2006 Nebraska Revised Statutes - § 71-1,107.16 — Physician assistants; terms, defined.

Section 71-1,107.16
Physician assistants; terms, defined.

For purposes of sections 71-1,107.15 to 71-1,107.30, unless the context otherwise requires:

(1) Approved program means a program for the education of physician assistants which the board formally approves;

(2) Board means the Board of Medicine and Surgery;

(3) Department means the Department of Health and Human Services Regulation and Licensure;

(4) Physician assistant means any person who graduates from a program approved by the Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Programs or its predecessor or successor agency and the board, who satisfactorily completes a proficiency examination, and whom the board, with the concurrence of the department, approves to perform medical services under the supervision of a physician or group of physicians approved by the board to supervise such assistant;

(5) Supervision means the ready availability of the supervising physician for consultation and direction of the activities of the physician assistant. Contact with the supervising physician by telecommunication shall be sufficient to show ready availability if the board finds that such contact is sufficient to provide quality medical care. The level of supervision may vary by geographic location as provided in section 71-1,107.17;

(6) Trainee means any person who is currently enrolled in an approved program;

(7) Proficiency examination means the initial proficiency examination approved by the board for the licensure of physician assistants, including, but not limited to, the examination administered by the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants or other national organization established for such purpose that is recognized by the board;

(8) Supervising physician means a (a) board-approved physician who utilizes an approved physician assistant or (b) backup physician;

(9) Backup physician means a physician designated by the supervising physician to ensure supervision of the physician assistant in the supervising physician's absence. A backup physician shall be subject to the same requirements imposed upon the supervising physician when the backup physician is acting as a supervising physician; and

(10) Committee means the Physician Assistant Committee created in section 71-1,107.25.

Source:

Laws 1973, LB 101, § 2

R.S.Supp.,1973, § 85-179.05

Laws 1985, LB 132, § 2

Laws 1993, LB 316, § 1

Laws 1996, LB 1044, § 436

Laws 1996, LB 1108, § 8

Laws 1999, LB 828, § 92

Laws 2001, LB 209, § 8

~Reissue Revised Statutes of Nebraska