§ 30-3E-12 — Scope of practice

(a) A license issued to a physician assistant by the appropriate state licensing board shall authorize the physician assistant to perform medical acts commensurate with their education, training, and experience and which they are competent to perform, consistent with the rules of the boards. Medical acts include prescribing, dispensing, and administering of controlled substances, prescription drugs, or medical devices.

(b) A physician assistant shall provide only those medical services for which they have been prepared by their education, training, and experience and are competent to perform, consistent with sound medical practice and that will protect the health and safety of the patient. This may occur in any health care setting, both hospital and outpatient in accordance with their practice notification.

(c) A physician assistant with an active practice notification may perform medical acts and/or procedures in collaboration with physicians which are consistent with the physician assistant’s education, training and experience, the collaborating physician’s scope of practice, and any credentialing requirements of the health care facility where the physician assistant holds an active practice notification.

(d) This article does not authorize a physician assistant to perform any specific function or duty delegated by this code to those persons licensed as chiropractors, dentists, dental hygienists, optometrists, or pharmacists, or certified as nurse anesthetists.

Legislative History

2021 Reg. Sess., SB714; 2019 Reg. Sess., SB668; 2019 Reg. Sess., SB1014; 2017 Reg. Sess., SB347; 2015 Reg. Sess., HB2776; 2014 Reg. Sess., SB425