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

Veterans' Centers -- Administrative regulations -- Funding -- Contracts to hire

licensed nurses and nurse aides to provide long-term care.

(1) As used in this sect ion, "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. Th e 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, w ith 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.