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Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 25 - OFFICE REQUIREMENTS › Section 100-25-5 - Standard of care

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Each person licensed to practice a branch of the healing arts
				who performs direct patient care in an office or who performs any office-based
				surgery or special procedures in an office shall meet the standard of care
				established by the regulations in this article.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 26 - SERVICES RENDERED TO INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THIS STATE › Section 100-26-1 - Services rendered to individuals located in this state

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Except as
			 authorized by
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2872 and amendments thereto and this
			 article, each person, regardless of location, who performs any act specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2802(a) and amendments
			 thereto or who issues an order for any service that constitutes the practice of
			 the healing arts on an individual located in this state shall be deemed to be
			 engaged in the practice of the healing arts in this state.
(b) Nothing in this article shall be
			 construed to prohibit an out-of-state practitioner, as defined by K.A.R.
			 100-26-2, from providing verbal, written, or electronic communication that is
			 incidental to the services lawfully provided by the out-of-state practitioner
			 and that is conveyed to any of the following individuals located in this state:
(1) Any health professional;
(2) any patient; or
(3) any individual authorized to act on
			 behalf of a patient.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 26 - SERVICES RENDERED TO INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THIS STATE › Section 100-26-2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
As used in this article, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) "Diagnostic professional service"
			 means the testing of a human being for the detection or evaluation of a
			 disease, ailment, deformity, or injury within this state pursuant to the valid
			 order of an out-of-state practitioner.
(b) "Health care facility" means an entity
			 licensed by the secretary of the Kansas department of health and environment or
			 by the secretary of the department of social and rehabilitation services of the
			 state of Kansas to provide any service that constitutes the practice of the
			 healing arts. This term shall include any persons who are employed by the
			 health care facility to implement the orders issued by licensees of the board.
(c) "Health professional" means an
			 individual who is licensed, registered, or certified by a Kansas regulatory
			 agency and who renders services, directly or indirectly, for the purpose of any
			 of the following:
(1) Preventing physical,
			 mental, or emotional illness;
(2)
			 detecting, diagnosing, and treating illness;
(3) facilitating recovery from illness; or
(4) providing rehabilitative or
			 continuing care following illness.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 26 - SERVICES RENDERED TO INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THIS STATE › Section 100-26-3 - Orders for diagnostic professional services and therapeutic professional services

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Any health care
			 facility may perform a diagnostic professional service or therapeutic
			 professional service pursuant to the valid order of an out-of-state
			 practitioner.
(b) Any health
			 professional may perform a diagnostic professional service outside of a health
			 care facility pursuant to the valid order of an out-of-state practitioner.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 27 - LIGHT-BASED MEDICAL TREATMENT › Section 100-27-1 - Supervision of light-based medical treatment

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(a)
(1) The phrase "class III or class IV device"
			 shall mean a medical instrument that meets either of the following conditions:
(A) Is a class IIIa, class IIIb, or class IV
			 laser product as defined by 21 C.F.R. §
											1040.10, as in
			 effect on March 31, 2000; or
(B)
			 emits radiation in a continuous wave of more than one milliwatt or at a pulsed
			 rate of more than five milliwatts.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-1 - Fees

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The following fees shall be collected by the board:
(a) Application for license
			 ............................ $200.00
(b) Annual renewal of license:
(1) Paper renewal
			 ........................................ $150.00
(2) On-line renewal
			 ..................................... $150.00
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-2 - Application

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each
			 application for li-censure as a physician assistant shall be submitted on a
			 form provided by the board. The form shall contain the following information:
(1) The applicant's full name;
(2) the applicant's home address and, if
			 different, the applicant's mailing address;
(3) the applicant's date and place of
			 birth;
(4) the applicant's social
			 security number, individual tax identification number, or nondriver
			 identification number, if the applicant is advised that providing a social
			 security number is voluntary pursuant to
			 K.S.A.
			 74-139 and
			 74-148, and amendments thereto,
			 and that if the social security number is provided, the agency may provide this
			 number to the Kansas department of social and rehabilitation services for child
			 support enforcement purposes and to the Kansas department of revenue's director
			 of taxation;
(5) the issue date;
			 state, territory, the District of Columbia, or other country of issuance; and
			 the identifying number on any license, registration, or certification issued to
			 the applicant to practice any health care profession;
(6) documentation of any prior acts
			 constituting unprofessional conduct as defined in K.A.R. 100-28a-8;
(7) the applicant's daytime telephone
			 number;
(8) the names of all
			 educational programs recognized under K.A.R. 100-28a-3 that the applicant
			 attended, including the program from which the applicant graduated, the degree
			 awarded to the applicant, and the date of graduation;
(9) notarized certification that the
			 applicant has completed a physician assistant program from a postsecon-dary
			 school recognized under K.A.R. 100-28a-3;
(10) a list of all attempts to gain board
			 certification recognized under K.A.R. 100-28a-4 and an official copy of the
			 applicant's board certification; and
(11) a notarized release authorizing the
			 board to receive any relevant information, files, or records requested by the
			 board in connection with the application.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-3 - Education and training

