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SB 683 Health professions; physician assistants.

Introduced by: J. Randy Forbes | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED: (all summaries)

Health professions; physician assistants. Authorizes the delegation and supervision of initial and ongoing evaluation and treatment of hospital patients, including emergency department patients, to physician assistants when performed under the direction, supervision and control of an appropriate licensee. The physician assistants, when practicing in a hospital, must report acute or significant findings or changes in a patient's clinical status to the supervising physician as soon as circumstances require and record these findings in the records. A patient with a life-threatening injury or illness must be transferred to a supervising physician. The supervising physician must review, prior to the patient's discharge, the services rendered to the patient by a physician assistant in a hospital's emergency department. A physician assistant practicing in an emergency department must be under the supervision of a physician who is present within the facility. Physician assistants practicing in hospitals must have signed protocols with the physician responsible for the patient, pursuant to regulations of the Board of Medicine.


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