The executive director, in consultation with the advisory board, shall adopt rules pursuant to RSA 541-A:
I. Specifying the limited scopes of practice permitted to certified pulmonary function technicians, registered pulmonary function technologists and registered polysomnographic technologists.

Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 326-E:2

  • Board: means the advisory board of respiratory care practitioners. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 326-E:1
  • Executive director: means the executive director of the office of professional licensure and certification or designee. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 326-E:1
  • Respiratory care: means the treatment, management, diagnostic testing and evaluation of responses to respiratory or medical treatment and care of individuals or groups of individuals either having deficiencies or abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system or requiring support of the cardiopulmonary system. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 326-E:1

II. Relating to materiel management.
III. Specifying the eligibility requirements to be met by persons or entities seeking approval as providers of continuing education programs.
IV. Specifying the standards to be met by continuing education programs.
V. Specifying the professional organizations, or the standards to be met by professional organizations, whose approval of education programs qualifies the programs as board-approved continuing education.
VI. Respiratory care practice, including rules regarding the procedures for granting, revoking, and reinstating a license.