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each
			 educational program for physician assistants accredited by the accreditation
			 review committee on education for the physician assistant, inc., or by a
			 predecessor agency, and all other educational programs that are determined by
			 the board to have a standard of education substantially equivalent to the
			 accreditation criteria of the committee shall be approved by the board.
(b) Each applicant who has
			 acquired experience as a physician assistant while serving in the armed forces
			 of the United States shall provide proof that the applicant is competent to
			 perform all of the following:
(1) Screen
			 patients to determine need for medical attention;
(2) review patient records to determine
			 health status;
(3) take a patient
			 history;
(4) perform a physical
			 examination;
(5) perform a
			 developmental screening examination on children;
(6) record pertinent patient data;
(7) make decisions regarding data gathering
			 and appropriate management and treatment of patients being seen for the initial
			 evaluation of a problem or the follow-up evaluation of a previously diagnosed
			 and stabilized condition;
(8)
			 prepare patient summaries;
(9)
			 initiate requests for commonly performed initial laboratory studies;
(10) collect specimens for and carry out
			 commonly performed blood, urine, and stool analyses and cultures;
(11) identify normal and abnormal findings on
			 history, physical examination and commonly performed laboratory studies;
(12) initiate appropriate
			 evaluation and emergency management for emergency situations, including cardiac
			 arrest, respiratory distress, injuries, burns and hemorrhage;
(13) counsel and instruct patients; and
(14) administer commonly performed
			 clinical procedures that shall include all of the following:
(A) Venipuncture;
(B) intradermal tests;
(C) electrocardiogram;
(D) care and suturing of minor lacerations;
(E) casting and splinting;
(F) control of external
			 hemorrhage;
(G) application of
			 dressings and bandages;
(H)
			 administration of medications and intravenous fluids, and transfusion of blood
			 or blood components;
(I) removal
			 of superficial foreign bodies;
(J)
			 cardiopulmonary resuscitation;
(K)
			 audiometry screening;
(L) visual
			 screening; and
(M) aseptic and
			 isolation techniques.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-4 - Examination

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) The examination
			 approved by the board for licensure as a physician assistant shall be the
			 physician assistant national certifying examination prepared and administered
			 by the national commission on certification of physician assistants.
(b) To pass the approved examination, each
			 applicant shall achieve at least the minimum passing score of 350.
(c) Each applicant who has passed the
			 approved examination for a license and has not been in active practice as a
			 physician assistant for more than one year, but less than five years from the
			 date the application was submitted, shall provide one of the following:
(1) Evidence of completion of a minimum of 50
			 continuing education credit hours; or
(2) proof that the applicant has passed an
			 examination approved by the board within 12 months before the date the
			 application was submitted, or has successfully completed a continuing education
			 program, or other individually tailored program approved by the board.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-5 - Continuing education

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each
			 physician assistant shall submit with the renewal application one of the
			 following:
(1) Evidence of satisfactory
			 completion of at least 50 continuing education credit hours during the
			 preceding year. At least 20 continuing education credit hours shall be acquired
			 from category I and at least one continuing education credit hour shall be
			 acquired from category III, if 50 continuing education credit hours are
			 submitted with the renewal application;
(2) evidence of satisfactory completion of at
			 least 100 continuing education credit hours during the preceding two-year
			 period. At least 40 continuing education credit hours shall be acquired from
			 category I and at least two continuing education credit hours shall be acquired
			 from category III, if 100 continuing education credit hours are submitted with
			 the renewal application; or
(3)
			 evidence verifying satisfactory completion of continuing education credit hours
			 equivalent, in number and category, to those hours required by paragraph (a)
			 (1) or (2), issued by a national, state, or local organization with continuing
			 education standards that are at least as stringent as the board's
			 standards.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-6 - Scope of practice

