Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLV - Medical Professions › Subpart 2 - Licensure and Certification › Chapter 35 - Clinical Laboratory Personnel › Subchapter B - Licensure and Certification Requirements › Section XLV-3507 - Exceptions to Licensure or Certification Requirements

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. The licensure and certification
					 requirements of this Chapter shall not apply to:
1. clinical laboratory personnel practicing
					 exclusively in, and in the course and scope of their employment by, a clinical
					 laboratory operated by the United States government;
2. clinical laboratory personnel practicing
					 exclusively in, and in the course and scope of their employment by, a nonprofit
					 laboratory operated and maintained exclusively for instruction or research
					 involving no individual patient or public health care service, provided the
					 results of any examination performed in such laboratory are not used directly
					 in the diagnosis, evaluation, or treatment of human disease or
					 disorder;
3. any physician licensed
					 by the board to practice medicine;
4. any individual working under the direction
					 and supervision of a physician licensed by the board in an operating room,
					 theater, emergency room, or intensive care unit;
5. any pulmonary function technician acting
					 within the scope of performance of the practice of respiratory
					 therapy;
6. any clinical
					 perfusionist acting within the scope of practice of perfusion in the support,
					 treatment, measurement, or supplementation of the cardiopulmonary and
					 circulatory system of an individual patient;
7. any health care provider when acting
					 within the scope of practice authorized by his or her licensure, certification,
					 or registration;
8. any individual
					 whose duties include only the performance of waived tests, whether performed in
					 a physician's office laboratory, a hospital clinical laboratory, or at the
					 point of care, and which do not require the exercise of independent
					 judgment;
9. any individual
					 performing phlebotomy or acting as a phlebotomist employed by or acting under
					 the direction and supervision of a physician licensed by the board, a clinic
					 operated by a health care provider authorized by license to perform clinical
					 laboratory testing, a hospital, a nursing home, or other licensed health care
					 facility authorized by licensure to perform clinical laboratory
					 testing;
10. any individual whose
					 duties may include demonstrating or instructing, or both, the use of any
					 automated or digital instrument, device, machine, or similar mechanical
					 equipment and related procedures utilized to assist in the practice of clinical
					 laboratory science, provided the results furnished by such equipment during
					 demonstration or instruction are not used in the diagnosis, evaluation, or
					 treatment of human disease or disorder; or
11. individuals performing forensic testing
					 and examinations of body fluids, tissues, cells, or blood solely for the
					 purpose of law enforcement and the state's criminal justice system.