NRS640A.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 an occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant unless the program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education of the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., or its successor organization.

      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, 16 weeks,

Ê of supervised fieldwork experience approved by the Board. The Board shall not approve any supervised experience unless the experience was sponsored by the American Occupational Therapy Association, Inc., or its successor organization, 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; A 2013, 277)