Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 201 - GENERAL GOVERNMENT CABINET › Chapter 46 - Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy › Section 201 KAR 46:035 - Practice standards, scopes of practice, and ethical standards

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO: 311B.080
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				311B.050(2) requires the
				Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to promulgate
				administrative regulations to administer and enforce KRS Chapter 311B.
				KRS
				311B.080 requires the board to recognize and
				enforce national practice standards, scopes of practice, and ethical standards.
				This administrative regulation establishes uniform standards for the licensure
				of individuals who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy for diagnostic
				and therapeutic purposes while under the supervision of a licensed practitioner
				of the healing arts.
Section 1.
			 Applicability. A licensee shall only perform medical imaging or radiation
			 therapy for diagnostic medical imaging or therapeutic purposes while under the
			 direct or indirect supervision as specified by a licensee's practice standards,
			 by a licensee's scope of practice, or in the ACR-AAPM Technical Standard for
			 the Management of the Use of Radiation in Fluoro-scopic Procedures as listed in
			 Section 3 of this administrative regulation.
Section 2. If a licensee's practice
			 standards, a licensee's scope of practice, or the ACR-AAPM Technical Standard
			 for the Management of the Use of Radiation in Fluoroscopic Procedures fails to
			 specify who may provide direct or indirect supervision, a licensee shall only
			 perform medical imaging or radiation therapy for diagnostic medical imaging or
			 therapeutic purposes while under the direct or indirect supervision of a
			 licensed practitioner of the healing arts.
Section 3. Practice Standards. A licensee
			 shall perform according to practice standards of the discipline for which the
			 licensee holds a credential, as established by the American Society of
			 Radiologic Technologists (ASRT), the American College of Radiology (ACR), the
			 American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), and the Society of
			 Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and incorporated by reference.
			 These standards include the:
(1) The ASRT
			 Practice Standards for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy -
			 Radiography;
(2) Nuclear Medicine
			 Technologist Scope of Practice and Performance Standards;
(3) Positron Emission Tomography (PET)
			 Technologist Scope of Practice and Performance Standards;
(4) Scope of Practice for the Nuclear
			 Medicine Advanced Associate;
(5)
			 The ASRT Practice Standards for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy -
			 Radiation Therapy;
(6) The ASRT
			 Practice Standards for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy - Bone
			 Den-sitometry;
(7) The ASRT
			 Practice Standards for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy -
			 Cardiac-Interventional and Vascular-Interventional Technology;
(8) The ASRT Practice Standards for Medical
			 Imaging and Radiation Therapy - Computed Tomography;
(9) The ASRT Practice Standards for Medical
			 Imaging and Radiation Therapy - Limited X-ray Machine Operator;
(10) The ASRT Practice Standards for Medical
			 Imaging and Radiation Therapy - Mammog-raphy;
(11) The ASRT Practice Standards for Medical
			 Imaging and Radiation Therapy - Radiologist Assistant;
(12) ACR ASRT Joint-Policy
			 Statement-Radiologist Assistant: Roles and Responsibilities;
(13) ACR-AAPM Technical Standard for
			 Management of the Use of Radiation in Fluoro-scopic Procedures;
(14) The American Registry of Radiologic
			 Technologists' Code of Ethics; and
(15) The Nuclear Medicine Technology
			 Certification Board's Code of Ethics.