2012 South Carolina Code of Laws
Title 40 - Professions and Occupations
Chapter 47 - PHYSICIANS AND MISCELLANEOUS HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS
Section 40-47-970 - Limitations on permissible medical act, task, or function physician assistant may perform.

A physician assistant may not:

(1) perform a medical act, task, or function which has not been listed and approved on the scope of practice guidelines;

(2) prescribe drugs, medications, or devices not specifically authorized by the supervising physician and documented in the written scope of practice guidelines;

(3) prescribe, under any circumstances, controlled substances in Schedule II;

(4) perform a medical act, task, or function that is outside the usual practice of the supervising physician.

HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 359, Section 1; 2006 Act No. 244, Section 8.