Arkansas Administrative Code › Agency 007 - ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH › Division 14 - Radiation Control and Emergency Management › Rule 007.14.10-001 - Revised Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Radiologic Technology Licensure

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 6, June, 2024
SECTION I.
AUTHORITY
These Rules and Regulations pertaining to Radiologic Technology
				Licensure are duly adopted and promulgated by the Arkansas State Board of
				Health pursuant to the authority expressly conferred by the Laws of the State
				of Arkansas including, without limitation, Act 1071 of 1999, as amended, (Ark.
				Code Ann.
				17-106-101
				-111) and Act 96 of 1913 (Ark. Code Ann.
20-7-101
et seq).
SECTION II.
PURPOSE
These Rules and Regulations are adopted for the purpose of
				regulating and licensing persons administering ionizing radiation to human
				beings to help keep the radiation dose to patients as low as reasonably
				achievable.
SECTION III.
DEFINITIONS
A. 'Act' means Act
			 1071 of 1999, as amended (Ark. Code Ann. §
									17-106-111
			 );
B. ' ACRRT' means the American
			 Chiropractic Registry of Radiologic Technologists;
C. 'Administering Ionizing Radiation' means
			 the application of a prescribed dose of ionizing radiation to the human body
			 for the purposes of diagnosis or treatment. Several factors determine the dose
			 received by the patient and these include, but are not limited to: the
			 positioning of the patient in a radiation field, the exposure to or
			 introduction of ionizing radiation, and the final image production. Each of
			 these factors are prime determinates in the total dose received by the
			 patient;
D. 'Advanced practice
			 nursing' means the delivery of health care services for compensation by
			 professional nurses who have gained additional knowledge and skills through
			 successful completion of an organized program of nursing education that
			 certifies nurses for advanced practice roles as advanced nurse practitioners,
			 certified nurse anesthetists, certified nurse midwives, and clinical nurse
			 specialists.
E. ' ARRT' means the
			 American Registry of Radiologic Technologists;
F. ' ASCP' means the American Society of
			 Clinical Pathologists;
G. 'Board'
			 means the Arkansas State Board of Health;
H. 'Category' means a specific area of
			 radiologic sciences, for which there is an identified license and licensing
			 requirements;
I. 'CCF, means
			 Cardiovascular Credentialing International;
J. 'Committee' means the Medical Ionizing
			 Radiation Licensure Committee;
K.
			 'Consumer' means a person who is a resident of the state of Arkansas and who is
			 not a Licensed Practitioner or Radiologic Technologist or Licensed Technologist
			 or Limited Licensed Technologist under the Act;
L. 'Continuing Education Hour' means a period
			 of instruction at least fifty to sixty minutes in length;
M. 'Contrast Media' means material
			 intentionally administered to the human body to better define a part or parts
			 radiographically;
N. 'Department'
			 means the Arkansas Department of Health;
O. 'Direct Supervision of Students' means
			 responsibility for, and control of,
radiation safety, protection, and technical aspects of the
				application of ionizing radiation to human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic
				purposes, with the parameters that are outlined by educational accreditation
				agencies that are recognized by the Board;
P. 'Fluoroscopy' means a radiological
			 examination that uses a fluorescent screen or image intensifier on which the
			 internal structure of the human body may be continuously viewed by transmission
			 of x-rays through the body;
Q.
			 'Formal Education' means education obtained through an approved United States
			 Department of Education Institution;
R. 'Formal Examination' means an examination
			 or evaluation specific to a profession which tests the knowledge base in all
			 three domains of learning: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor;
S. 'Ionizing Radiation' means gamma rays,
			 x-rays, alpha and beta particles, high speed electrons, protons, neutrons, and
			 other nuclear particles;
T.
			 'JRCERT' means the Joint Review Committee for Education in Radiologic
			 Technology;
U. 'Lapsed Licensee'
			 means a licensee who has let his/her Licensed Technologist License or Limited
			 Licensed Technologist License, Radiologic Technologist License, Radiation
			 Therapy Technologist License, or Nuclear Medicine Technologist License expire
			 for more than five years;
V.
			 'License' means a certificate issued by the Committee authorizing the licensee
			 to use radioactive materials or medical equipment emitting or detecting
			 ionizing radiation for human diagnostic or therapeutic purposes in accordance
			 with these regulations;
W.
