Kentucky Statutes 311B.110 – Application for licensure — Display of license — Continuing education — Renewal — Inactive status — Administrative regulations
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(1) An applicant for licensure as an advanced imaging professional, medical imaging technologist, radiographer, radiation therapist, nuclear medicine technologist, or limited X-ray machine operator shall file an application in a format prescribed by the board.
(2) Licensees shall display or have available an original current license at any place of employment. It shall be unlawful for any person to display a license in an effort to misrepresent his or her qualifications. An individual who no longer meets the licensure requirements shall not display a license nor purport to have the qualifications.
(3) Licensees shall meet continuing education requirements.
(4) Licenses shall be renewed or reinstated in accordance with the requirements set out by the board.
(5) Licenses may be placed on inactive status for those who are not actively employed, as defined by this chapter. To reactivate an inactive license, the applicant shall submit a new application and required fee and meet all requirements for reactivation.
(6) The requirements of this section shall be established by the board through the promulgation of administrative regulations.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Created 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 11, effective July 12, 2012.
(2) Licensees shall display or have available an original current license at any place of employment. It shall be unlawful for any person to display a license in an effort to misrepresent his or her qualifications. An individual who no longer meets the licensure requirements shall not display a license nor purport to have the qualifications.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 311B.110
- Actively employed: means an individual who is appropriately credentialed and currently employed as an advanced imaging professional, medical imaging technologist, radiation therapist, an educator or administrator in any of these disciplines, or a limited X-ray machine operator. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
- Advanced imaging professional: means an individual who is credentialed by a nationally recognized certification organization that is recognized by the board. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
- Board: means the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
- Continuing education: means a learning activity that is planned, organized, and administered to enhance the professional knowledge and skills of a licensed individual of medical imaging or radiation therapy to provide services for patients, the public, or the medical profession. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
- Nuclear medicine technologist: means an individual who is authorized to prepare and administer radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals, and radionuclides under the direction of an authorized user to perform nuclear medicine procedures for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
- Radiographer: means an individual who is authorized to use ionizing radiation- generating equipment to perform a comprehensive scope of diagnostic imaging procedures and is responsible for the operation of radiation-generating equipment, protecting the patient and staff from unnecessary radiation, and selecting the appropriate exposure to produce diagnostic images with the lowest reasonable exposure. See Kentucky Statutes 311B.020
(3) Licensees shall meet continuing education requirements.
(4) Licenses shall be renewed or reinstated in accordance with the requirements set out by the board.
(5) Licenses may be placed on inactive status for those who are not actively employed, as defined by this chapter. To reactivate an inactive license, the applicant shall submit a new application and required fee and meet all requirements for reactivation.
(6) The requirements of this section shall be established by the board through the promulgation of administrative regulations.
Effective: July 12, 2012
History: Created 2012 Ky. Acts ch. 50, sec. 11, effective July 12, 2012.