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Nevada Physical Therapy Definitions

Approved Course - A course of study or training for continuing education which is:

    • Offered by a recognized provider of continuing education; and
    • Approved by the Board for a specific number of units of continuing education.

Board - The Nevada Physical Therapy Board.

Direct Supervision - The direction or assistance provided to a student who is enrolled in a program to become a PTA by a supervising PT who is present and immediately available on the premises where the clinical training of the student is conducted.

Dry Needling - A skilled technique performed by a PT using a single-use, single-insertion, sterile filiform needle, which is used to penetrate the skin or underlying tissue to effect change in body conditions, pain, movement, impairment and disability.

Gross Negligence - Conduct which constitutes an extreme departure from the standard of care required of a licensee under the circumstances and which proximately causes damage to a patient.

Immediate Supervision - That a person is present on-site and immediately available within the treatment area to give aid, direction and instruction to the person he or she is supervising.

Impaired Practitioner - A licensee who uses any controlled substance, dangerous drug or intoxicating liquid to an extent or in a manner which is dangerous or injurious to another person or which impairs the ability of the licensee to conduct the practice authorized by his or her license.

Hour - Not less than fifty (50) minutes nor more than sixty (60) minutes.

Licensee - A person licensed as a PT or PTA in accordance with the provisions of NAC 640 and chapter 640 of NRS.

Malpractice - Conduct which falls below the standard of care required of a licensee under the circumstances and which proximately causes damage to a patient.

Physical Therapist - A person who is licensed in Nevada.

Physical Therapist Assistant - A person who assists in the practice of physical therapy under the supervision of a licensed PT and who is licensed under the statutes and regulations.

Physical Therapist Technician - An unlicensed person who performs certain limited activities at the direction of the PT.

Physical Therapy - The specialty in the field of health which is concerned with prevention of disability and physical rehabilitation of persons having congenital or acquired disabilities.

Professionally Incompetent - If he or she:

    • Lacks the knowledge, skill or ability to discharge a professional obligation, or discharges a professional obligation while impaired; or
    • Consistently uses a procedure or treatment which constitutes a departure from the prevailing standard of the acceptable practice of physical therapy.

Supervising Physical Therapist - A PT who supervises a PTA, a physical therapist technician, a student who is completing a program for PTs or PTAs or a graduate of such a program.

Recognized Provider of Continuing Education - Any person recognized by the Board as competent to provide an approved course.

Unearned Fee- Any contract or arrangement entered into by a licensee to provide a person with a credit, gratuity, commission, professional discount or wage in consideration for the referral of a patient by that person to the PT.

Unit of Continuing Education - Ten (10) hours of instruction in an approved course.

Reference

NRS 640.011

NAC 640.001

NAC 640.670

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