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
A physician assistant may perform acts that constitute the
				practice of medicine and surgery in the following instances:
(a) If directly ordered, authorized, and
			 coordinated by the responsible or designated physician through the physician's
			 immediate or physical presence;
(b) if directly ordered, authorized, and
			 coordinated by the responsible or designated physician through radio,
			 telephone, or other form of telecommunication;
(c) if authorized on the form provided by,
			 and presented to, the board by the responsible physician pursuant to K.S.A.
			 2000 Supp.
			 65-28a03 and amendments thereto;
			 or
(d) if an emergency exists.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-7 - Professional incompetency: defined

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
"Professional incompetency" means any of the following:
(a) One or more instances involving failure
			 to adhere to the applicable standard of care to a degree that constitutes gross
			 negligence, as determined by the board;
(b) repeated instances involving failure to
			 adhere to the applicable standard of care to a degree that constitutes ordinary
			 negligence, as determined by the board; or
(c) a pattern of practice or other behavior
			 that demonstrates a manifest incapacity or incompetence to perform professional
			 services as a physician assistant.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-8 - Unprofessional conduct: defined

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
"Unprofessional conduct" means any of the following:
(a) Being convicted of a class A misdemeanor,
			 whether or not related to the practice as a physician assistant;
(b) committing fraud or misrepresentation in
			 applying for or securing an original, renewal, or reinstated license;
(c) cheating on or attempting to
			 subvert the validity of the examination for a license;
(d) soliciting professional services through
			 the use of fraudulent or false advertisements;
(e) willfully or repeatedly violating the
			 physician assistant licensure act, the pharmacy act of the state of Kansas, or
			 the uniform controlled substances act, or any regulations adopted pursuant to
			 these acts;
(f) engaging in the
			 practice as a physician assistant under a false or assumed name, or
			 impersonating another practitioner;
(g) practicing as a physician assistant
			 without reasonable skill and safety to patients because of any of the
			 following:
(1) Illness;
(2) alcoholism;
(3) excessive use of alcohol, drugs,
			 controlled substances, chemicals, or any other type of material; or
(4) any mental or physical condition;
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-9 - Physician request form; content

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The responsible physician request form to be presented to the
				board pursuant to K.S.A. 2000 Supp.
				65-28a03, and amendments thereto,
				shall contain the following information:
(a) The date and signatures of the
			 responsible physician and the physician assistant;
(b) the license numbers of the responsible
			 physician and the physician assistant;
(c) a description of the physician's practice
			 and the way in which the physician assistant is to be utilized;
(d) a statement that the responsible
			 physician will always be available for communication with the physician
			 assistant within 30 minutes of the performance of patient service by the
			 physician assistant;
(e) a
			 completed drug prescription protocol on a form provided by the board specifying
			 categories of drugs, medicines, and pharmaceuticals that the physician
			 assistant will be allowed to prescribe, and the drugs within any category that
			 the physician assistant will not be allowed to supply, prescribe, receive, or
			 distribute;
(f) the name and
			 address of each practice location, including hospitals, where the physician
			 assistant will routinely perform acts that constitute the practice of medicine
			 and surgery;
(g) signatures of all
			 designated physicians who routinely provide direction and supervision to the
			 physician assistant in the temporary absence of the responsible physician, and
			 a description of the procedures to be followed to notify a designated physician
			 in the responsible physician's absence;
(h) an acknowledgment that failure to
			 adequately direct and supervise the physician assistant in accordance with
			 K.S.A. 2000 Supp.
			 65-28a01 through
			 K.S.A.
			 65-28a09, and amendments thereto, or
			 regulations adopted under these statutes by the board, shall constitute grounds
			 for revocation, suspension, limitation, or censure of the responsible
			 physician's license to practice medicine and surgery in the state of Kansas;
(i) a statement that a current
			 copy of the form will be maintained at each practice location of the
			 responsible physician and the physician assistant and that any changes to the
			 form will be provided to the board within 10 days; and
(j) an acknowledgment that the responsible
			 physician has established and implemented a method for initial and periodic
			 evaluation of the professional competency of the physician assistant and that
			 evaluations will be performed at least annually.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-10 - Supervising physician

