North Dakota § 43-48-01 Definitions

North Dakota Statutes

§ 43-48-01 — Definitions

North Dakota § 43-48-01

Title 43Occupations and Professions

Ch. 43-48Clinical Laboratory Personnel

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N.D. Cent. Code § 43-48-01 (2026).

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In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:

1."Board" means the North Dakota board of clinical laboratory practice.

2."Clinical laboratory" means a site where clinical laboratory testing is done.

3."Clinical laboratory personnel" means all clinical laboratory scientists or medical technologists or specialists, and clinical laboratory technicians or medical laboratory technicians working in a clinical laboratory, but does not include persons employed by a clinical laboratory to perform clerical duties or other duties classified as supportive functions not related to the direct performance of patient tests, such as phlebotomists, does not include clinical laboratory students, and does not include cytologists performing cytology procedures and histologists or

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In this chapter, unless the context or subject matter otherwise requires:
1. "Board" means the North Dakota board of clinical laboratory practice.
2. "Clinical laboratory" means a site where clinical laboratory testing is done.
3. "Clinical laboratory personnel" means all clinical laboratory scientists or medical
technologists or specialists, and clinical laboratory technicians or medical laboratory
technicians working in a clinical laboratory, but does not include persons employed by
a clinical laboratory to perform clerical duties or other duties classified as supportive
functions not related to the direct performance of patient tests, such as phlebotomists,
does not include clinical laboratory students, and does not include cytologists
performing cytology procedures and histologists or histotechnicians performing
histology procedures.
4. "Clinical laboratory student" means a person having qualified and enrolled in an
approved program of structured clinical education and who is seeking training and
experience required to meet minimum qualifications for a license by the board to
practice as a clinical laboratory person in this state.
5. "Clinical laboratory testing" means a microbiological, serological, chemical,
hematological, radiobioassay, biophysical, or immunological assay which is derived
from the human body, to provide information for diagnosis, prevention, or treatment of
a disease or assessment of a medical condition.
6. "Consumer" means a person who might use laboratory medicine services or the
services of its practitioners, but does not derive such person's livelihood from these
services.
7. "National certifying examination" means national examinations given to certify clinical
laboratory personnel and recognized by the board.
8. "Screening test" means a test measuring only the approximate value of the analyte
being tested and not used for diagnosis.
9. "Specimen" means any material derived from the human body for examination or other
procedure for the purpose of providing information for the diagnosis, prevention, or
treatment of any disease, impairment, or assessment of the health of humans.
10. "Structured clinical education" means a program accredited by an appropriate
accrediting agency to provide a predetermined amount of instruction and experience in
clinical laboratory, and approved or modified by the board.