NAC637.148. Completion and proof of required hours of training and experience.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, an applicant for a license as a dispensing optician must furnish proof on a form provided by the Board and signed by the supervisor of the applicant that he or she has completed the following hours of training and experience relating to the fitting and filling of prescriptions for contact lenses required pursuant to subparagraph (2) of paragraph (g) of subsection 1 of NRS 637.100:

     (a) Thirty hours of contact lens fitting;

     (b) Twenty hours of follow-up care relating to contact lens fitting;

     (c) Twenty hours of instrumentation;

     (d) Fifteen hours of insertion and removal of contact lenses;

     (e) Ten hours of inspection of contact lenses; and

     (f) Five hours of filling prescriptions for contact lenses.

     2. The completion of one or more courses of instruction in contact lens fitting or contact lens theory in a school which offers a degree of associate in applied science for studies in ophthalmic dispensing approved by the Board may count toward the completion of the hours of training and experience described in subsection 1.

     3. As an alternative to the form described in subsection 1, the Board may request and accept other documentation proving that an applicant has completed the hours of training and experience described in subsection 1.

     4. As used in subsection 1, “supervisor” means an ophthalmologist, an optometrist or a dispensing optician.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Dispensing Opt. by R108-04, eff. 12-1-2004; A by R073-12, 6-3-2013)