Supervisor

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel

RULE NO: RULE TITLE
64B3-5.002: Supervisor

NOTICE OF CHANGE

Notice is hereby given that the following changes have been made to the proposed rule in accordance with subparagraph 120.54(3)(d)1., F.S., published in Vol. 33 No. 10, March 9, 2007 issue of the Florida Administrative Weekly.

The Board held a public hearing on this rule on March 2, 2007, in Jacksonville, Florida, and determined a change to this rule should be made.

The changes are as follows:

(1)  Qualification. Degrees or semester hours of academic credit required in this section shall be obtained at a regionally accredited college or university or by foreign education equated pursuant to subsection 64B3-6.002(6), F.A.C.  In order to be licensed as a supervisor, an applicant shall be licensed or meet the requirements for licensure as a technologist, and  have one hour of Board approved HIV/AIDS continuing education, a Board approved 2-hour course relating to the prevention of medical errors, which shall include root-cause analysis, error reduction and prevention, and patient safety, and one of the following:

 

Specialty	Option	Education	Training/Experience	Examination
(a)  through (b) No change.
Specialty	Option	Education	Training/Experience	Examination
(c) Histology.	1		Five years pertinent clinical laboratory experience in histology and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration within the previous 5 years.	HTL (ASC)
	2		Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience post-certification and 48 hours of Board approved continuing education in supervision and administration within the previous five years.	HT (ASCP)
	3		Five years pertinent clinical laboratory experience, and 48 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration within the previous 5 years, and licensure as a technologist in the specialty of histology.
Specialty	Option	Education	Training/Experience	Examination
(d) Andrology, Embryology.	1       1	Doctoral Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical or Biological Science. Bachelors Degree with 24 semester hours of academic science including 8 semester hours of biological sciences and 8 semester hours of chemical sciences.	One year of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration. Five years pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least two years experience at the Technologist level, 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.
	2       2	Doctoral Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical or Biological Science. Bachelors Degree with 24 semester hours of academic science including 8 semester hours of biological sciences and 8 semester hours of chemical sciences.	One year of pertinent clinical laboratory experience in the category in which licensure is sought.   Five years pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least two years experience at the Technologist level.	TS(ABB) for specialty sought.     TS(ABB)
	3	Masters Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science.	Three years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.
	4	Masters Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science.	Three years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 1 year experience in the category in which licensure is sought.	TS(ABB) for specialty sought.
	5	Bachelors Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science.	Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 2 years experience in the category in which licensure is sought, and 25 hours of Board-approved hours continuing education in supervision and administration.
	6	Bachelors Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science.	Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 2 years experience in the category in which licensure is sought.	TS(ABB) for specialty sought.
(e)  No change.
Specialty	Option	Education	Training/Experience	Examination
(f) Molecular Pathology	1	Doctoral Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science.	One year pertinent clinical laboratory experience in the category in which licensure is sought, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.	The Molecular Diagnostics examination given by ABB.
	2       2	Doctoral Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical, or Biological Science. Masters Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical or Biological Science.	One year pertinent clinical laboratory experience in the category in which licensure is sought.   Three years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.	The Molecular Diagnostics examination given by ABB.   The Molecular Diagnostics examination given by ABB.
	3       3	Masters Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical or Biological Science.   Bachelors Degree with 16 semester hours of academic science.	Three years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration. Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 2 years experience at the Technologist level and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.	The Molecular Diagnostics examination given by ABB.
	4	Masters Degree in Clinical Laboratory, Chemical or Biological Science.	Three years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 1 year experience in the category in which licensure is sought.	Diagnostics examination given by ABB.
	5	Bachelors Degree with 16 semester hours of academic science.	Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 2 years experience at the Technologist level and 25 hours of Board-approved continuing education in supervision and administration.
	6	Bachelors Degree with 16 semester hours of academic science.	Five years of pertinent clinical laboratory experience, with at least 2 years experience at the Technologist level.	The Molecular Diagnostics examination given by ABB.

 

(2) In lieu of one year of experience required by subsection 64B3-5.002(1), F.A.C., an applicant may use Board certification obtained by examination in one or more of the laboratory specialties through the Board of Registry of the ASCP, National Credentialing Agency of Laboratory Personnel, National Registry of Clinical Chemistry, American Academy of Microbiology, American Medical Technologists, American Board of Misanalysis Biocatalysts, American Association of Biocatalysts, American Board of Biocatalysts, American Board of Clinical Chemistry, American Board of Medical Microbiology, American Board of Medical Genetics, American Board of Medical Laboratory Immunology, or American Board of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics.  This certification shall not substitute for the one year of pertinent clinical laboratory experience in an individual category for which licensure is sought.

(3) No change.

(4) The Board approved Supervision and Administration examinations, used in lieu of the required 25 hours of supervision and administration continuing education are:

(a) through (g) No change.

(h) The Specialist in Molecular Diagnostics examination administered by the American Board of Bioanalysis. The Specialist in Andrology/Embryology Examination administered by the American Board of Bioanalysis.

(i) The National Registry Certified Chemists (NRCC).

THE PERSON TO BE CONTACTED REGARDING THE PROPOSED RULE IS: Joe Baker, Jr., Executive Director, Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel, 4052 Bald Cypress Way, Bin # C07, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-3257