2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 640A - Occupational Therapists
NRS 640A.120 - Qualifications for license.
To be eligible for licensing by the Board as an occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, an applicant must:
1. Be a natural person of good moral character.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 640A.130, have satisfied the academic requirements of an educational program approved by the Board. The Board shall not approve an educational program designed to qualify a person to practice as:
(a) An occupational therapist unless the program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs of the American Medical Association in collaboration with the American Occupational Therapy Association.
(b) An occupational therapy assistant unless the program is approved by the American Occupational Therapy Association.
3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 640A.130, have successfully completed:
(a) If the application is for licensing as an occupational therapist, 24 weeks; or
(b) If the application is for licensing as an occupational therapy assistant, 8 weeks,
of supervised experience approved by the Board. The Board shall not approve any supervised experience unless the experience was sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association or the educational institution at which the applicant satisfied the requirements of subsection 2.
4. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 640A.160 and 640A.170, pass an examination approved by the Board.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 988)
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