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This bill provides for the certification of temporary nurse aides. Under the bill, the Commissioner of Health (commissioner) is to issue a nurse aide certification to an applicant who has applied to the Department of Health for certification as a nurse aide, in a manner determined by the commissioner, and who is a temporary nurse aide, if within 45 days following the end of the public health emergency declared in response to COVID-19: the temporary nurse aide successfully completed a training program and competency assessment authorized under a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) waiver due to COVID-19 which may have included an online training component and an online examination; the temporary nurse aide worked a minimum of 80 hours under the supervision of a licensed professional nurse who documented the adequate competency of the temporary nurse aide; the temporary nurse aide successfully completed the criminal history record background check required pursuant to section 2 of P.L.1997, c.100 (C.26:2H-83); and the temporary nurse aide successfully completed a State-approved nurse aide written examination in no more than three attempts to successfully complete the examination. The bill provides that temporary nurse aides who have not been certified as nurse aides are to be permitted to work as temporary nurse aides for no more than 90 days following the end of the public health emergency declared in response to COVID-19.

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Fred Madden (D)*,  Shirley Turner (D)*,  Declan O'Scanlon (R),  Steven Oroho (R), 

Substituted by A5353 (1R) (on 06/03/2021)