New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-12.63. Requirements for practicing surgical technology
Terms Used In New Jersey Statutes 26:2H-12.63
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- person: includes corporations, companies, associations, societies, firms, partnerships and joint stock companies as well as individuals, unless restricted by the context to an individual as distinguished from a corporate entity or specifically restricted to one or some of the above enumerated synonyms and, when used to designate the owner of property which may be the subject of an offense, includes this State, the United States, any other State of the United States as defined infra and any foreign country or government lawfully owning or possessing property within this State. See New Jersey Statutes 1:1-2
a. has successfully completed a nationally or regionally accredited educational program for surgical technologists; or
b. holds and maintains a certified surgical technologist credential administered by the National Board of Surgical Technology and Surgical Assisting or its successor, or other nationally recognized credentialing organization; or
c. has completed an appropriate training program for surgical technology in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, or Coast Guard of the United States or in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps; or
d. provides evidence that the person was employed to practice surgical technology in a health care facility on the effective date of P.L.2011, c.148 (C. 26:2H-12.62 et seq.) or that the person was employed to practice surgical technology in a surgical practice, as defined in subsection g. of section 12 of P.L.1971, c.136 (C. 26:2H-12), on the effective date of section 1 of P.L.2017, c.283; or
e. is in the service of the federal government, to the extent that individual is performing surgical technology duties related to that service.
L.2011, c.148, s.2; amended 2019, c.226, s.1.