Section 104-04-01-01 - Supervision of trainees1. Supervisors of trainees must be competent professional workers who hold a valid North Dakota hearing aid dealers license. The supervision of the trainees must entail the personal direct involvement of the supervisor in a way that will permit the supervisor to attest to the adequacy of the trainee's performance in the training experience. 2. Knowledge of the trainee's work may be obtained in a variety of ways, such as conferences, audio and videotape recordings, written reports, staffings, discussions with other persons who have participated in the training of the trainee, and must include direct observation of the trainee performing pure-tone air and bone conduction and speech audiometric evaluations, interpretation of audiograms, troubleshooting hearing instruments and sound-field testing of subjects, as well as taking case history information and performing such other activities considered important to the preparation for licensure. 3. A supervisor may have a maximum of three trainees concurrently. 4. All professional contacts between the supervisor and trainee must be entered in the trainee logbook. The trainee may not make any sale of a hearing instrument without first consulting with the supervisor and obtaining the supervisor's approval and signature of such approval in the supervisor's logbook prior to such sale. 5. A person who holds a temporary training permit is required to be under direct supervision until having passed one of the two exams of the licensing process. If the trainee has not successfully passed both examinations of the licensing process within the first year, a temporary training permit may be renewed or reissued once upon payment of the required fees. At this time the trainee is required to be under direct supervision of the trainee's supervisor until such time as both parts of the examination have been successfully passed. N.D. Admin Code 104-04-01-01
General Authority: NDCC 43-33-14
Law Implemented: NDCC 43-33-07, 43-33-08