Duties of health care facility that employs or allows person to engage in practice of surgical technology.

NRS 449.2419 Duties of health care facility that employs or allows person to engage in practice of surgical technology. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.24195, a health care facility that employs or otherwise allows a person to engage in the practice of surgical technology at the health care facility shall: 1. Ensure that each such person, including, without limitation, a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185, successfully completes not less than 15 hours annually of continuing education concerning the practice of surgical technology; and 2. Maintain records showing that the health care facility is in compliance with this section and NRS 449.24185, including, without limitation: (a) Records of continuing education completed by surgical technologists; (b) Records demonstrating that a surgical technologist employed by the health care facility possesses the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185; and (c) If the health care facility employs a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185 pursuant to subsection 3 of that section, records of the efforts of the health care facility to search for a sufficient number of surgical technologists who possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of that section before employing the person. (Added to NRS by 2017, 331)