Request to Amend 18VAC90-26-20. Establishing and maintaining a nurse aide education program

B.2. Impose no fee for any portion of the program on any nurse aide student who, on the date on which the student begins the program, is either employed or has an offer of employment from a nursing facility.

• This Administrative Code implies that tuition is free for anyone working in a nursing home in any capacity. 
• Are colleges and schools to verify employment prior to enrollment? How does that process work?
• How do colleges and programs get tuition reimbursed if we find out they are employed at a nursing facility and didn’t disclose?

There are many personal interpretations of the code to include “this only applies to Nursing Facilities that have an education program”. Which may be the case, but it is not written as such.  Further clarification and definition are needed on the code so all programs can maintain their status of being in good standing with the BON.