NRS 449.2419
Duties of health care facility that employs or allows person to engage in practice of surgical technology.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.24195, a health care facility that employs or otherwise allows a person to engage in the practice of surgical technology at the health care facility shall:

1.

Ensure that each such person, including, without limitation, a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185, successfully completes not less than 15 hours annually of continuing education concerning the practice of surgical technology; and

2.

Maintain records showing that the health care facility is in compliance with this section and NRS 449.24185, including, without limitation:

(a)

Records of continuing education completed by surgical technologists;

(b)

Records demonstrating that a surgical technologist employed by the health care facility possesses the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185; and

(c)

If the health care facility employs a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185 pursuant to subsection 3 of that section, records of the efforts of the health care facility to search for a sufficient number of surgical technologists who possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of that section before employing the person.

Source: Section 449.2419 — Duties of health care facility that employs or allows person to engage in practice of surgical technology., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-449.­html#NRS449Sec2419.

Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

§ 449.2419’s source at nv​.us