Can a medical assistant give injections in New Hampshire?
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The board may take disciplinary action against a licensee who has employed or allowed an unlicensed person to practice in the licensee’s office.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:17, VI(e) · verified Sep 3, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Regular or frequent consultation by an unlicensed person, as determined by the licensing board, shall constitute the practice of medicine without a license.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:21, II (consultation exception) · verified Sep 3, 2026
The board may take disciplinary action against a licensee who has willfully or repeatedly violated any provision of this chapter or any substantive rule of the board.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:17, VI(i) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Medication nursing assistant means a licensed nursing assistant holding a currently valid certificate authorizing the delegation to the nursing assistant of tasks of medication administration.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §326-B:2, VI · verified Sep 3, 2026
Esthetics means giving facials, applying makeup, giving therapeutic skin care treatments, removing superfluous hair, or applying eyelashes to any person; beautifying the face, neck, arms, and shoulders, by use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams; massaging, cleansing, or stimulating the face, neck, arms, and shoulders, by means of the hands, devices, apparatus, or appliances, with the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions, or creams; or providing pedicure and manicure services.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §313-A:1, VIII (“Esthetics” defined) · verified Sep 3, 2026
Any person is regarded as practicing medicine who diagnoses, treats, performs surgery, or prescribes any treatment of medicine for any disease or human ailment, and surgery means any procedure, including but not limited to laser, in which human tissue is cut, shaped, burned, vaporized, or otherwise structurally altered, except that the section does not apply to any person to whom authority is given by any other statute to perform acts which might otherwise be deemed the practice of medicine.
N.H. Rev. Stat. §329:1 · verified Sep 8, 2026
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