007.05.14-4. Licensure.
AR ADC 007.05.14-4Arkansas Administrative CodeEffective: February 10, 2024
Effective: February 10, 2024
Ark. Admin. Code 007.05.14-4
007.05.14-4. Licensure.
3. A licensed perfusionist shall at all times hold the well-being of the patient to be paramount and shall not act in such a way as to bring the member's interested into conflict with the patient's interests. A licensed perfusionist shall deliver health care services without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, sex, age, religion, sexual preference or physical and/or mental condition.
6. A licensed perfusionist shall notify the Department of the suspension, probation, revocation or any final disciplinary action of any past or currently held permits, licenses, or certificates required to practice perfusion in this or any jurisdiction of the US, US territories, District of Columbia or the province of Canada within 30 days of final adjudication.
(ii) Of the 40 clinical activities above, a maximum of 15 activities may be documented intraoperative pump standbys or bypass first assistant. The standbys must be documentable in an audit. For each ECMO or VAD case, one case credit will be awarded for initiating and maintaining on shift (4 hours minimum), or managing one shift (8 hours minimum), or the duration of the case. Cases performed as the Clinical Instructor in an accredited program are considered primary perfusions and may be included in this category.
5. The period of completion of the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements shall be the 24 (twenty-four) month period beginning January 1 and ending December 31 of each renewal period. A licensee who has failed to obtain and report, in a timely fashion their continuing professional education and clinical activities shall not engage in the practice of perfusion unless an extension is obtained pursuant to number six (6) below of this rule.
8. Each licensee shall retain records documenting completion of the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements for a minimum of three years after the reporting period in which the continuing professional education and clinical activities was completed. The Board may conduct an audit of licensees to verify compliance with the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements. Licensees shall assist the board in its audit by providing timely and complete responses to the board's inquiries.
9. A licensee who cannot complete the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements because of personal illness, military service or other circumstances beyond the licensee's control which the board deems to be sufficient to impose an insurmountable hardship may apply for an extension of time to complete the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements. Any extension of time to complete the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements will be granted solely at the discretion of the board. The licensee must make a written application for extension of time prior to the January 31 deadline or completion of the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirement. A processing fee of $50.00 shall accompany the application for extension. The licensee shall provide full and complete written documentation of the grounds supporting the reasons for which an extension is sought. A licensee who requests an extension of time to complete the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements shall not engage in the active practice of perfusion unless the board grants the licensee's request for extension and the licensee received express written authorization to engage in the active practice of perfusion.
(a) The board, solely in its discretion, may grant an extension based on unforeseeable circumstances beyond the licensee's control which impose an insurmountable hardship precluding the licensee from obtaining the required continuing professional education and clinical activities. At a minimum, the licensee must provide written documentation explaining specifically and in detail the nature of the circumstances were unforeseeable and beyond the licensee's control, the period during which the circumstances were in existence, the number of continuing professional education units and clinical activities earned in the reporting period and the licensee's plan for completing the balance of the requirements. The board, in its discretion, shall determine if the situation described in the licensee's application constitutes unforeseeable circumstances beyond the licensee's control which impose an unsurmountable hardship precluding the licensee from obtaining the required continuing professional education and clinical activities.
(b) The licensee who is granted an extension of time shall complete the balance of his/her continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements no later than six months after return to work immediately following the end of the reporting period for which an extension was sought and shall provide the board with written documentation of his/her completion of the continuing education requirements no later than August 10 immediately following the end of the reporting period for which an extension was sought. Failure to complete the continuing professional education and clinical activities requirements by January 31st or to file the documentation with the board by August 10 shall constitute a violation of Section D.3.
10. A licensee who has failed to complete and report in a timely fashion the required units of continuing professional education and clinical activities and engages in the active practice of perfusion without the express written authority of the board shall be deemed to have engaged in the unauthorized practice of perfusion.
2. A provisional licensed perfusionist shall be under the supervision and direction of a licensed perfusionist at all times during which the provisional licensed perfusionist performs perfusion. Rules adopted by the board governing such supervision and direction may not require the immediate physical presence of the supervising licensed perfusionist.
I. Continuing Education and Clinical Activities. Licensed perfusionists and provisional licensed perfusionists shall meet the continuing education and clinical activities requirements of American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion or its successor. A Uniformed Service Member may be granted additional time to complete (See 4C.4b. and c.).
(a) Opportunity for licensee or applicant to have a hearing. Except as provided in Section 4.J.2.b.2. below, every licensee or applicant for a license shall be afforded notice and an opportunity to be heard before the board. The board shall have authority to take any action the effect of which would be to:
(b) Suspension of license without prior notice or hearing. If the Department finds that the continued practice by a licensee of the occupation or profession for which he/she is licensed will create an immediate hazard to the public, the board may suspend the license pending a hearing without prior notice of hearing.
L. Method of Serving Notice of Hearing. Any notice required may be served either personally or by an officer authorized by law to serve process, or by registered mail or certified mail with return receipt requested, directed to the licensee or applicant at his or her last known address. If notice is served personally, it shall be deemed to have been served at the time when the officer delivers the notice to the person addressed. Where notice is served by registered or certified mail, it shall be deemed to have been served on the date borne by the return receipt showing delivery of the notice to the addressee or refusal of the addressee to accept this notice. An attempt to serve notice at the last address of record shall constitute official notice.
Q. Rules of Evidence. In proceedings held pursuant to this rule, the Board may admit any evidence and may give probative effect to evidence that is of a kind commonly relied on by reasonably prudent men in the conduct of serious affairs. The Board may in their discretion exclude incompetent, irrelevant, immaterial and unduly repetitious evidence.
R. Manner and Time of Rendering Decision. After a hearing has been completed, the members of the Board shall proceed to consider the case and as soon as practicable shall render their decision. If the hearing was conducted by a hearing officer, the decision shall be rendered by the Board at a meeting where quorums of the members of the Board are present and participating in the decision. In any case the decision must be rendered within 90 days after the hearing.
S. Service of Written Decision. Within a reasonable time after the decision is rendered, the Board shall serve upon the person whose license is involved a written copy of the decision, either personally or by registered mail to the last known address. If the decision is sent by registered mail, it shall be deemed to have been served on the date borne on the return receipt.
T. Procedure Where Persons Fails to Request or Appear for Hearing. If a person duly notified fails to appear for a disciplinary hearing and no continuance has been granted, the Board, or its hearing officer, shall hear the evidence of such witnesses as may have appeared, and the Board shall proceed to consider the matter and dispose of it on the basis of the evidence before it in the manner required.
(a) Are receiving assistance through the Arkansas, or current state of residence equivalent, Medicaid Program, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutritional Program for Women, Infants, and Children (SSNP), the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program (TEA) or the Lifeline Assistance Program (LAP);
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Amended July 1, 2012; June 27, 2020; July 4, 2022; Feb. 10, 2024.
Current with amendments received through February 15, 2024. Some sections may be more current, see credit for details.
Ark. Admin. Code 007.05.14-4, AR ADC 007.05.14-4
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