§ 8628 — Requirements for physician and nurse training relative to organ and tissue donation

The State Board of Medicine, the State Board of Osteopathic Medicine and the State Board of Nursing shall promulgate regulations requiring physicians, osteopathic physicians and professional nurses to complete a two-hour course on organ and tissue donation and recovery designed to address the clinical aspects of the donation and recovery process as a condition of license renewal. The course may include information about donation of hands, facial tissue and limbs and other vascularized composite allografts. The course shall be completed within five years of initial licensure or within five years of licensure renewal, whichever occurs first.

Legislative History

(Oct. 23, 2018, P.L.594, No.90, eff. imd.) 2018 Amendment.Act 90 added section 8628.