Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449.24195, a health care facility that employs or otherwise allows a person to engage in the practice of surgical technology at the health care facility shall:
1. Ensure that each such person, including, without limitation, a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185, successfully completes not less than 15 hours annually of continuing education concerning the practice of surgical technology; and
2. Maintain records showing that the health care facility is in compliance with this section and NRS 449.24185, including, without limitation:
(a) Records of continuing education completed by surgical technologists;
(b) Records demonstrating that a surgical technologist employed by the health care facility possesses the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185; and
(c) If the health care facility employs a person who does not possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of NRS 449.24185 pursuant to subsection 3 of that section, records of the efforts of the health care facility to search for a sufficient number of surgical technologists who possess the qualifications prescribed by subsection 1 of that section before employing the person.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 331)