LAC 46:XLV.2575. Supervision of Student [Formerly §5515]

A. A person pursuing a course of study leading to certification or registry in respiratory care shall engage in the practice of respiratory care only under the supervision of a licensed respiratory therapist or a physician who actively practices respiratory care, as provided in this Section. B. A licensed respiratory therapist or a physician who undertakes to supervise a student shall: 1. undertake to concurrently supervise not more than four students; 2. personally evaluate every patient prior to the provision of any respiratory care treatment or procedure by a student; 3. assign to a student only such respiratory care measures, treatments, procedures and functions as such licensed respiratory therapist or physician has documented that the student by education and training is capable of performing safely and effectively; 4. provide continuous and immediate on-premises direction to and supervision of a student and be readily available at all times to provide advice, instruction, and assistance to the student and to the patient during respiratory care treatment given by a student; 5. not permit a student to perform any invasive procedure or any life-sustaining or critical respiratory care, including therapeutic, diagnostic or palliative procedures, except under the direct and immediate supervision, and in the physical presence of, the supervising therapist and/or physician; and 6. provide and perform periodic evaluation of every patient administered to by a student and make modifications and adjustments in the patient's respiratory care treatment plan, including those portions of the treatment plan assigned to the student.