155.3  Qualifications for licensure.
  The board shall have authority to issue licenses to qualified persons as nursing home administrators, and shall establish qualification criteria for such nursing home administrators. No license shall be issued to a person as a nursing home administrator unless:
  1.  The applicant is of sound mental health and physically able to perform the duties.
  2.  The applicant has satisfactorily completed a course of instruction and training prescribed by the board, which course shall be so designed as to content and so administered as to present sufficient knowledge of the needs properly to be served by nursing homes; knowledge of the laws governing the operation of nursing homes and the protection of the interests of patients therein; and knowledge of the elements of good nursing home administration; or has presented evidence satisfactory to the board of sufficient education, training, or experience in the foregoing fields to administer, supervise, and manage a nursing home.
  3.  The applicant has passed an examination administered by the board and designed to test for competence in the subject matter referred to in subsection 2 of this section.
[C71, 73, 75, §147.120; C77, 79, 81, §135E.3]
C93, §155.3