Compilation of Rules and Regulations of the State of Georgia › Department 360 - RULES OF GEORGIA COMPOSITE MEDICAL BOARD › Chapter 360-35 - LASERS › Rule 360-35-.01 - Definitions

Current through Rules and Regulations filed through June 27, 2024
For purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions
				apply:
(1) "Assistant Laser
			 Practitioner" means a person who is licensed by the Board to practice as a
			 cosmetic laser practitioner under the on-site supervision of a senior laser
			 practitioner or physician.
(2)
			 "Board" means the Georgia Composite Medical Board.
(3) "Continuing medical education (CME)
			 educator" or "continuing education (CE) educator" means an individual who
			 teaches courses approved by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
			 Education (ACCME).
(4) "Cosmetic
			 laser practitioner" means a person licensed by the Board to provide cosmetic
			 laser services and whose license is in good standing.
(5) "Cosmetic laser services" means
			 nonablative elective cosmetic light based skin care, photo rejuvenation, or
			 hair removal using lasers or pulsed light devices approved by the United States
			 Food and Drug Administration for noninvasive procedures.
(6) "Cosmetologist" means a person who is
			 registered to practice the occupation of cosmetologist by the State Board of
			 Cosmetology and Barbers pursuant to Chapter 10, Title 43 of the
			 O.C.G.A.
(7) "Direct supervision"
			 means the supervising physician (MD/DO) is physically present on the premises
			 and immediately available to lend medical assistance if needed.
(8) "Esthetician" means a person who is
			 registered to engage in the occupation of an esthetician by the State Board of
			 Cosmetology and Barbers pursuant to Chapter 10, Title 43 of the
			 O.C.G.A.
(9) "Facility" means any
			 location, place, area, structure, office, institution, or business or a part
			 thereof in which is performed or provided cosmetic laser services regardless of
			 whether a fee is charged for such services.
(10) "Lasers" means light-based devices that
			 are prescription devices, the sale of which are regulated by the U.S. Food and
			 Drug Administration, (FDA), that can be sold only to licensed practitioners
			 with prescriptive authority. It does not include devices which are not light
			 based such as radio frequency devices, ultrasound devices, thermal devices and
			 lasers not regulated by the FDA.
(11) "Medical Practitioner" means a nurse,
			 physician assistant or physician.
(12) "Nurse" means a person who is licensed
			 to practice as a registered professional nurse or who is authorized by the
			 Georgia Board of Nursing to engage in advanced nursing practice pursuant to
			 Article 1, Chapter 26, Title 43 of the O.C.G.A.
(13) "Offices" shall mean a facility offering
			 cosmetic laser services which serves as the principal place of practice at
			 which a physician regularly sees patients for the general and usual care
			 rendered and administered by a physician.
(14) "Physician" means one who is licensed by
			 the Board to practice medicine.
(15) "Physician Assistant" means a person who
			 is licensed by the Board as a physician assistant.
(16) "Senior Laser Practitioner" means a
			 physician assistant or a nurse who has been licensed to practice the occupation
			 of a cosmetic laser practitioner and who practices pursuant to the protocols of
			 a consulting physician.
O.C.G.A.
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										43-34-5,  43-34-242,  43-34-244,  43-34-248,  43-34-249.1.