North Dakota Code § 43-42-05

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1. This chapter does not prohibit a person enrolled in a bona fide respiratory care training 
program from performing those duties essential for completion of a student's clinical 
service; provided, that the duties are performed under the supervision or direction of a 
physician or registered respiratory therapist and the person is identified as a "student 
respiratory therapist".
2. If examinations prepared by the national board for respiratory care are no longer 
available or become unacceptable to the board, the board may develop, approve, and 
use examinations for the licensure of registered respiratory therapists and certified 
respiratory therapists.
3. This chapter does not prevent a licensed and qualified member of another health care 
profession from performing any of the duties of a registered respiratory therapist , a 
certified respiratory therapist, or a registered polysomnographic technologist that are 
consistent with the accepted standards of that person's profession, provided the 
person is not represented as a registered respiratory therapist , certified respiratory 
therapist, or registered polysomnographic technologist.

4. This chapter does not prohibit self -care by a patient or the gratuitous care by a friend 
or member of the family who does not represent or hold out to be a registered or 
certified respiratory therapist.
5. This chapter does not prohibit a licensee under this chapter from performing advances 
in the art or techniques of the licensee's licensed profession learned through formal or 
specialized training.
6. This chapter does not prohibit an individual licensed or registered as a respiratory 
therapist in another state or country from providing respiratory care in an emergency in 
this state, providing respiratory care as a member of an organ harvesting team, or 
from providing respiratory care on board an ambulance as part of the ambulance 
treatment team.

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