Section 326-C:8 Physical Agent Modalities; Certificates.
I. Licensed occupational therapists and licensed occupational therapy assistants are required to hold a certificate issued by the board authorizing their use of specified physical agent modalities.
II. Licensees who have been using specified physical agent modalities for 3 consecutive years and who have been educated or trained on the job in their use may continue their use without holding authorizing certificates, but such licensees shall meet the eligibility and application requirements for authorizing certificates no later than 6 months after the adoption of rules establishing such requirements.
III. The board is authorized to issue certificates authorizing the use of specified physical agent modalities to eligible licensed occupational therapists and licensed occupational therapy assistants. Such certificates are not required to be renewed.
IV. The board may suspend a certificate authorizing the use of specified physical agent modalities as one of the conditions of a conditional license issued pursuant to this chapter and RSA 328-F. Such a certificate shall be suspended or revoked when the underlying license is suspended or revoked.
Source. 2003, 310:1, eff. July 1, 2003.