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40.325 Definition of "nurse aide" -- Veterans' nursing homes -- Office of Kentucky

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Veterans' Centers -- Administrative regulations -- Funding -- Contracts to hire
licensed nurses and nurse aides to provide long-term care.
(1)As used in this section, "nurse aide" means an individual who has successfully
completed the nurse aide training and competency evaluation program and may
include a nursing student, medication aide, or a person employed through a nursing
pool who provides nursing or nursing-related services to a resident in a nursing
facility, excluding:
(a)An individual who is a licensed health professional;
(b)A volunteer who provides the nursing or nursing-related services without
monetary compensation; or
(c)A person who is hired by the resident or family to sit with the resident and
who does not perform nursing or nursing-related services.
(2)There shall be established and maintained in the Commonwealth of Kentucky state
veterans' nursing homes to provide long-term care to veterans who are residents of
Kentucky.
(3)There is created the Office of Kentucky Veterans' Centers within the Office of the
Commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs. The office shall be headed by
an executive director appointed pursuant to KRS 12.050. The office shall operate
the Kentucky state veterans' centers and medical division. The Department of
Veterans' Affairs may promulgate any administrative regulations necessary to
operate the homes in compliance with applicable state and federal statutes and
regulations.
(4)The Department of Veterans' Affairs may seek federal and private funding for the
construction or renovation, and operation of Kentucky state veterans' nursing
homes.
(5)The executive director of the Office of Kentucky Veterans' Centers, with the
approval of the commissioner of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, may contract
to hire licensed nurses and nurse aides in order to provide needed long-term care of
veterans in residence at state veterans' nursing homes, and those contracts shall not
be subject to KRS 45A.550 to 45A.554 or 45A.690 to 45A.725.
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