637B.080 - Applicability.
637B.080 Applicability. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to:
1. Any physician or any person who is working with patients or clients under the direct, immediate supervision of a physician and for whom the physician is directly responsible.
2. Any hearing aid specialist who is licensed pursuant to chapter 637A of NRS and who is acting within the scope of the license.
3. Any person who:
(a) Holds a current credential as an audiologist or a speech pathologist issued by the Department of Education;
(b) Is employed as an audiologist or a speech pathologist by a federal agency or the Department of Health and Human Services;
(c) Is a graduate student intern enrolled in a program or school approved by the Board and is pursuing a graduate degree in audiology or speech pathology;
(d) Is a registered nurse employed as a school nurse; or
(e) Holds a current certificate from the Council on the Education of the Deaf as a teacher,
Ê and who does not engage in the private practice of audiology or of speech pathology in this State.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 1253; A 1987, 1677; 2005, 632)
NRS 637B.090 Use of title “certified hearing aid audiologist.” Nothing in this chapter prohibits the use of the title “certified hearing aid audiologist” by a person who has been so certified by the National Hearing Aid Society.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 1254)