Health Care Personnel Registry, Nurse Aide Registry, and License Verification
Requires the Agency to check the North Carolina Health Care Personnel Registry before hiring anyone and to record each check, bars hiring anyone with a substantiated Registry finding, requires home health aides to be listed on the Nurse Aide Registry, and requires every license, certification and registration to be verified at hire and before it expires.
About this policy
- Policy number
- NC-HH-HR-04
- Version
- 1.0
- Main rule
- G.S. 131E-256
- Library
- North Carolina home health · 57 policies
- Category
- Human resources
- Sections
- 17
In short
- We check the NC Health Care Personnel Registry before we hire anyone. We cannot hire someone with a substantiated finding.
- Home health aides must be listed on the NC Nurse Aide Registry before they care for patients.
- Your license or certification must be current every day you work. If it lapses, you come off the schedule until it is renewed.
- Tell the agency director before your next shift if anything happens to your license or registry listing.
What's inside
17 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- Terms of Reference
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Policy Statement (G.S. 131E-256; 10A NCAC 13J .1003(c))
- 5. Health Care Personnel Registry Check Before Hire
- 6. Nurse Aide Registry Listing for Home Health Aides
- 7. License and Certification Verification
- 8. Duty of Staff to Report
- 9. Contract Workers
- 10. Responsibilities
- 11. Records and Compliance Monitoring
- 12. Staff Training
- 13. References
- 14. Related Policies and Forms
- 15. Approval
- 16. Revision History
An inspector may ask
- Show me the Health Care Personnel Registry check for this employee. When was it done, and what was the confirmation number?
- Is this aide listed on the Nurse Aide I Registry?
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