(1) The board shall make a change in approval status when a school does not meet the requirements of the applicable statutes and rules to the satisfaction of the board. The board shall notify the school of a change in approval status and the time and manner in which the school must correct the deficiencies.

(2) Change in approval status may be given for a specific time period. The board may require a special report and/or repeat the site visit during the period of the change in approval status.

(3) The board may place a program on conditional approval when the board determines that an approved nursing education program is not in substantial compliance with the board rules for nursing education programs. The board will work with the governing academic institution to determine a mutually agreed upon time frame for the submission of an action plan to correct the identified program deficiencies.

(4) If the school does not correct the deficiencies within the time period and in the manner specified by the action plan, the board may require that the school stop admitting students until the deficiencies are corrected.

(5) The board shall remove the program from the list of approved programs and notify the applicable national accrediting body, NCSBN, and testing services that the program is no longer approved.

(6) Programs notified of a change in board approval status may request a hearing within 60 days, in accordance with the Montana Administrative Procedure Act and Title 37, chapter 1, part 3, MCA.

(7) Once a program corrects deficiencies, the board shall reinstate the program to conditional or approval status for a minimum of one year or until the board determines the program has achieved sufficient compliance with these rules.

(8) The board may not consider a program on conditional status for any type of program expansion.