                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

ADVANCED CERTIFICATION; RENEWAL (§ 54.1-3025.1)

A. The Board shall develop and promulgate regulations to establish a career
advancement certification that will indicate enhanced competence in patient care
tasks and enable certified nurse aides to expand the scope of the
responsibilities and duties delegated to them. An advanced certificate shall be
awarded upon successful completion of the required educational and training
standards set by the Board. Each institution that desires to conduct programs to
provide training for such advanced certificates shall be approved by the Board
pursuant to &#xA7; 54.1-3005.

B. An advanced certificate issued to a certified nurse aide shall be renewed
biennially upon payment of any specified fee. The certified nurse aide shall
submit proof of compliance with any requirements of law and regulation
concerning competence as established by the Board.

HISTORY: 2001, c. 448.