South Carolina § 40-47-970 - Limitations on permissible medical act, task, or function PA may perform.

§ 40-47-970. Limitations on permissible medical act, task, or function PA may perform.

A PA may not:

(1) perform a medical act, task, or function which has not been listed 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 except as authorized in Section 40-47-965;

(4) perform a medical act, task, or function that is outside the usual practice of the supervising physician or outside the supervising physician's training or experience unless the board approves an exception pursuant to Section 40-47-195(D)(1)(d).

HISTORY: 2000 Act No. 359, SECTION 1; 2006 Act No. 244, SECTION 8; 2013 Act No. 28, SECTION 10, eff May 21, 2013; 2019 Act No. 32 (S.132), SECTION 2, eff August 11, 2019.

Effect of Amendment

The 2013 amendment, in subsection (3), inserted "except as authorized in Section 40-47-965".

2019 Act No. 32, SECTION 2, in the first undesignated paragraph, substituted "PA" for "physician assistant"; in (1), deleted "and" following "listed"; and in (4), inserted "or outside the supervising physician's training or experience unless the board approves an exception pursuant to Section 40-47-195(D)(1)(d)" at the end.

SECTIONS 40-47-975, 40-47-980. Repealed by 2013 Act No. 28, SECTION 12, eff May 21, 2013.

Editor's Note

Former SECTION 40-47-975 was titled On-the-job training requests and was derived from 2000 Act No. 359, SECTION 1.

Former SECTION 40-47-980 was titled Treatment of patients in chronic care and long-term care facilities and was derived from 2000 Act No. 359, SECTION 1; 2006 Act No. 244, SECTION 9.