43-65-02. Requirements

43-65-02. Requirements 1. An advertisement for health care services which names a health care practitioner must identify the type of license held pursuant to the definitions under this chapter. The advertisement may not contain deceptive or misleading information. 2. A health care practitioner providing health care services in this state shall post conspicuously and communicate affirmatively the practitioner's specific licensure as defined under this chapter. A health care practitioner shall wear a photo identification name tag during all patient encounters which must include a recent photograph of the practitioner, the practitioner's name, and the type of license. The name tag must be of sufficient size and be worn in a conspicuous manner so as to be visible and apparent. 3. A health care practitioner is not subject to the name tag requirement if: a. The health care practitioner is working in a nonpatient care setting and does not have any direct patient care interactions; b. The wearing of identification would jeopardize the health care practitioner's safety; c. The health care practitioner is in an office in which the license type and names of all health care practitioners working in the office are displayed on the office door and each health care practitioner working in the office has the practitioner's license posted prominently in the office and readily visible to a patient; or d. The office is an office of a solo health care practitioner, or of a single type of health care provider.