A teaching hospital may fill out an application form, attach relevant documents and materials, and apply to the central competent authority for being qualified as a training hospital; upon approval, a training hospital certificate shall be issued, which will be valid for four years.
The central competent authority shall regularly announce and publish the latest list of training hospitals, the period of validity and other related matters.
The competent authority may visit the training hospital for inspection and guidance from time to time.

A training hospital shall establish a dedicated training unit for nurse practitioners to handle the following matters:
1. Regular review of nurse practitioner training plan, and its implementation and effectiveness.
2. Arrangement, implementation and review of training courses and teachers.
3. Planning for the guidance, counseling and management of professional registered nurses receiving nurse practitioner training.
4. Maintenance and supervision of training quality.
5. Participation in formulation of pre-established medical procedures.
6. Planning and review of labor rights and interests during the training.
The members of the dedicated training unit in the preceding Paragraph shall be composed of directors of the nursing and medical departments, and the deputy superintendent or any staff with equivalent or superior levels shall be the coordinator, while the directors of the nursing and medical departments shall be deputy coordinators.
The dedicated training unit may be established in combination with the nurse practitioner working group stipulated in Article 4 of the Regulations Governing Nurse Practitioners Carrying out Medical Activities under the Supervision of a Physician.

The training hospital shall comply with the following items:
1. Prepare a training plan before implementing the training, which shall be submitted electronically to the information platform established or designated by the central competent authority.
2. The list of professional registered nurses receiving nurse practitioner training shall be recorded in the register and sent to the corresponding municipal and county (city) competent authority for reference.
3. Regularly hold meetings in the nurse practitioner training unit.
4. Regularly review and evaluate teaching plans and training results.
5. Other matters related to the training of nurse practitioners.
The content of registration stated in Subparagraph 2 of the preceding Paragraph includes ID number, professional registered nurse certificate number, specialty of the nurse practitioner training, training start and end dates, and seniority, etc.

The central competent authority may revoke the qualifications of a training hospital if it falls into any of the following circumstances:
1.The documents and information of the application for certification are false or untrue.
2.Evading, impeding, or refusing any inspection or guidance by the competent authority based on Paragraph 3 of Article 4;
3.The qualification to serve as a training hospital is not met;
4.Failing to perform works in accordance with the pre-established medical procedures stipulated in the Regulations Governing Nurse Practitioners Carrying out Medical Activities under the Supervision of a Physician, and further failing to make improvement within a specified time limit after being notified by the competent authority;
5.Violating the Regulations or other relevant regulations for nurse practitioners, and failing to make improvement within a specified time limit after being notified by the competent authority.

For training hospitals whose certification is been revoked or canceled by the central competent authority, the application for new certification will not be accepted within one year.
In the event of a training hospital being disqualified, the training courses it has implemented shall be immediately suspended, and the referral plan for its trainees shall be submitted to the central competent authority; which may be implemented only after being approved.
If the training referral plan stated in the preceding Paragraph is implemented without proper submission and approval, or failing to be implemented, and thereby resulting in damage to the rights and interests of the trainees, the application from the disqualified training hospital will not be accepted within three years from the date of revocation or cancellation of the certification.

Training courses of training hospitals (hereinafter referred to as training courses) include academic training and clinical training; the content and number of training courses are specified in the table of the Appendix.

• Appendix　Training Courses.pdf

The training period of a training course set forth in the preceding article shall be at least six months and at most twelve months. Upon completion of the training course, the training hospital may carry out supplementary clinical training where it deems necessary; the supplementary clinical training shall be carried out within eighteen months from the date of completion of the training course.
Supplementary clinical training shall be conducted by the original training hospital; the qualifications of the trainers and the ratio of trainers to trainees are stipulated in the table of the Appendix.

• Appendix　Training Courses.pdf