Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 46a > Part 5 - Unprofessional Conduct

• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• hearing aid: means any device designed or offered to be worn on or by an individual to enhance human hearing, including the device's specialized parts, attachments, or accessories. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• Hearing instrument intern: means a person licensed under this chapter who is obtaining education and experience in the practice of a hearing instrument specialist under the supervision of a supervising hearing instrument specialist. See Utah Code 58-46a-102
• Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Practice of a hearing instrument specialist: means :

  (a)	establishing a place of business to practice as a hearing instrument specialist;

  (b)

  testing the hearing of a human patient over the age of 17 for the sole purpose of determining whether a hearing loss will be sufficiently improved by the use of a hearing instrument to justify prescribing and selling the hearing instrument and whether that hearing instrument will be in the best interest of the patient;

  (c)	providing the patient a written statement of prognosis regarding the need for or usefulness of a hearing instrument for the patient's condition;

  (d)	prescribing an appropriate hearing instrument;

  (e)	making impressions or earmolds for the fitting of a hearing instrument;

  (f)	sale and professional placement of the hearing instrument on a patient;

  (g)	evaluating the hearing loss overcome by the installation of the hearing instrument and evaluating the hearing recovery against the representations made to the patient by the hearing instrument specialist;

  (h)	necessary intervention to produce satisfactory hearing recovery results from a hearing instrument; or

  (i)

  instructing the patient on the use and care of the hearing instrument. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 Supervising hearing instrument specialist: means a hearing instrument specialist who: (a)  is licensed by and in good standing with the division; (b)  has practiced full-time as a hearing instrument specialist for not less than two years; and (c)  is approved as a supervisor by the division. See Utah Code 58-46a-102 Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence. United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5 Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5