Sec 32-2815. Additional board duties; bone densitometry certification; nuclear medicine; continuing education

A. The board shall adopt rules regarding the certification of practical technologists in bone densitometry to allow the certificate holder to apply ionizing radiation to a person's extremities through the use of a bone densitometry machine. The rules shall prescribe:

1. The minimum education and training qualifications for certification. The qualifications prescribed by the board shall allow a person who does not meet the education and training requirements of a radiologic technologist or a practical technologist in radiology to obtain a certificate as a practical technologist in bone densitometry.

2. The application and renewal fees.

3. The definition of a practical technologist in bone densitometry.

B. Subsection A does not prohibit a radiologic technologist or a practical technologist from operating a bone densitometry machine.

C. Beginning on January 1, 2004, a person who wishes to practice as a nuclear medicine technologist must apply to the board for certification as prescribed by the board by rule. The board shall adopt rules to establish minimum educational and training requirements for nuclear medicine technologists. For the purposes of this subsection, "nuclear medicine technologist" means a person who uses radiopharmaceutical agents on humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.

D. The board shall adopt rules to prescribe the following minimum continuing education requirements for the renewal of the following certificates:

1. Practical technologist in podiatry, two hours every two years.

2. Practical technologist in radiology, six hours every two years.

3. Practical technologist in bone densitometry, one hour every two years.

4. Unlimited practical technologist in radiology, twenty-four hours every two years.

5. Nuclear medicine technologist, twenty-four hours every two years.

E. Beginning on August 1, 2004, the board may require an applicant for renewal to document compliance with the appropriate continuing education requirements of subsection D.