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each
			 supervising physician shall meet all of the following requirements:
(1)Engage in the practice of medicine and
			 surgery in Kansas;
(2)verify that
			 the physician assistant has a current license issued by the board;
(3)at least annually, review, evaluate, and
			 determine whether the physician assistant has performed patient services
			 constituting the practice of medicine and surgery with professional competence
			 and with reasonable skill and safety;
(4)at least annually, review the active
			 practice request form required by K.A.R.
			 100-28a-9 and determine if any amendments are
			 necessary. Each amendment shall be conveyed to the physician assistant,
			 specified in all copies of the active practice request form, and provided to
			 the board within 10 days of being made;
(5)report to the board any knowledge of
			 disciplinary hearings, formal hearings, public or private censure, or other
			 disciplinary action taken against the physician assistant by any state's
			 licensure or registration authority or any professional association. The
			 supervising physician shall report this information to the board within 10 days
			 of receiving notice of the information;
(6)report to the board the termination of
			 responsibility by the supervising physician or any litigation alleging conduct
			 by the physician assistant that would constitute grounds for disciplinary
			 action under the physician assistant licensure act. The supervising physician
			 shall report this information to the board within 10 days of receiving notice
			 of the information;
(7)arrange for
			 a substitute supervising physician to provide supervision on each occasion when
			 the supervising physician is temporarily absent, is unable to be immediately
			 contacted by telecommunication, or is otherwise unavailable at any time the
			 physician assistant could reasonably be expected to provide professional
			 services; and
(8)delegate to the
			 physician assistant only those acts that constitute the practice of medicine
			 and surgery and meet the following conditions:
(A) The supervising physician believes or has
			 reason to believe that the acts can be competently performed by the physician
			 assistant, based upon the physician assistant's background, training,
			 capabilities, skill, and experience; and
(B) the acts are within the supervising
			 physician's clinical competence and customary
			 practice.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-11 - Duty to communicate

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The physician assistant shall communicate with the responsible
				or designated physician concerning a patient's condition if the physician
				assistant believes that the patient's condition may require any treatment that
				the physician assistant has not been authorized to perform.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-12 - Designated physician

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
If a designated physician directs and supervises a physician
				assistant, the designated physician shall be deemed to have the same duties and
				responsibilities as those of the responsible physician.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-13 - Prescription-only drugs

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) A physician
			 assistant may prescribe a prescription-only drug or administer or supply a
			 prescription-only drug as authorized by the drug prescription protocol required
			 by K.A.R. 100-28a-9 and as authorized by this regulation.
(b) As used in this regulation, "emergency
			 situation" shall have the meaning ascribed to it in K.A.R. 68-20-19(a)(5).
(c) A physician assistant may
			 directly administer a prescription-only drug as follows:
(1) If directly ordered or authorized by the
			 responsible or designated physician;
(2) if authorized by a written drug
			 prescription protocol between the responsible physician and the physician
			 assistant; or
(3) if an emergency
			 situation exists.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-14 - Different practice location

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Any physician assistant may perform acts that constitute the
				practice of medicine and surgery at a different practice location if all of the
				following requirements are met:
(a)
			 Before providing any services at the different practice location, the physician
			 assistant shall have spent at least 80 hours since being licensed under the
			 direct supervision of a physician licensed in this state.
(b) The supervising physician or substitute
			 supervising physician shall remain available to provide guidance, direction,
			 and coordination of the activities of the physician assistant. This
			 availability may be provided by electronic means.
(c) The different practice location shall be
			 listed on the active practice request form required by
			 K.A.R.
			 100-28a-9.
(d) Written notice that the different
			 practice location is staffed primarily by a physician assistant shall be posted
			 in a location where the notice is likely to be seen by patients.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-15 - Licensure; expiration

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Except as
			 specified in subsection (b), each physician assistant license issued by the
			 board shall expire on December 31 of each year.
(b) A license issued or reinstated from
			 October 1 through December 31 shall expire on December 31 of the following
			 year.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-16 - Reinstatement; lapsed and revoked licenses

