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

Pennsylvania Statutes

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

Pennsylvania § 8628

Title 20DECEDENTS, ESTATES AND FIDUCIARIES

Ch. 86ANATOMICAL GIFTS

Subch.EXPRESS ANATOMICAL GIFTS

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20 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 8628 (2026).

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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.

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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.