New Mexico Register / Volume XXXV,
Issue 23 / December 10, 2024
This is an
amendment to 16.23.12 NMAC, Section 8. effective 12/10/2024.
16.23.12.8 CONTINUING
EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: The completion
of 20 clock hours of continuing education is a requirement for biennial license
renewal or license reactivation.
A. Continuing
education hours must be directly related to respiratory therapy, pulmonary
function technology, or related inter-disciplinary areas of health care.
B. All licensees
must complete at least one hour of ethics related continuing education in the
license renewal cycle.
C. Effective October 25, 2025, all licensees must complete at
least one hour of human trafficking related continuing education in the license
renewal cycle.
[C.] D. The department may consult with the board to resolve questions as
to appropriate continuing education hours.
(1) The department
shall be the final authority on acceptance of any educational activity
submitted by a licensee or a sponsor for approval.
(2) Each respiratory
care practitioner must participate in at least 20 clock hours of continuing education activities every
renewal cycle, or as provided by 16.23.12.12 NMAC and 16.23.12.13 NMAC.
[D.] E.
A minimum of [twelve] 12
clock hours of the [twenty] 20 clock hours of continuing
education must be consistent with American Medical Association Category I,
which includes any of the following types of educational offerings:
(1) lecture - a discourse given for instruction before an audience or through
teleconference;
(2) panel - a presentation of a number of views by
several professionals on a given subject with none of the views considered a
final solution;
(3) workshop - a series of meetings for intensive, hands on, study or discussion, in a
specific area of interest;
(4) seminar - a directed advanced
study or discussion in a specific field of interest;
(5) symposium - conference of more
than a single session organized for the purpose of discussion of a specific
subject from various viewpoints and by various presenters;
(6) distance education - includes such enduring materials as
text, internet or CD, provided the provider has included an
independently scored test as part of the learning package; and
(7) NBRC-awarded continuing
education credit for successful completion of re-credentialing examination(s)
for renewal of credential as a CRT (if the CRT was issued prior to January 1,
2018) or RRT.
[16.23.12.8
NMAC - Rp, 16.23.12.8 NMAC, 04/21/2022, A, 12/10/2024]