2016 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 216B - LICENSURE AND REGULATION OF HEALTH FACILITIES AND SERVICES .175 Services by a physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse for patient admitted to acute care or psychiatric hospital -- Transferability of history and physical examination to another licensed level of care within same hospital -- Administrative regulations.
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216B.175 Services by a physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse
for patient admitted to acute care or psychiatric hospital -- Transferability of
history and physical examination to another licensed level of care within same
hospital -- Administrative regulations.
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(2)
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(4)
A physician assistant, credentialed under KRS Chapter 311, when those duties and
responsibilities are within the scope of training received in an approved program
and within the scope of the supervising physician's practice, or an advanced practice
registered nurse licensed under KRS Chapter 314, may:
(a) Perform a history and physical examination for a patient admitted to an acute
care or psychiatric hospital licensed under this chapter; and
(b) Order and review continuation of restraints and seclusion as a health care
practitioner in accordance with 42 C.F.R. 482.13.
A history and physical examination shall be performed no more than thirty (30)
days before or twenty-four (24) hours after a patient is admitted to an acute care or
psychiatric hospital licensed under this chapter.
The history and physical examination that has been performed in compliance with
subsection (2) of this section is transferable to another licensed level of care within
the same hospital.
The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall promulgate administrative
regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to establish the content of the
history and physical examination required by subsection (2) of this section
performed in an acute or psychiatric hospital that shall be used by the licensing
entity.
Effective: July 15, 2010
History: Amended 2010 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 39, effective July 15, 2010. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 80, sec. 1, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2005 Ky. Acts ch.
99, sec. 506, effective June 20, 2005. -- Created 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 422, sec. 2,
effective July 14, 2000.
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