Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) The activities
of the holder of a hearing aid dealers and fitters trainee permit, while
engaged in the practice of dealing in or fitting of hearing aids as defined by
section 4747.01 of the Revised Code,
shall be supervised by an individual who is a licensed hearing aid dealer or
fitter. It shall be the responsibility of the trainee to maintain communication
with the supervisor and to inform said supervisor of all acts and deeds in the
pursuance of selling and/or fitting hearing aids. "Acts and deeds" include, but
are not limited to, the following: meeting with a user or potential user;
performing tests as defined in rule
4747-1-19 of the Administrative
Code; taking of an earmold impression(s); and fitting and/or selling of hearing
aids.
(B) "Supervision," as
required by section 4747.10 of the Revised Code,
means that:
(1) During the effective period of
the trainee permit, the trainee and that trainee's supervisor shall co-sign,
with a signature and license number, all forms, reports of audiometric and
other tests, and any other documents prepared by the trainee or the supervisor
in conjunction with the trainee in the process of testing human hearing or
fitting or selling a hearing aid or hearing aids.
(2) During the ninety calendar days
immediately following the effective date of the trainee permit as shown
thereon, a supervisor must be physically present with a trainee who is engaged
in the fitting or selling of hearing aids.
(3)
Prior to
submitting an application for a hearing aid fitter license or upon expiration
of the trainee permit or a renewal thereof, the trainee permit holder shall
submit to the board a "Trainee Supervision Report" attesting that the trainee
permit holder and supervisor have complied with all the supervision
requirements under section
4747.10 of the Revised Code and
this rule.
(4) In order to ensure
that meaningful supervision is available to each person engaged in training to
become a licensed hearing aid dealer and fitter, no person, firm, partnership,
association or corporation shall employ or have any form of relationship with
more persons who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters trainee permits than it
employs persons who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters licenses. Any licensed
hearing aid dealer and fitter acting as a supervisor must be licensed for at
least two years. No one licensee may supervise more than two trainees at any
time. For the purpose of interpreting this rule, all persons in an organization
who hold hearing aid dealers and fitters licenses shall be considered
employees. However, no trainee shall be required to leave the place of
employment simply because the licensed supervisor leaves. The trainee shall be
permitted to work under the supervision of another licensed person until the
board is properly notified of the change in supervision within three working
days. No trainee may serve under more than one supervisor at a time.
(5) It
shall be the responsibility of the trainee to submit to the supervisor all
testing and sales documents pertinent to each sale, whether consummated or not.
Failure to do so shall be considered a violation of division (M) of section
4747.12 of the Revised Code and
paragraph (C)(2) of rule
4747-1-15 of the Administrative
Code.