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each applicant who has not been in active
			 practice as a physician assistant in another state or jurisdiction and who
			 wants to reinstate a license that has been lapsed for failure to renew shall
			 submit proof of continuing medical education as follows:
(1) If the time since the license lapsed has
			 been one year or less, no continuing medical education shall be required in
			 addition to that which would have been necessary had the license been renewed
			 before expiration.
(2) If the time
			 since the license lapsed has been more than one year but less than five years,
			 the applicant shall provide one of the following:
(A) Evidence of completion of at least 50
			 hours of continuing education credit, including at least one hour from category
			 III, within 12 months before the date the application for reinstatement was
			 submitted; or
(B) proof that the
			 applicant has passed an examination approved by the board within 12 months
			 before the date the application for reinstatement was submitted, or has
			 successfully completed a continuing education program or other individual
			 program approved by the board.
(3) If the time since the license lapsed has
			 been five years or more, the applicant shall provide proof of passage of an
			 examination approved by the board within 12 months before the date the
			 application for reinstatement was submitted, or proof of successful completion
			 of a continuing education program or other individual program approved by the
			 board.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-17 - Limitation on number of physician assistants supervised

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) A responsible
			 physician shall not provide direction and supervision to more than two
			 physician assistants without the board's prior approval.
(b) Each responsible physician wishing to
			 provide direction and supervision to more than two physician assistants shall
			 provide a written and signed request to the board with the following
			 information:
(1) The name of each physician
			 assistant to whom the responsible physician proposes to provide direction and
			 supervision; and
(2) the reason
			 for the request.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28a - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Section 100-28a-18 - Physician assistant; ownership of corporation or company

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Licensed
			 physician assistants shall not hold more than 49 percent of the total number of
			 shares issued by a professional corporation that is organized to render the
			 professional services of a physician, surgeon or doctor of medicine, or
			 osteopathic physician or surgeon.
(b) Licensed physician assistants shall not
			 contribute more than 49 percent of the total amount of capital to a
			 professional liability company that is organized to render the professional
			 services of a physician, surgeon or doctor of medicine, or osteopathic
			 physician or surgeon.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-2 - Application for licensure

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Each applicant for licensure to engage in the independent
				practice of midwifery shall submit the following to the board:
(a) The fee required by
			 K.A.R.
			 100-28b-6;
(b) a completed application on a form
			 provided by the board;
(c) a signed
			 waiver agreement and statement for fingerprint-based record checks;
(d) an official transcript for the applicant
			 from an educational program approved by the board under
			 K.A.R.
			 100-28b-3 that specifies the degree
			 awarded;
(e) an official
			 verification of licensure to practice as an advanced practice registered nurse
			 in the role of nurse-midwife provided directly to the board from the state
			 board of nursing;
(f) an official
			 verification of approved national certification provided directly to the board
			 from the American midwifery certification board; and
(g) an official verification of licensure,
			 registration, or certification to practice a health profession provided
			 directly to the board from each state or jurisdiction where the applicant holds
			 a current license, registration, or certification to practice a health
			 profession.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-3 - Approved course of study in nurse-midwifery

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The course of study in nurse-midwifery approved by the board to
				obtain authorization to engage in the independent practice of midwifery shall
				meet the standards established for advance practice registered nurses certified
				in nurse midwifery pursuant to the Kansas nurse practice act, and amendments
				thereto.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-4 - Approved national certification

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
The national certification approved by the board to obtain
				authorization to engage in the independent practice of midwifery shall be the
				certification offered by the American midwifery certification board.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-5 - License expiration and cancellation

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) Each license to engage in the independent
			 practice of midwifery issued within the seven-month period beginning June 1 and
			 ending December 31 shall expire on September 30 of the following year and shall
			 be cancelled on October 30 of that year, unless renewed.
(b) Each license to engage in the independent
			 practice of midwifery issued within the five-month period beginning January 1
			 and ending May 31 shall expire on September 30 and shall be cancelled on
			 October 30 of the same year, unless renewed.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-6 - Fees

