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483.803  Definitions.--As used in this part, the term:

(1)  "Board" means the Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel.

(2)  "Clinical laboratory" means a clinical laboratory as defined in s. 483.041(2).

(3)  "Clinical laboratory examination" means an examination performed on materials or specimens of the human body to provide information or materials for use in the diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of a disease or the identification or assessment of a medical or physical condition.

(4)  "Clinical laboratory personnel" includes a clinical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, blood gas analyst, or technician who performs or is responsible for laboratory test procedures, but the term does not include trainees, persons who perform screening for blood banks or plasmapheresis centers, phlebotomists, or persons employed by a clinical laboratory to perform manual pretesting duties or clerical, personnel, or other administrative responsibilities, or persons engaged in testing performed by laboratories regulated under s. 483.035(1) or exempt from regulation under s. 483.031(2).

(5)  "Clinical laboratory trainee" means any person having qualifying education who is enrolled in a clinical laboratory training program approved pursuant to s. 483.811 and who is seeking experience required to meet minimum qualifications for licensing in this state. Trainees may perform procedures under direct and responsible supervision of duly licensed clinical laboratory personnel, but they may not report test results.

(6)  "Department" means the Department of Health.

(7)  "Licensed practitioner of the healing arts" means a physician licensed pursuant to chapter 458, chapter 459, or chapter 460; a dentist licensed pursuant to chapter 466; or a person licensed pursuant to chapter 461 or chapter 462.

(8)  "Public health laboratory scientist" means any licensed director, supervisor, technologist, or technician engaged in laboratory testing of human specimens in a state, county, or municipal public health laboratory.

History.--s. 32, ch. 92-58; s. 175, ch. 94-218; s. 7, ch. 97-91; s. 164, ch. 97-264.