California Code of Regulations › Title 17 - Public Health › Division 1 - State Department of Health Services › Chapter 5 - Sanitation (Environmental) › Subchapter 4.5 - Radiologic Technology › Group 1 - Administration › Article 1 - Definitions › Section 30400 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) As used in this
						subchapter:
(1) "Act" means the Radiologic
						Technology Act as defined in section
						27 of
						the Health and Safety Code.
(2)
						"Affiliated clinical site" means a clinical site approved by the Department pursuant
						to sections 30412 or
						30414 in which students perform
						radiologic technology for purposes of establishing eligibility to obtain either a
						certificate issued pursuant to sections
						30440 or
						30455.1, or a limited permit issued
						pursuant to sections
						30444 or
						30451.
(3) "Affiliation agreement" means a formal,
						written understanding between an approved school and a clinical site, containing the
						information required pursuant to section
						30415.
(4) "Approved continuing education credit" means
						50 to 60 minutes of instruction received in subjects related to the application of
						X-ray to the human body and accepted for purposes of credentialing, assigning
						professional status, or certification by the:
(A)
						American Registry of Radiologic Technologists;
(B) Medical Board of California;
(C) Osteopathic Medical Board of
						California;
(D) California Board of
						Chiropractic Examiners;
(E) Board of
						Podiatric Medicine; or
(F) Board of
						Dental Examiners.
(5)
						"Approved school" means a radiologic technology certification school, limited permit
						X-ray technician school, or a radiologic technologist fluoroscopy permit
						school.
(6) "Approval to operate" or
						"approval" means authorization granted pursuant to sections
						30412 or
						30427.2 to offer a course of
						instruction in radiologic technology meeting the requirements of this subchapter, as
						well as the written document issued to an entity signifying its approval to
						operate.
(7) "Approved to operate" or
						"approved" means that an entity has received authorization pursuant to sections
						30412 or
						30427.2 to offer a course of
						instruction in radiologic technology meeting the requirements of this
						subchapter.
(8) "Certified diagnostic
						radiologic technologist" means a CRT who holds a current and valid diagnostic
						radiologic technology certificate issued pursuant to section
						30440.
(9) "Certified radiologic technologist," for
						purposes of this subchapter, means any person other than a licentiate of the healing
						arts performing radiologic technology who possesses a certificate issued pursuant to
						section 30440.
(10) "Certified supervisor and operator," for
						purposes of this subchapter, means a licentiate of the healing arts who possesses,
						as issued pursuant to section
						30466, a current and valid:
(A) Radiology supervisor and operator
						certificate;
(B) Radiography supervisor
						and operator permit;
(C) Fluoroscopy
						supervisor and operator permit;
(D)
						Dermatology supervisor and operator permit; or
(E) X-ray bone densitometry supervisor and
						operator permit.
(11)
						"Certified therapeutic radiologic technologist" means a CRT who holds a current and
						valid therapeutic radiologic technology certificate issued pursuant to section
						30440.
(12) "Clinical coordinator" means that individual
						who is responsible for those items specified in section
						30419(b) and who meets
						the requirements of section
						30418.
(13) "Clinical site" means a hospital, outpatient
						department, clinic, radiology practice, an office of a physician and surgeon,
						podiatrist or chiropractor, or any other place or building in which a person
						conducts radiologic technology.
(14)
						"Credentialing examination pass rate" (CEPR) means the number of examinations
						administered to a school's graduates who, on the first attempt, pass a required
						certification or permitting examination, compared with the total number of
						examinations administered to a school's graduates then taking the required
						examinations. For limited permit X-ray technician schools, CEPR is determined for
						each limited permit category.
(15) "CRT"
						means a certified radiologic technologist.
(16) "Department" means the California Department
						of Public Health.
(17) "DEXA" means dual
						energy X-ray absorptiometry.
(18)
						"Diagnostic radiologic technology" means the application of X-rays on human beings
						for diagnostic purposes.
(19) "Digital
						radiography" means radiography wherein the image is visualized through electronic
						means (e.g., computed radiography, direct digital radiography, direct image capture,
						scanned projection radiography) but does not include either fluoroscopy or the
						digitization of a radiograph or film.
(20) "Direct oversight" means that a qualified
						practitioner is physically present to observe, and to correct as needed, the
						performance of a student who is performing the radiographic procedure.
(21) "Dual Energy X-ray Absorptiometry" means a
						radiologic examination of all or part of the skeleton or body, utilizing X-rays from
						an X-ray source which is mechanically joined to a detector for scanning all or part
						of the skeleton or body under computer control, to measure bone density or total and
						regional whole body fat and lean tissue mass.