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
(a) The following
			 fees shall be collected by the board:
(1) Application for license
							 ..................................
$ 100.00
(2) Annual renewal of license:
(A) Paper renewal
							 ................................................
$ 75.00
(B) On-line renewal
							 .............................................
$ 50.00
(3) Late renewal:
(A) Paper renewal
							 ................................................
$ 50.00
(B) On-line renewal
							 .............................................
$ 25.00
(4) Certified copy of license
							 ................................
$ 20.00
(5) Verified copy of license
							 .................................
$ 20.00
(b) If
			 a licensee's initial license is issued six or fewer months before the deadline
			 for the licensee to renew the license, the first annual renewal fee shall be
			 $25.00 if the licensee renews on-line.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-7 - Continuing education

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(a) As a condition
			 of renewal, evidence of completion within the preceding one-year period of 15
			 contact hours of continuing education may be requested by the board. The
			 continuing education shall meet or exceed the standards specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-1132(a)(2), and
			 amendments thereto.
(b) For the
			 purposes of this regulation, "contact hour" shall mean a total of 50 minutes of
			 participation in a learning experience intended to build upon the educational
			 and experiential bases of an advanced practice registered nurse midwife.
			 Fractions of hours over 30 minutes to be computed towards a contact hour shall
			 be accepted.
(c) An individual
			 initially licensed to engage in the independent practice of midwifery less than
			 12 months before the renewal date shall not be required to submit the evidence
			 of completion of continuing education required by subsection (a) for the first
			 renewal period.
(d) An extension of
			 not more than six months to submit evidence of completion of continuing
			 education may be granted by the board for a substantiated medical condition,
			 natural disaster, death of a spouse or an immediate family member, or any
			 similar circumstance beyond the licensee's control that renders the licensee
			 incapable of meeting the requirements of subsection (a). Each such request
			 shall be submitted with or before submitting an application for renewal and
			 shall include a plan for completion of the continuing education requirements
			 within the requested extension period.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-11 - Licensees who direct, supervise, or delegate acts that constitute the independent practice of midwifery; requirements and limitations

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Each licensee who directs, supervises, or delegates acts that
				constitute the independent practice of midwifery to any other persons shall
				meet the following requirements:
(a)
			 Be engaged in the independent practice of midwifery in Kansas;
(b) direct, supervise, or delegate only those
			 acts and functions that the licensee knows or has reason to know can be
			 competently performed by the person and are not in violation of any statute or
			 regulation; and
(c) direct,
			 supervise, or delegate only those acts and functions that are within the
			 competence and lawful practice of the licensee.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-12 - Assessment of patient for identifiable risks

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Each licensee shall perform and document an initial and
				ongoing assessment of each identifiable risk to the course of labor, delivery,
				or health of the patient or newborn to determine whether the clinical services
				required by the patient will be limited to those associated with a normal,
				uncomplicated pregnancy and a normal, uncomplicated delivery, including the
				following:
(a) Age of the
			 patient;
(b) gestational
			 age;
(c) major medical problems,
			 including the following:
(1) Chronic
			 hypertension, heart disease, or pulmonary embolus;
(2) congenital heart defect assessed as
			 pathological by a cardiologist that places the patient or fetus at
			 risk;
(3) renal disease;
(4) drug addiction or use of anticonvulsant
			 drugs;
(5) diabetes
			 mellitus;
(6) thyroid disease;
			 and
(7) bleeding disorder or
			 hemolytic disease;
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-14 - Patient records

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(a) Each
			 licensee shall maintain an adequate health care record for each patient for
			 whom the licensee performs a professional service.
(b) Each health care record shall meet the
			 following requirements:
(1) Contain only those
			 terms and abbreviations that are or should be comprehensible to similar
			 licensees;
(2) document adequate
			 identification of the patient;
(3)
			 document all professional services provided or recommended and the date on
			 which each professional service was provided or recommended;
(4) document all clinically pertinent
			 information concerning the patient's condition;
(5) document all identifiable risk
			 assessments performed on the patient;
(6) document all examinations, vital signs,
			 and tests obtained, performed, or ordered, and the findings and results of
			 each;
(7) document all medications
			 prescribed, dispensed, or administered, the time each medication was
			 prescribed, dispensed, or administered, and the dose and route of each
			 medication;
(8) document the
			 patient's response to all professional services performed or
			 recommended;
(9) document all
			 instruction and education provided to the patient related to the childbearing
			 process;
(10) document the date and
			 time of the onset of labor;
(11)
			 document the course of labor, including all examinations and pertinent
			 findings;
(12) document the date
			 and exact time of birth, the presenting part of the newborn's body, the
			 newborn's sex, and the newborn's Apgar scores;
(13) document the time of expulsion and the
			 condition of the placenta;
(14)
			 document the condition of the patient and newborn, including any complications
			 and action taken;
(15) contain the
			 results of all postpartum and newborn examinations;
(16) document all professional services
			 provided to the newborn, including prescribed medications and the time, type,
			 and dose of eye prophylaxis;
(17)
			 contain documentation of all consultation and collaboration with a physician
			 concerning the patient;
(18)
			 contain documentation of each referral, transfer, and transport to a medical
			 care facility, including the reasons for each referral, transfer, or transport
			 to a medical care facility;
(19)
			 contain all written instructions given to the patient regarding postpartum
			 care, family planning, care of the newborn, arrangements for metabolic testing,
			 immunizations, and follow-up pediatric care; and
(20) contain all pertinent health care
			 records received from other health care providers.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-15 - Transport and transfer protocol requirements

