WSR 16-06-008 PERMANENT RULES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH (Board of Naturopathy) [Filed February 18, 2016, 9:52 a.m., effective March 20, 2016] Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
Purpose: WAC 246-836-080 Continuing competency program for naturopathic physicians, the adopted rules implement provisions of RCW 43.70.442, amended in 2014 and 2015 by adding naturopathic physicians to the list of health care professions that must complete training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management. They also clarify completion frequency and deadlines.
Citation of Existing Rules Affected by this Order: Amending WAC 246-836-080.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 15-22-074 on November 2, 2015.
A final cost-benefit analysis is available by contacting Susan Gragg, Program Manager, Department of Health, P.O. Box 47852, Olympia, WA 98504-7852, phone (360) 236-4941, fax (360) 236-2901, e-mail susan.gragg@doh.wa.gov.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, Amended 1, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: December 18, 2015.
Chad Aschtgen, ND
Board Chair
AMENDATORY SECTION (Amending WSR 12-13-104, filed 6/20/12, effective 7/21/12)
WAC 246-836-080 Continuing competency program.
(1) Each licensed naturopathic physician((s)) must ((demonstrate completion of)) complete twenty hours of continuing education per year, as provided in chapter 246-12 WAC, Part 7. ((Only courses in diagnosis and therapeutics as listed in RCW 18.36A.040 shall be eligible for credit.))
(2) A license holder's first twenty hour continuing education requirement is due on the second renewal date after the license is issued. After that, it is due annually on the renewal date.
(3) As part of continuing education, a licensed naturopathic physician must complete a board-approved one-time training that is at least six hours long in suicide assessment, treatment, and management. This training must be completed by the end of the first full continuing education reporting period after January 1, 2016, or the first full continuing education reporting period after initial licensure, whichever is later.
(a) Until July 1, 2017, a board-approved training must be an empirically supported training in suicide assessment, including screening and referral, suicide treatment, and suicide management, and meet any other requirement in RCW 43.70.442.
(b) Beginning July 1, 2017, training accepted by the board must be on the department's model list developed in accordance with rules adopted by the department that establish minimum standards for training programs. The establishment of the model list does not affect the validity of training completed prior to July 1, 2017.
(c) A board-approved training must be at least six hours in length and may be provided in one or more sessions.
(d) The hours spent completing the training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management under this subsection count toward meeting any applicable continuing education requirements.
(e) Nothing in this subsection is intended to expand or limit the naturopathic scope of practice.
(4) In emergency situations, such as personal or family illness, the board may in its discretion, for good cause shown, waive all or part of the continuing education requirement for a particular one year period for an individual licensee. The board may require such verification of the emergency as is necessary to prove its existence.
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