assistant credential underneath the designation, and it's the one route the board has no discretion over. Except as otherwise provided by law, the board shall issue a license to practice as a nursing assistant to an applicant who is a service member or a veteran, has received designation by the U.S. Armed Forces as a 68W Combat Medic Specialist or equivalent, and is certified as a National Registry Emergency Medical Technician. Compare the endorsement route directly above it, where the board may issue a license to someone licensed or registered in another U.S. jurisdiction who has met the practice requirements set by rule. One says shall and the other says may. A veteran here means a former service member discharged honorably, or generally under honorable conditions, from active duty no more than 2 years before applying, and that clock is the only expiry in the section.

The Department of Disabilities, Aging, and Independent Living approves it, though the rule leaves an equivalent open on both limbs. An applicant completes, within 2 years of application, a nursing assistant education program approved by that department, or its equivalent in another U.S. jurisdiction, or comes in as a student in an RN or LPN education program who has completed studies equivalent to it. A federal criminal background check sits between that and the examination. Then comes a competency examination approved by the same department, or an equivalent exam acceptable to the board. The department's examinations come back at the far end of a career gap. A licensee seeking to renew an expired or lapsed license after fewer than 5 years of absence from practice has to repeat and pass them, and one who doesn't pass repeats a nursing assistant education program and competency examination. That subsection is new: the 2025 act added it, effective July 1 of that year.