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(a) Each licensee shall have a written
			 protocol in place for each patient for the timely and safe transport to a
			 hospital with an obstetrical unit and physician within a reasonable proximity
			 of the planned location of labor and delivery. Each written protocol shall
			 include the following:
(1) A plan for
			 transporting the patient by emergency medical services;
(2) a plan for notification of the hospital
			 and physician;
(3) a plan for
			 communication of the patient's medical history and present condition;
			 and
(4) at least one of the
			 following:
(A) A plan for transferring the
			 patient to the hospital and a physician;
(B) evidence of a transfer agreement with the
			 hospital and physician; or
(C)
			 evidence that the licensee has admitting privileges at the specified
			 hospital.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-16 - Duty to consult, refer, transfer, and transport

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(a) A licensee shall immediately informally
			 consult, formally consult, refer, or transfer care of a patient to a physician,
			 or transport the patient to a hospital if the patient's medical history or
			 condition presents identifiable risks to the course of pregnancy, labor,
			 delivery, or health of the patient.
(b) Any licensee may continue or resume
			 providing clinical services to the patient if a physician has determined that
			 the patient's medical history or condition has been resolved, or that the
			 identifiable risks presented by the patient's medical history or condition are
			 not likely to affect the course of pregnancy, labor, delivery, or health of the
			 patient or newborn.
(c) A licensee
			 shall immediately informally consult, formally consult, refer, or transfer care
			 of a newborn to a physician, or transport the newborn to a hospital if at any
			 time the newborn's condition presents identifiable risks to the health of the
			 newborn.
(d) Any licensee may
			 continue or resume providing clinical services to the newborn if a physician
			 has determined that the newborn's condition has been resolved or that the
			 identifiable risks presented by the newborn's condition are not likely to
			 affect the health of the newborn.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-17 - Identifiable risks requiring immediate referral and transport of patient

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Identifiable risks requiring the immediate referral and
				transport of a patient shall include the following:
(a) Maternal fever of more than 100.4 degrees
			 Fahrenheit during labor, in the absence of environmental factors;
(b) suggestion of fetal jeopardy, including
			 clinically significant frank bleeding before delivery, abnormal bleeding with
			 or without abdominal pain, evidence of placental abruption, or detection of
			 abnormal fetal heart tones;
(c)
			 current spontaneous preterm labor;
(d) current preterm premature rupture of
			 membranes;
(e) current
			 preeclampsia;
(f) current
			 hypertensive disease of pregnancy;
(g) continuous uncontrolled
			 bleeding;
(h) postpartum bleeding
			 that does not subside with the administration of oxytocin or other
			 antihemorrhagic agent;
(i) delivery
			 injuries to the bladder or bowel;
(j) grand mal seizure;
(k) uncontrolled vomiting;
(l) coughing or vomiting blood;
(m) severe chest pain; and
(n) sudden onset of shortness of breath and
			 labored breathing.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-18 - Identifiable risks requiring immediate referral and transport of newborn

