N.J. Admin. Code § 8:44-2.1
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. All terms not defined herein shall have the meaning given them in the New Jersey Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act, 45:9-42.2 6 et seq.
"Accredited" means having the approval conferred upon schools, institutions, or programs where appropriate by a nationally recognized accrediting agency or association as determined by the U.S. Commissioner of Education and/or New Jersey State Board of Higher Education.
"Consultation" means a communication between two or more physicians concerning the diagnosis or treatment in a given case. Consultation would, when indicated, include history taking, examination of the patient, and rendering to the attending physician an opinion concerning diagnosis and/or treatment.
"Personal and direct supervision" means that a qualified general supervisor or supervisory cytotechnologist, where applicable, is present in the immediate bench area when laboratory procedures are being performed.
"Physician" means any person licensed to practice medicine and surgery by the New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners.
"Radioassay" means the analysis following the administration of a radioactive material to a patient and the subsequent analysis of the body fluid, or excreta in order to evaluate body function. This definition includes scanning and in vivo measurements.
"Subsequent to graduation" means laboratory training and experience acquired after receipt of the degree specified. However, experience as a technologist in a licensed clinical laboratory, which was gained prior to acquiring such degree, may be substituted on an equivalency basis of 1.5 years of such experience for every 1 year of postdegree training and experience; and experience as a general supervisor in a licensed clinical laboratory, which was gained prior to acquiring such degree, may be substituted on a 1 for 1 basis.
"Substitution of education for experience" means that a minimum of 30 semester hours of credit from an approved school of medical technology, or towards a bachelor's degree from an accredited institution with a chemical, physical, or biological science as the major subject is considered equivalent to 2 years of experience. Additional education is equated at the rate of 15 semester hours of credit for 1 year of experience.
"Trainee" means an individual who is gaining the required years of clinical laboratory on-the-job experience to qualify as a technician and/or technologist and is participating in a structured training program approved by the Department of Health, designed to provide the trainee with a broad range of laboratory procedures of progressive technical difficulty. A training program compatible with that of a nationally recognized accrediting society, board or organization is acceptable.
"True duplicate" means a carbon or other mechanical copy.
N.J. Admin. Code § 8:44-2.1