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SB 716 Physician assistants; provisions for practicing in hospital emergency departments.

Introduced by: John S. Edwards | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)

Physician assistants practicing in hospital emergency departments.  Authorizes physician assistants who are not employed to practice in emergency departments of hospitals to so practice, within the scope of their practice, while under continuous physician supervision, regardless of whether the supervising physician is physically present in the facility.  The supervising physician must retain exclusive supervisory control of and responsibility for the assistant and be available at all times for consultation with both the assistant and the emergency department physician.  The assistant must communicate the proposed disposition plan prior to the patient's discharge to both his supervising physician and the emergency department physician.


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