21 NCAC 04B .0806. COURSE COMPLETION REPORTING

(a)  Course sponsors must prepare and submit to the Board reports verifying completion of each continuing education course conducted.  Sponsors must submit these reports to the Board in a manner that will assure receipt by the Board within thirty calendar days following the course, but in no case later than May 15 for courses conducted prior to that date. Reports shall include the following:

(1)           Official course name;

(2)           Sponsor or coordinator name, mailing address, and telephone number;

(3)           Coordinator signature certifying that the information is correct;

(4)           Name, address, and North Carolina license number of each licensee who satisfactorily completes the course and who desires continuing education credit for the course;

(5)           Physical location where course was conducted;

(6)           Date(s), starting and ending times of course; and

(7)           Number of credit hours.

(b)  At the request of the Board, course sponsors must provide licensees enrolled in each continuing education course an opportunity to complete an evaluation of the course upon completion of the course.

(c)  Course sponsors shall provide each licensee who satisfactorily completes an approved continuing education course a course completion certificate.  Sponsors must provide the certificates to licensees within thirty calendar days following the course, but in no case later than May 15 for any course completed prior to that date.  The certificate shall be retained by the licensee as secondary proof of having completed the course.  Course completion certificates shall include the following:

(1)           Official course name;

(2)           Name of licensee who satisfactorily completes the course;

(3)           Date(s) of attendance;

(4)           Number of credit hours; and

(5)           Coordinator signature certifying that the information is correct.

(d)  When a licensee in attendance at a continuing education course does not comply with the student participation standards, the course sponsor shall advise the Board of this matter in writing at the time reports verifying completion of continuing education for the course are submitted.  A sponsor who determines that a licensee failed to comply with either the Board's attendance or student participation standards shall not provide the licensee with a course completion certificate nor shall the sponsor include the licensee's name on the reports verifying completion of continuing education.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 85B-4(e1);

Temporary Adoption Eff. January 1, 2000;

Eff. April 1, 2001;

Amended Eff. May 1, 2006.