(22) "Educational program" means a planned
						sequence composed of a single course or module, or a set of related courses or
						modules, that is designed to provide the education, training, skills, and experience
						leading to the award of a certificate or diploma issued pursuant to section
						30437.
(23) "Film-screen radiography" means radiography
						in which the image is visualized through chemical processing (e.g., fluorescent
						screens, X-ray film, radiographic film), but does not include digitization of a
						radiograph or film.
(24) "Fluoroscopy"
						means a technique for obtaining, continuously or periodically, a sequence of X-ray
						patterns and presenting them directly, or through a transfer and optional
						processing, simultaneously and continuously as visible images.
(25) "Indirect oversight" means that a qualified
						practitioner is physically present adjacent to the room or location where the
						student is performing the radiographic procedure.
(26) "Lead supervising licentiate" means that
						supervising licentiate, designated by the clinical site, who ensures compliance with
						both section 30417 and the clinical site's
						affiliation agreement.
(27) "Lead
						training instructor" means that individual who is responsible for those items
						specified in section
						30419(d), and who
						meets the requirements of section
						30418.
(28) "Licentiate of the healing arts," for
						purposes of this subchapter, means any licensed physician and surgeon, licensed
						podiatrist, or licensed chiropractor.
(29) "Limited permit," for purposes of this
						subchapter, means authorization for the holder to conduct radiologic technology
						limited to the permit's scope as specified in section
						30443, and subject to the restrictions
						contained in section
						30447.
(30) "Limited permit X-ray technician" means an
						individual who holds a current and valid limited permit issued pursuant to section
						30444.
(31) "Limited permit X-ray technician school"
						means an entity approved pursuant to section
						30412 that provides to individuals an
						educational program designed to establish eligibility for a limited permit in any
						category specified in section
						30442.
(32) "Limited podiatric radiography educational
						program," means an entity approved pursuant to section
						30427.2 that provides to individuals an
						educational program designed to establish eligibility for a limited permit in
						podiatric radiography specified in section
						30443.
(33) "LPREP" means limited podiatric radiography
						educational program.
(34) "Mammogram"
						means an X-ray image of the human breast.
(35) "Mammography" means the procedure for
						creating a mammogram.
(36) "Mammographic
						examination" means the performance of mammography on a human being.
(37) "Mammographic radiologic technology" means
						the performance of radiologic technology for purposes of obtaining a
						mammogram.
(38) "Outside of Department
						jurisdiction" means any location within the State that is not subject to the laws
						and regulations of the Department.
(39)
						"Podiatric Office" means the physical location of the podiatrist's place of private
						practice, or if the approved podiatrist is part of a podiatric medical group, that
						group's physical place of private practice. Podiatric office does not include an
						office of a medical group that includes a podiatrist, an office within a hospital of
						a podiatrist who provides services to the hospital patients, or a mobile
						office.
(40) "Program director" means
						that individual who is responsible for those items specified in section
						30419(a), and who
						meets the requirements of section
						30418.
(41) "Qualified practitioner" means any certified
						supervisor and operator, CRT or XT acting within the scope of the individual's
						certificate or permit.
(42)
						"Radiography" means the procedure for creating an X-ray image, and includes one or
						more of the following:
(A) Positioning the
						patient;
(B) Selecting exposure factors;
						or
(C) Exposing the patient and the
						recording medium to X-rays.
(43) "Radiologic technology" means the application
						of X-rays on human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes.
(44) "Radiologic technology certification school"
						means an entity approved pursuant to section
						30412 that provides to individuals an
						educational program designed to establish eligibility for a certificate in:
(A) Diagnostic Radiologic Technology issued
						pursuant to section
						30440; or
(B) Therapeutic Radiologic Technology issued
						pursuant to section
						30440.
(45) "Radiologic technologist fluoroscopy permit
						school" means an entity approved pursuant to section
						30412 that provides to individuals an
						educational program designed to establish eligibility for a radiologic technologist
						fluoroscopy permit issued pursuant to section
						30451.
(46) "Supervising licentiate" means a certified
						supervisor and operator who is responsible for supervision of X-ray machine use at a
						clinical site.
(47) "Supervision" means
						responsibility for, and control of, quality, radiation safety, and technical aspects
						of all X-ray examinations and procedures.
(48) "Therapeutic radiologic technology" means the
						performance of radiologic technology for therapeutic purposes.
(49) "X-ray bone densitometry" means a radiologic
						examination of all or part of the skeleton, utilizing X-rays from an X-ray source
						which is mechanically joined to a detector for scanning all or part of the skeleton
						under computer control.