North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 114 - Medical Imaging and Radition Therapy Board › Article 114-01 - General Administration › Chapter 114-01-02 - Definitions › Section 114-01-02-01 - Definitions

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
The terms used in this title have the same meaning as in
				  North Dakota Century Code chapter 43-62 and apply to North Dakota
				  Administrative Code title 114 unless the context indicates otherwise.
1. "Accreditation" means the official
				authorization or status granted by a nationally recognized accrediting
				organization or agency.
2.
				"Applicant" means an individual seeking official action by the board.
3. "Approved" means the standards established
				by the board are met.
4.
				"Authority" means legal authority granted through licensure to provide medical
				imaging or radiation therapy services to patients.
5. "Authorized user" means a physician,
				dentist, or podiatrist who is licensed as required to possess and use
				radioactive materials under North Dakota Century Code chapter
				23.1-03.
6. "Bone densitometry
				technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is
				responsible for administration of ionizing radiation to humans to determine the
				density of bone structure for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research
				purposes.
7. "Cardiac
				electrophysiology specialist" means an individual, other than a licensed
				practitioner, who assists with limited fluoroscopic radiologic procedures,
				sonography, or diagnostic and interventional cardiac electrophysiology
				procedures.
8.
				"Cardiac-interventional technologist" means an individual, other than a
				licensed practitioner, that is responsible for the administration of ionizing
				radiation to humans to visualize cardiac structures for diagnostic,
				therapeutic, or research purposes.
9. "Cardiovascular invasive specialist" means
				an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who assists with medical
				equipment emitting ionizing radiation for fluoroscopic radiologic procedures or
				performs sonography procedures that are limited to specific body parts and only
				for cardiovascular interventional procedures.
10. "Competence" means the application and
				integration of knowledge, skills, ability, and judgment necessary to meet
				standards.
11. "Computed tomography
				technologist" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is
				responsible for the administration of ionizing radiation to humans for
				diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
12. "Conditional license" means a license
				issued by the board to an individual who may or may not have graduated from a
				program and is actively working toward certification and
				registration.
13. "Continuing
				education" means a relevant education activity or program that has been
				approved by an organization or entity, which has been recognized or authorized
				by a certification organization to approve or provide continuing education or
				continuing medical education activities for medical imaging or radiation
				therapy professionals.
14.
				"Criminal history record information" has the same meaning as the phrase is
				defined in North Dakota Century Code section 12-60-16.1.
15. "Fluoroscopy" means the exposure of a
				patient to x-rays to provide real-time, dynamic viewing of anatomic structures,
				including positioning the patient and fluoroscopic equipment along with the
				selection of factors needed to produce an image.
16. "Internationally educated" means educated
				outside the United States.
17.
				"Jurisdiction" means a province, state, or territory that certifies, registers,
				or licenses medical imaging or radiation therapy professionals to
				practice.
18. "Lapsed" means a
				license which is not renewed.
19.
				"License" means the legal authority granted by the board to practice one or
				more of the medical imaging and radiation therapy modalities.
20. "Licensure" means the process by which
				the board grants legal authority to an individual to engage in the practice of
				medical imaging or radiation therapy upon finding the individual has attained
				the essential education, certification and competence, or on-the-job training,
				necessary to ensure the public health, safety, and welfare will be
				protected.
21. "Limited license"
				means to restrict, qualify, or otherwise modify the license related to a scope
				of practice.
22. "Limited x-ray
				machine operator" means an individual who performs radiologic examinations and
				has completed the necessary didactic and clinical training required to follow
				strict guidelines in the performance of limited series x-ray
				procedures.
23. "Magnetic resonance
				imaging technologist" means an individual other than a licensed practitioner,
				who uses radiofrequency transmission within a high-strength magnetic field on
				humans for diagnostic, therapeutic, or research purposes.
24. "Mammography technologist" means an
				individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is responsible for
				administration of ionizing radiation and breast directed high-frequency sound
				waves for diagnostic, therapeutic, and research purposes, and performs breast
				imaging procedure and related techniques, producing data.
25. "Medically underserved areas" means
				having met the criteria based on the Index of Medical Underservice, published
				in the Federal Register on October 15, 1976. See
				42
				CFR 51C.102(e) United States
				of health and human services health resources and services
				administration.
26. "Nuclear
				medicine technologist" means an individual, other than an authorized user, who
				prepares and administers radiopharmaceuticals and related drugs to human beings
				for diagnostic and research purposes, and is responsible for the use of
				ionizing and nonionizing radiation and molecular imaging, performs in vivo and
				in vitro detection and measurement of radioactivity and administers
				radiopharmaceuticals to human beings for therapeutic purposes.
27. "Other modality" means the practice of
				one or more of the medical imaging and radiation therapy recognized professions
				while in compliance with the continuing education requirements established by
				the board.
28. "Primary source
				verification" means the process used by the board or its designee to confirm
				certification and registration information submitted by the applicant or
				licensee with the appropriate certification organization.
29. "Quality management technologist" means
				an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who has received specific
				documented training to perform physics surveys independently with medical
				physicist oversight and may assist a medical physicist for special modality
				physics surveys. The licensee also may supervise quality control and quality
				improvement projects that ensure improved medical imaging and radiation therapy
				department performance.
30.
				"Radiographer" means an individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who
				performs a comprehensive set of diagnostic radiographic procedures using
				external ionizing radiation and contrast media to produce radiographic,
				fluoroscopic, or digital images.
31. "Radiologist assistant" means an
				individual, other than a licensed practitioner, who is a medical radiographer
				with advanced-level training and certification, and performs selected radiology
				examinations and procedures.
32.
				"Radiology" means the branch of medicine that deals with the study and
				application of imaging technology to diagnose and treat disease.
33. "Reinstatement" means issuance of a
				previously active license in the absence of disciplinary action.
34. "Relicensure" means renewal,
				reinstatement, or reissuance of a license.
35. "Scope of practice" means the delineation
				of the nature and extent of practice.
36. "Sonographer" means an individual, other
				than a licensed practitioner, who uses nonionizing, high-frequency sound waves
				with specialized equipment to direct the sound waves into areas of the human
				body to generate images for the assessment and diagnosis of various medical
				conditions.
37. "Supervision" means
				responsibility for and control of, quality, radiation safety and protection,
				and technical aspects of the application of ionizing and nonionizing radiation
				to human beings for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes:
a. "General" means the licensee is under the
				overall direction and control of a licensed practitioner or an authorized user
				whose presence is not required during the performance of the
				procedure.
b. "Personal" means the
				licensed practitioner must be in attendance in the room during the performance
				of the procedure.