Kansas Statutes 65-5006. Same; credentialing criteria
(a) The technical committee appointed pursuant to Kan. Stat. Ann. §§ 65-5003 and amendments thereto and the secretary shall apply the following criteria to each credentialing application:
(1) The unregulated practice of the occupation or profession can harm or endanger the health, safety or welfare of the public and the potential for such harm is recognizable and not remote;
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 65-5006
- Certification: means the process by which a nongovernmental agency or association or the federal government grants recognition to an individual who has met certain predetermined qualifications specified by the nongovernmental agency or association or the federal government. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- credentialed: means the formal recognition of professional or technical competence through the process of registration, licensure or other statutory regulation. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- Health care personnel: means those persons whose principal functions, customarily performed for remuneration, are to render services, directly or indirectly, to individuals for the purpose of:
(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; and who are qualified by training, education or experience to do so. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- Secretary: means the secretary of health and environment. See Kansas Statutes 65-5001
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(2) the practice of the occupation or profession requires an identifiable body of knowledge or proficiency in procedures, or both, acquired through a formal period of advanced study or training, and the public needs and will benefit by assurances of initial and continuing occupational or professional ability;
(3) if the practice of the occupation or profession is performed, for the most part, under the direction of other health care personnel or inpatient facilities providing health care services, such arrangement is not adequate to protect the public from persons performing noncredentialed functions and procedures;
(4) the public is not effectively protected from harm by certification of members of the occupation or profession or by means other than credentialing;
(5) the effect of credentialing of the occupation or profession on the cost of health care to the public is minimal;
(6) the effect of credentialing of the occupation or profession on the availability of health care personnel providing services provided by such occupation or profession is minimal;
(7) the scope of practice of the occupation or profession is identifiable;
(8) the effect of credentialing of the occupation or profession on the scope of practice of other health care personnel, whether or not credentialed under state law, is minimal; and
(9) nationally recognized standards of education or training exist for the practice of the occupation or profession and are identifiable.
(b) Reports of the technical committee, and the secretary shall include specific findings on the criteria set forth in subsection (a). No report of the technical committee or the secretary shall recommend credentialing of any occupational or professional group of health care personnel unless all the criteria set forth in subsection (a) have been met.