North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 21 - OCCUPATIONAL LICENSING BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS
Chapter 32 - NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAL BOARD
Subchapter S - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS
Section .0200 - PHYSICIAN ASSISTANT REGISTRATION
Section 32S .0201 - DEFINITIONS
Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024
The following definitions apply to this Subchapter:
(1) "Board" means the North Carolina Medical Board.
(2) "Examination" means the Physician Assistant National Certifying Examination.
(3) "Family member" means a spouse, parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, sibling, aunt, uncle or first cousin, or persons to the same degree by marriage.
(4) "Physician Assistant" means a person licensed by the Board under the provisions of G.S. 90-9.3.
(5) "Physician Assistant License" means approval for the physician assistant to perform medical acts, tasks, or functions under North Carolina law.
(6) "Physician Assistant Educational Program" is the educational program set out in G.S. 90-9.3(a)(1).
(7) "License Renewal" means paying the annual fee and providing the information requested by the Board as outlined in this Subchapter.
(8) "Supervise" or "Supervision" means the physician's function of overseeing the medical acts performed by a physician assistant.
(9) "Supervisory Arrangement" is the written statement that describes the medical acts, tasks, and functions delegated to the physician assistant by the primary supervising physician appropriate to the physician assistant's education, qualification, training, skills, and competence.
(10) "Supervising Physician" means the licensed physician who shall provide on-going supervision, consultation, and evaluation of the medical acts performed by the physician assistant as defined in the in the Supervisory Arrangement. The physician may serve as a primary supervising physician or as a back-up supervising physician.
(11) "Volunteer practice" means performance of medical acts, tasks, or functions without expectation of any form of payment or compensation.
Authority
G.S.
90-9.3;
90-18(c)(13);
90-18.1;
Eff.
September 1, 2009;
Amended Eff. May 1, 2015;
Pursuant
to G.S.
150B-21.3A rule is necessary without
substantive public interest Eff. March 1,
2016.