Sec. 14. (a) The committee shall issue a student permit to an individual if the individual does the following:

(1) Submits the appropriate application to the committee.

(2) Pays the fee established by the board.

(3) Submits written proof to the committee that the individual is a student in good standing in a respiratory care school or program that has been:

(A) approved by the committee for purposes of section 8(b)(1) of this chapter;

(B) approved by the committee for purposes of section 10.1(a)(3)(B) of this chapter; or

(C) otherwise approved by the committee.

(4) Submits satisfactory evidence that the individual:

(A) does not have a conviction described in section 8(a)(1) of this chapter; and

(B) has not been the subject of a disciplinary action described in section 8(a)(2) of this chapter.

(b) The committee shall issue a student permit as soon as it is reasonably practicable after an individual fulfills the requirements of subsection (a).

(c) An individual who holds a student permit may only perform respiratory care procedures that have been part of a course:

(1) the individual has successfully completed in the respiratory care program designated under subsection (a)(3); and

(2) for which the successful completion has been documented and that is available upon request to the committee.

(d) The committee may expand the list of respiratory care procedures that an individual may perform under the individual's student permit to include additional respiratory care procedures that have been part of a course:

(1) that the individual has successfully completed in the respiratory care program designated under subsection (a)(3); and

(2) for which the individual's successful completion has been documented.

Upon request by the committee, the individual shall provide documentation of the successful completion of a course described in this subsection.

(e) The procedures permitted under subsections (c) and (d) may be performed only:

(1) on adult patients who are not critical care patients; and

(2) under the proximate supervision of a practitioner.

(f) A holder of a student permit shall meet in person at least one (1) time each working day with the permit holder's supervising practitioner or a designated respiratory care practitioner to review the permit holder's clinical activities. The supervising practitioner or a designated respiratory care practitioner shall review and countersign the entries that the permit holder makes in a patient's medical record not more than seven (7) calendar days after the permit holder makes the entries.

(g) A supervising practitioner may not supervise at one (1) time more than three (3) holders of student permits issued under this section.

(h) A student permit expires on the earliest of the following:

(1) The date the permit holder is issued a license under this article.

(2) The date the committee disapproves the permit holder's application for a license under this article.

(3) The date the permit holder ceases to be a student in good standing in a respiratory care program approved by the committee. The graduation of a student permit holder from a respiratory care program approved by the committee does not cause the student permit to expire under this subdivision.

(4) Sixty (60) days after the date that the permit holder graduates from a respiratory care program approved by the committee.

(5) The date that the permit holder is notified that the permit holder has failed the licensure examination.

(6) Two (2) years after the date of issuance.

As added by P.L.60-2000, SEC.20. Amended by P.L.288-2001, SEC.14.