Pre-Licensure Requirements and Prerequisites

The Pre-Licensure courses are designed to assist persons holding a baccalaureate (or higher) degree to meet additional academic course requirements.

Nursing Home Administrator Licensure and Course Requirements (pdf)

Minnesota's educational requirements for nursing home licensure mandate that an administrator must have at least a baccalaureate degree and satisfactorily complete an approved course in each of the following areas of content:

• Organizational management
• Introductory accounting/managerial accounting
• Gerontology
• Long term care programs/services
• Human resource management
• Medical terminology/health-care and medical needs
• Health care law
• Information uses
• Regulatory management
• A practicum under the supervision of a licensed nursing home administrator

Since the Pre-licensure courses are targeted to meet the needs of non-traditional students who are taking coursework outside of the regular academic semester calendar, these courses are not listed in the regular University Course Catalogue. Students may enroll in the Pre-Licensure courses at any point in the year-long sequence. The course schedule is available on this web site and is updated twice annually.

For the sake of effective planning, it is critically important to note that two of the courses (Managerial Accounting and the Practicum) have a prerequisite. For Managerial Accounting, the prerequisite is successful completion of one of the following:

two quarters of introduction to accounting

or

one semester of introduction to accounting

The prerequisite for the Practicum is completion of at least three of the following in the Pre-Licensure sequence:

PubH 6535 - Healthcare Services Accounting
PubH 7580 - Organizational and HR Management in Long Term Care
PubH 7581 - Gerontology and Services for Long Term Care Residents
PubH 7587 and 7588 - Regulatory Management, Health Care Law, Information Uses

All of the courses in the Pre-Licensure sequence have been approved by the Minnesota Board of Licensure. However, some students may have taken similar courses elsewhere. If you have already taken coursework or you have work experience that may fulfill the requirements of specific content areas related to licensure, take a copy of your Study Plan to the Executive Director of the licensure board or mail your Study Plan to the Minnesota Board of Licensure for Nursing Home Administrators:

Randy Snyder, Executive Director
Minnesota State Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administration
2829 University Ave. S.E., Suite 440
Minneapolis, MN 55414

(612) 617-2117