			 'Licensed Practitioner' means a person licensed to practice medicine,
			 dentistry, podiatric medicine, chiropractic, osteopathy or optometry in this
			 state;
X. 'Licensed Radiologic
			 Technologist' means a person who holds a national registry with the ARRT,
			 ACRRT, NMTCB, and/or ASCP, and who is licensed in the State of
			 Arkansas;
Y. 'Licensed
			 Technologist' means a person other than a Licensed Practitioner, who is
			 grandfathered under the Act and can perform specific radiologic procedures and
			 exams identified by a specific license and who administers radioactive
			 substances or uses medical equipment emitting or detecting ionizing radiation
			 for human diagnostic or therapeutic purposes while under the supervision of a
			 Licensed Practitioner;
Z. 'Limited
			 License' means an authorization to perform radiologic procedures under the
			 supervision of a Licensed Practitioner and are limited to specific parts of the
			 human body, specific procedures, or both, specifically of the chest and
			 skeletal structures excluding fluoroscopy and contrast studies;
AA. 'Limited Licensed Technologist' means a
			 person, other than a Licensed
Practitioner, Radiologic Technologist, or Licensed
				Technologist, while under the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner and
				operates medical equipment emitting ionizing radiation for diagnostic purposes
				on human beings that are limited to specific body parts, and who has
				successfully passed a limited scope examination deemed appropriate by the
				Board;
BB. 'Medical
			 Dosimetrist' means a person who is certified or eligible for certification by
			 the Medical Dosimetry Certification Board;
CC. 'NMTCB' means Nuclear Medicine Technology
			 Certification Board;
DD. 'Nuclear
			 Medicine Technologist' means a person, other than a Licensed
Practitioner, who performs therapeutic, in vivo, imaging,
				procedures, prepares radiopharmaceuticals, and administers diagnostic doses of
				radiopharmaceuticals to human beings while under supervision of a Licensed
				Practitioner who is licensed as required to possess and use radioactive
				materials;
EE. 'PET/CT
			 License' means an authorization to perform radiologic procedures under the
			 supervision of a Licensed Practitioner that is limited to radiologic procedures
			 performed for PET/CT procedures;
FF. 'PET/CT Technologist' means a person
			 other than a Licensed Practitioner, who has specific qualifications, education,
			 certification and responsibilities as recognized by the Committee;
GG. 'Radiation Health/Medical Physicist'
			 means a person who is certified or eligible for certification in radiologic
			 physics by the American Board of Radiology, the American Board of
			 Health/Medical Physics or the American Board of Science in Nuclear
			 Medicine;
HH. 'Radiation
			 Practitioner' means a Licensed Practitioner that has completed a residency in
			 radiology, nuclear medicine, or radiation oncology, and is certified by the
			 American Board of Radiology, the American Osteopathic Board of Radiology, the
			 American Board of Nuclear Medicine, or its equivalent;
II. 'Radiation Therapist' means a person,
			 other than a Licensed Practitioner or
Nuclear Medicine Technologist, who applies radiation to humans
				for therapeutic purposes under the supervision of a Licensed
				Practitioner;
JJ.
			 'Radiographer' means a person other than a Licensed Practitioner, who uses
			 medical equipment emitting ionizing radiation for human diagnostic purposes
			 under the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner and holds a national
			 certification obtained through education and examination, licensed under the
			 Act;
KK. 'Radiography' means the
			 practice of the theory and technical aspects of the use of x-rays which are
			 used in the diagnosis and treatment of disease;
LL. 'Radiologic Technologist' means a person
			 other than a Licensed Practitioner, who is identified by category and who
			 administers radioactive substances or uses medical equipment emitting or
			 detecting ionizing radiation for human diagnostic or therapeutic purposes under
			 the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner, and holds a national certification
			 obtained through education and examination, licensed under the Act;
MM. 'Radiologic Technology' is the science of
			 using a radioactive substance or medical equipment emitting or detecting
			 ionizing radiation of humans for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes;
NN. 'Radiologic Technology Student' means an
			 individual currently enrolled in and attending a school of radiologic
			 technology, radiation therapy, or nuclear medicine with recognized educational
			 accreditation who uses radioactive material on or applies ionizing radiation to
			 a human being while under the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner or a
			 Licensed Radiologic Technologist;
OO. 'RCIS' means Registered Cardiovascular
			 Invasive Specialist;
PP. 'RCIS
			 License' means an authorization to perform radiologic procedures under the
			 supervision of a Licensed Practitioner that are limited to fluoroscopic
			 radiologic procedures performed for cardiovascular interventional
			 procedures;
QQ. 'RCIS Technologist'
			 means a person other than a Licensed Practitioner,
Radiologic Technologist, or Licensed Technologist, while under
				the supervision of a Licensed Practitioner and operates medical equipment
				emitting ionizing radiation for fluoroscopic cardiovascular interventional
				radiologic purposes on human beings that arejimited to specific body parts and
				only for cardiovascular interventional procedures, who has successfully
				completed educational requirements and passed an examination deemed appropriate
				by the Committee;
RR.
			 'Reciprocity' means the Board may accept an applicant's current certificate,
			 registration, or license as a Licensed Technologist, Limited Licensed
			 Technologist, or Radiologic Technologist issued by another state, provided that
			 the standards in the other state require at least six hours of continuing
			 education a year and the examination of the other state meets or exceeds the
			 minimum standards and content of the examination approved by the Arkansas State
			 Board of Health;
SS. 'Retired'
			 means a license holder who notifies the Department in writing that the
			 individual will cease the practice of Radiologic Technology;
TT. 'Scaled Score' means a score that is
			 consistent from exam to exam despite differences in difficulty that may be
			 present among the exams. A scaled score takes into account any differences in
			 exam difficulty. A scaled score represents the same level of performance for
			 all exams.
UU. 'Skeletal
			 Structures' means extremities, skull, sinuses, spine, ankle, and foot of the
			 human body;
VV. 'Suspended
			 licensee' means a license holder who after sixty days of expiration date,
			 failed to pay the renewal fee and/or provide documentation of six hours of
			 continuing education credits;
WW.
			 'Temporary License' means a certificate issued by the Board, authorizing the
			 applicant to use radioactive materials or medical equipment emitting or
			 detecting ionizing radiation for human diagnostic or therapeutic purposes, when
			 licensure or relicensure is pending before the Board and when the issuance may
			 be justified by special circumstances as determined by the
			 Board.