Ohio Administrative Code › Title 4747 - Ohio Speech and Hearing Professionals Board › Chapter 4747-1 - General Provisions › Section 4747-1-14 - Trainees

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) The activities
			 of the holder of a hearing aid dealers and fitters trainee permit, while
			 engaged in the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids as defined by
			 section 4747.01 of the Revised Code,
			 shall be supervised by an individual who is a licensed hearing aid dealer or
			 fitter. It shall be the responsibility of the trainee to maintain communication
			 with the supervisor and to inform said supervisor of all acts and deeds in the
			 pursuance of selling and/or fitting hearing aids. "Acts and deeds" include, but
			 are not limited to, the following: meeting with a user or potential user;
			 performing tests as defined in rule
			 4747-1-19 of the Administrative
			 Code; taking of an earmold impression(s); and fitting and/or selling of hearing
			 aids.
(B) "Supervision," as
			 required by section 4747.10 of the Revised Code,
			 means that:
(1) During the effective period of
			 the trainee permit, the trainee and that trainee's supervisor shall co-sign,
			 with a signature and license number, all forms, reports of audiometric and
			 other tests, and any other documents prepared by the trainee or the supervisor
			 in conjunction with the trainee in the process of testing human hearing or
			 fitting or selling a hearing aid or hearing aids.
(2) During the ninety calendar days
			 immediately following the effective date of the trainee permit as shown
			 thereon, a supervisor must be physically present with a trainee who is engaged
			 in the fitting or selling of hearing aids.
(3)
									Prior to
			 submitting an application for a hearing aid fitter license or upon expiration
			 of the trainee permit or a renewal thereof, the trainee permit holder shall
			 submit to the board a "Trainee Supervision Report" attesting that the trainee
			 permit holder and supervisor have complied with all the supervision
			 requirements under section
			 4747.10 of the Revised Code and
			 this rule.
(4) In order to ensure
			 that meaningful supervision is available to each person engaged in training to
			 become a licensed hearing aid dealer and fitter, no person, firm, partnership,
			 association or corporation shall employ or have any form of relationship with
			 more persons who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters trainee permits than it
			 employs persons who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters licenses. Any licensed
			 hearing aid dealer and fitter acting as a supervisor must be licensed for at
			 least two years. No one licensee may supervise more than two trainees at any
			 time. For the purpose of interpreting this rule, all persons in an organization
			 who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters licenses shall be considered
			 employees. However, no trainee shall be required to leave the place of
			 employment simply because the licensed supervisor leaves. The trainee shall be
			 permitted to work under the supervision of another licensed person until the
			 board is properly notified of the change in supervision within three working
			 days. No trainee may serve under more than one supervisor at a time.
(5) It
			 shall be the responsibility of the trainee to submit to the supervisor all
			 testing and sales documents pertinent to each sale, whether consummated or not.
			 Failure to do so shall be considered a violation of division (M) of section
			 4747.12 of the Revised Code and
			 paragraph (C)(2) of rule
			 4747-1-15 of the Administrative
			 Code.