Authority: IC
16-28-1-11
Affected: IC 16-28
Sec. 10.
(a) A QMA
shall be certified by the Indiana state department of health.
(b) For initial certification as a QMA, the
individual must do the following:
(1) Complete
the requirements of this rule.
(2)
Submit to the testing entity an application approved by the Indiana state
department of health.
(3) Pass the
written competency test in three (3) or fewer attempts with a passing score of
at least eighty percent (80%).
(c) For recertification, at least thirty (30)
days before the expiration of the certificate, the individual must do the
following:
(1) Obtain a minimum of six (6)
hours per year of annual in-service education.
(2) Submit to the Indiana state department of
health a qualified medication aide record of annual in-service education on the
form approved by the Indiana state department of health.
(3) Submit to the Indiana state department of
health the appropriate fee.
The QMA is responsible for completing the in-service
education requirements, maintaining documentation of in-service education, and
submitting, or ensuring the submission of, the qualified medication aide record
of annual in-service education form and appropriate fee.
(d) If the recertification fees or
in-service education form, or both, required by subsection (c) is received by
the Indiana state department of health more than ninety (90) days after the
expiration of the QMA certification, the individual:
(1) is removed from the QMA registry;
and
(2) must be reinstated under
subsection (e) in order to work as a QMA.
(e) For reinstatement as a QMA following
removal from the QMA registry, the individual must do the following:
(1) Complete the requirements of this
rule.
(2) Submit to the testing
entity an application approved by the Indiana state department of
health.
(3) Pass the written
competency test in three (3) or fewer attempts with a passing score of at least
eighty percent (80%).
(f) Annual in-service education shall include
medication administration. If facility policy allows the QMA to perform such
functions in the facility, annual in-service education shall also include the
following:
(1) Medication administration via
G-tube/J-tube.
(2) Hemoccult
testing.
(3) Finger stick blood
glucose testing (specific to the glucose meter used).
(g) QMA certificates:
(1) are effective upon issue;
(2) and expire on March 31 of the next year.
The annual in-service education requirement period begins
each year on March 1 and concludes on the last day of February of the next
year. In the case of an initial certification, the annual in-service education
requirement period begins on the QMA certification effective date and concludes
on the last day of February of the next year. The in-service education
requirement period therefore ends one (1) month before the expiration of the
certification.
(h) The Indiana state department of health
shall maintain a registry of QMAs who have current certification.
