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How to Start a Nurse Aide Training Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP)
- Application packet for approval of a nurse aide training program is a fillable form and available online: Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP) Provisional Application Form (PDF).
- An approved nurse aide training and competency evaluation program must be at least 75 clock hours in length. Training includes 16 hours of supervised practical training with a live person in a laboratory or other setting and curriculum instruction/skills totaling 75 hours. Location of or method of curriculum instruction and supervised practical training identified in application packet. A list of suggested equipment is available here: Nurse Aide Training Equipment (PDF)
- Select a curriculum from our list of approved Minnesota nurse aide training curriculums. See Minnesota-Approved Nurse Aide and Training Curriculum.
- Federal and state regulations and program requirements included in the Federal NATCEP Resource. Nurse aide training program applicants declare in initial application to read and implement Federal of NATCEP Resource requirements. Federal Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program Resource (PDF)
- See Frequently Asked Questions about Nurse Aide Training and Competency Evaluation Program (PDF).
- Qualifications for staff submitted with application for approval.
- For information and questions, email: Health.nar.coord@state.mn.us
Instructor qualifications:
- Minnesota RN with a minimum of two years of licensed nursing experience in the US as evidenced by screen shot from Minnesota Board of Nursing website.
- At least one year in the provision of long term care facility services in the US as evidenced by licensed nursing experience resume. Examples of long term care facility services are employment in a nursing home or assisted living facility. Home health experience providing care in private homes only is not included.
- Total licensed nursing experience can be as a LPN but must currently be a RN. Licensed nursing experience does not include nurse aide.
- Train the Trainer certificate if required by chosen curriculum as identified in Approved Minnesota Nurse Aide and Training Curriculum.
- Train the Trainer certificates are specific to a given curriculum, they are not interchangeable.
NATCEPs operated by a nursing home cannot have had an extended or partial extended survey, operated with a waiver of the 8 hour-per-day registered nurse requirement, been assessed a civil money penalty, or had a denial of payment enforced within past two (2) years. A Nurse Aide Training Competency Evaluation Program (NATCEP) Waiver Request (PDF). may be an option. Email Health.nar.coord@state.mn.us for more information.
Federal law allows up to 90 days for approval of a completed application.