The Board shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this chapter, including, without limitation, regulations that establish:

1. The passing grades for the examinations required by NRS 640B.310 and 640B.320.

2. Appropriate criteria for determining whether an entity is an intercollegiate athletic association, interscholastic athletic association, professional athletic organization or amateur athletic organization.

3. The standards of practice for athletic trainers.

4. The requirements for continuing education for the renewal of a license of an athletic trainer. The requirements must be at least equivalent to the requirements for continuing education for the renewal of a certificate of an athletic trainer issued by the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification or its successor organization.

5. The qualifications an athletic trainer must obtain before he or she is authorized to perform dry needling, which must include, without limitation, the successful completion of not less than 150 hours of didactic education and training in dry needling approved by the Board. Such hours may include didactic education and training completed as part of a graduate-level program of study.

6. Procedures concerning the handling of needles used to perform dry needling, including, without limitation, procedures for the disposal of a needle after a single use.

7. Procedures to ensure that an athletic trainer does not engage in needle retention.

(Added to NRS by 2003, 897; A 2019, 1588)