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 28, July 11, 2024
Identifiable risks requiring the immediate referral and
				transport of a newborn shall include the following:
(a) Respiratory rate greater than 80 or
			 grunting, flaring, or retracting following delivery with meconium-stained
			 fluid;
(b) central cyanosis or
			 pallor for more than 10 minutes;
(c) Apgar score of six or less at five
			 minutes of age;
(d) abnormal
			 bleeding;
(e) more than eight hours
			 of continuous postpartum evaluation;
(f) vesicular skin lesions;
(g) seizure-like activity;
(h) poor feeding effort due to lethargy or
			 lack or interest for more than two hours immediately following birth;
(i) temperature less than 96.8 degrees
			 Fahrenheit or greater than 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit documented more than 15
			 minutes apart;
(j) heart murmur
			 lasting more than 24 hours immediately following birth;
(k) cardiac arrhythmia;
(l) congenital anomalies;
(m) failed critical congenital heart disease
			 screening;
(n) birth
			 injury;
(o) clinical evidence of
			 prematurity, including low birth weight of less than 2,500 grams, smooth soles
			 of feet, or immature genitalia;
(p)
			 jaundice in the first 24 hours after birth or significant jaundice at any
			 time;
(q) no stool for more than 24
			 hours immediately following birth;
(r) no urine output for more than 24 hours;
			 and
(s) development of persistent
			 poor feeding effort at any time.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 28b - INDEPENDENT PRACTICE OF MIDWIFERY › Section 100-28b-20 - Maintenance and storage of health care records

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(a) Each licensee shall maintain the health
			 care record for pregnancy, delivery, postpartum, and newborn care for at least
			 25 years from the date the licensee provided the professional service
			 recorded.
(b) Each licensee shall
			 maintain the health care record for family planning services and the treatment
			 of sexually transmitted infections for at least 10 years from the date the
			 licensee provided the professional service recorded.
(c) Any licensee may designate an entity,
			 another licensee, or a health care facility to maintain a health care record if
			 the licensee requires the designee to store the record in a manner that
			 maintains confidentiality and allows lawful access.
(d) Health care records may be stored by an
			 electronic data system, microfilm, or similar photographic means. Any licensee
			 may destroy original paper records if the electronically stored health care
			 record can be reproduced without alteration from the original.
(e) Each electronically stored health care
			 record shall identify any existing original documents or information not
			 included in the electronically stored health care record.
(f) Each licensee who terminates practice in
			 Kansas shall, within 30 days of the termination, provide the following
			 information to the board:
(1) The location
			 where the licensee's health care records are stored;
(2) if the licensee designates an agent to
			 maintain the health care records, the agent's name, telephone number, and
			 mailing address; and
(3) the date
			 on which the health care records are scheduled to be destroyed, according to
			 this regulation.
Kansas Administrative Regulations › Agency 100 - KANSAS STATE BOARD OF HEALING ARTS › Article 29 - PHYSICAL THERAPY › Section 100-29-1 - Applications

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(a) Each applicant
			 for licen-sure as a physical therapist or certification as a physical therapist
			 assistant shall submit a completed application on a form provided by the board.
			 The application shall include the following information in legible writing:
(1) The applicant's full name;
(2) the applicant's social security number,
			 driver's license number, nondriver identification number, or individual tax
			 identification number if the applicant is advised that providing a social
			 security number is voluntary pursuant to
			 K.S.A.
			 74-139 and
			 74-148, and amendments thereto,
			 and that if the social security number is provided, the agency may provide this
			 number to the Kansas department of social and rehabilitation services for child
			 support enforcement purposes and to the Kansas department of revenue's director
			 of taxation;
(3) the applicant's
			 mailing address. If the applicant's mailing address is different from the
			 applicant's residential address, the applicant shall also provide the
			 residential address;
(4) the
			 applicant's daytime telephone number;
(5) the applicant's date and place of
			 birth;
(6) the names of all
			 educational programs recognized under K.A.R. 100-29-2 that the applicant
			 attended, including the program from which the applicant graduated, the degree
			 awarded to the applicant, and the date of graduation;
(7) information regarding any licenses,
			 registrations, or certifications issued to the applicant to practice any
			 healthcare profession;
(8)
			 information regarding any prior acts specified in
			 K.S.A.
			 65-2912, and amendments thereto, that could
			 constitute grounds for denial of the application;
(9) a notarized release authorizing the board
			 to receive any relevant information, files, or records requested by the board
			 in connection with the application; and
(10) the number of times the applicant has
			 taken the examination required by the board for licensure or certification and
			 the date that the applicant passed the examination.