New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 44 - CHAPTER IV OF THE STATE SANITARY CODE › Subchapter 2 - OPERATION OF CLINICAL LABORATORIES › Section 8:44-2.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
				  All terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the New Jersey
				  Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act,
				  45:9-42.2 6 et seq.
"Accredited" means having the approval conferred upon schools,
				  institutions, or programs where appropriate by a nationally recognized accrediting
				  agency or association as determined by the U.S. Commissioner of Education and/or New
				  Jersey State Board of Higher Education.
"Consultation" means a communication between two or more
				  physicians concerning the diagnosis or treatment in a given case. Consultation
				  would, when indicated, include history taking, examination of the patient, and
				  rendering to the attending physician an opinion concerning diagnosis and/or
				  treatment.
"Personal and direct supervision" means that a qualified general
				  supervisor or supervisory cytotechnologist, where applicable, is present in the
				  immediate bench area when laboratory procedures are being performed.
"Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine and
				  surgery by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners.
"Radioassay" means the analysis following the administration of a
				  radioactive material to a patient and the subsequent analysis of the body fluid, or
				  excreta in order to evaluate body function. This definition includes scanning and in
				  vivo measurements.
"Subsequent to graduation" means laboratory training and
				  experience acquired after receipt of the degree specified. However, experience as a
				  technologist in a licensed clinical laboratory, which was gained prior to acquiring
				  such degree, may be substituted on an equivalency basis of 1.5 years of such
				  experience for every 1 year of postdegree training and experience; and experience as
				  a general supervisor in a licensed clinical laboratory, which was gained prior to
				  acquiring such degree, may be substituted on a 1 for 1 basis.
"Substitution of education for experience" means that a minimum of
				  30 semester hours of credit from an approved school of medical technology, or
				  towards a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a chemical,
				  physical, or biological science as the major subject is considered equivalent to 2
				  years of experience. Additional education is equated at the rate of 15 semester
				  hours of credit for 1 year of experience.
"Trainee" means an individual who is gaining the required years of
				  clinical laboratory on-the-job experience to qualify as a technician and/or
				  technologist and is participating in a structured training program approved by the
				  Department of Health, designed to provide the trainee with a broad range of
				  laboratory procedures of progressive technical difficulty. A training program
				  compatible with that of a nationally recognized accrediting society, board or
				  organization is acceptable.
"True duplicate" means a carbon or other mechanical copy.