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...ential exposure incidents. (E) "Public health care worker" means a person who is employed by a public employer to provide health services that carry with them the potential for exposure incidents, including a person employed by a public hospital or other public health care facility, a person employed by a public employer to provide home health care, and a person employed by a public employer as a firefighter, emerge...

...e administrator shall provide advice to public employers with regard to their implementation of the requirements established by the rule and standard adopted under this section and the requirements of section 4167.28 of the Revised Code.

...section, each public employer of public health care workers shall do all of the following: (1) Include, as part of the employer's engineering and work practice controls, needleless systems, sharps that are manufactured with engineered sharps injury protection, and other devices that comply with the United States occupational safety and health administration's bloodborne pathogen standards; (2) Develop and implement...

...n this chapter: (A) "Certified mental health assistant" means an individual who, under physician supervision, provides mental health care by engaging in any of the activities authorized under section 4772.09 of the Revised Code. (B) "Controlled substance" has the same meaning as in section 3719.01 of the Revised Code. (C) "Drug database" means the database established and maintained by the state board of pharma...

... able to function as a certified mental health assistant, or use any words or letters indicating or implying that the person is a certified mental health assistant, without a current, valid license to practice as a certified mental health assistant issued pursuant to this chapter. (B) No person shall practice as a certified mental health assistant without the supervision, control, and direction of a physician. (C...

... guard, marine corps, air force, public health service, or marine hospital service of the United States while so serving; (2) Employed by the veterans administration of the United States while so employed. (B) Prevent any person from performing any of the services a certified mental health assistant may be authorized to perform, if the person's professional scope of practice established under any other chapter of...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant shall file with the state medical board a written application on a form prescribed and supplied by the board. The application shall include all the information the board considers necessary to process the application, including evidence satisfactory to the board that the applicant meets the requirements specified in division (B) of this section. At the time a...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant shall comply with sections 4776.01 to 4776.04 of the Revised Code.

...(A) To constitute a certified mental health assistant program for purposes of section 4772.04 of the Revised Code, an education program approved by the chancellor of higher education shall be at least thirty credit hours of graduate coursework that includes courses in each of the following areas: (1) Psychiatric diagnoses included in the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders published by the America...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant, the secretary of the board shall register the applicant as a certified mental health assistant and issue to the applicant a license to practice as a certified mental health assistant. The license shall be valid for a two-year period unless revoked or suspended, shall expire on the date that is two years after the date of issuance, and may be renewed for additi...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant, the state medical board shall issue a duplicate license to replace one that is missing or damaged, to reflect a name change, or for any other reasonable cause. The fee for a duplicate license is thirty-five dollars.

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant shall, on or before the license's expiration date, apply to the state medical board for renewal. The board shall provide renewal notices to license holders at least one month prior to the expiration date. Renewal applications shall be submitted to the board in a manner prescribed by the board. Each application shall be accompanied by a biennial renewal fee sp...

...cense to practice as a certified mental health assistant, an applicant who has been granted physician-delegated prescriptive authority by the physician supervising the certified mental health assistant is subject to both of the following: (1) The applicant shall complete every two years at least twelve hours of continuing education in pharmacology obtained through a program or course approved by the state medical b...

...t been practicing as a certified mental health assistant as either of the following: (a) An active practitioner; (b) A student in an academic program as described in section 4772.04 of the Revised Code. (B) Before issuing a license to an applicant subject to this section or restoring a license to good standing for an applicant subject to this section, the state medical board may impose terms and conditions incl...

...n psychiatric association, or a similar publication if designated by the board; (3) Engage in electroconvulsive therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, or any other intervention designated as invasive by the board's rules.

...A certified mental health assistant may provide telehealth services in accordance with section 4743.09 of the Revised Code.

...pervision agreement, a certified mental health assistant may delegate performance of a task to implement a patient's plan of care or, if the conditions in division (C) of this section are met, may delegate administration of a drug. Subject to division (D) of section 4772.03 of the Revised Code, delegation may be to any person. The certified mental health assistant must be physically present at the location where the ...

...rvision of one or more certified mental health assistants licensed under this chapter, a physician shall enter into a supervision agreement with each certified mental health assistant who will be supervised. A supervision agreement may apply to one or more certified mental health assistants, but, except as provided in division (B)(5) of this section, may apply to not more than one physician. The supervision agreement...

...n psychiatric association, or a similar publication if designated by the state medical board. (3)(a) After the initial diagnosis, the supervising physician shall personally and actively review the certified mental health assistant's professional activities, on not less than a weekly basis. (b)(i) Except as provided in division (A)(3)(b)(ii) of this section, the supervising physician must reevaluate the patient no...

...scriptive authority, a certified mental health assistant is subject to section 4772.13 of the Revised Code and all of the following: (1) The certified mental health assistant shall exercise physician-delegated prescriptive authority only to the extent that the physician supervising the certified mental health assistant has granted that authority. (2)(a) The certified mental health assistant shall comply with all ...

...(B) of this section, a certified mental health assistant may prescribe to a patient a controlled substance only if the controlled substance is one of the following: (1) Buprenorphine, but only for a patient that is actively engaged in opioid use disorder treatment; (2) A benzodiazepine, but only in the following circumstances: (a) For a patient diagnosed by the supervising physician as having a chronic anxiety ...

...(A) A certified mental health assistant who has been granted physician-delegated prescriptive authority by the physician supervising the certified mental health assistant may personally furnish to a patient samples of drugs and therapeutic devices that are included in the certified mental health assistant's physician-delegated prescriptive authority, subject to all of the following: (1) The amount of the sample fur...

... Revised Code. (B) A certified mental health assistant shall comply with section 3719.064 of the Revised Code and rules adopted under section 4772.13 of the Revised Code when treating a patient with medication-assisted treatment or proposing to initiate such treatment. (C) A certified mental health assistant who fails to comply with this section shall treat not more than thirty patients at any one time with medic...

...enses to practice as a certified mental health assistant; (2) Application fees for an initial or renewed license; (3) Rules governing physician-delegated prescriptive authority for certified mental health assistants; (4) Rules establishing quality assurance standards for certified mental health assistants, including a process to be used for all of the following: (a) Routine review by the supervising physician...

...er of immediate and serious harm to the public, they may recommend that the board suspend the individual's license to practice without a prior hearing. Written allegations shall be prepared for consideration by the board. The board, on review of the allegations and by an affirmative vote of not fewer than six of its members, excluding the secretary and supervising member, may suspend a license without a prior heari...