La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XLV-2551

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XLV-2551 - Delegation of Authority

A. Authority is hereby delegated to the Advisory Committee on Respiratory Care to:

1. monitor all respiratory care education programs located in this state for the purpose of reporting and making recommendations to the board. To facilitate its responsibility committee may, among other items:

a. survey, by site visit or otherwise, programs and their affiliated hospitals, other institutions and associated clinical training sites;

b. request and obtain information from students, instructors, administrators or others associated with any hospital or clinical affiliate involved in such programs;

c. track enrollment, attrition, and retention statistics;

d. trend NBRC examination passage rates and scores; and

e. request information regarding examination passage and scores from the NBRC.

2. assist the board in the review of applicants' satisfaction of continuing professional education requirements for renewal of licensure under this Chapter.

B. To carry out its duties of §2551. A 2, the Advisory Committee is authorized to advise and assist the board in the review and approval of continuing professional education programs and licensee satisfaction of continuing professional education requirements for renewal of licensure, as prescribed by Subchapter G of this Chapter, including the authority and responsibility to:

1. evaluate organizations and entities providing continuing professional education programs for all licensed respiratory therapists and provide recommendations to the board on approval of such organizations and entities as sponsors of qualifying continuing professional education programs and activities pursuant to §2559 of these rules;

2. request and obtain from continuing professional education sponsoring organizations any information necessary to properly evaluate and make informed recommendations to the board relative to the appropriateness of the educational program;

3. review renewal applications selected for audit of continuing professional education or referred by the board to verify the accuracy of documentation and make recommendations to the board with respect to whether programs and activities evidenced by applicants for renewal of licensure comply with and satisfy the standards prescribed by these rules; and

4. request and obtain from applicants for renewal of licensure, as well as those referred by the board, such additional information as the advisory committee may deem necessary or appropriate to enable it to make the evaluations and provide the recommendations for which the committee is responsible.

C. In discharging the functions authorized under this Section the advisory committee and the individual members thereof shall, when acting within the scope of such authority, be deemed agents of the board. All information obtained by the advisory committee members pursuant to this Subchapter shall be considered confidential. Advisory committee members are prohibited from communicating, disclosing or in any way releasing to anyone, other than the board, any information or documents obtained when acting as agents of the board without first obtaining written authorization from the board.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XLV-2551

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Medical Examiners, LR 19:747 (June 1993), amended LR 22:1219 (December 1996), LR 25:2219 (November 1999), LR 38:58 (January 2012).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:3351-3361, 37:1270(B)(6) and 37:3357.