633.432 - Physician assistants: Authorized services. - Nevada Statutes

633.432  Physician assistants: Authorized services.

      1.  A physician assistant may perform such medical services as:

      (a) The physician assistant is authorized to perform by his or her supervising osteopathic physician; and

      (b) Are within the supervising osteopathic physician’s scope of practice.

      2.  The Board and supervising osteopathic physician shall limit the authority of a physician assistant to prescribe controlled substances to those schedules of controlled substances that the supervising osteopathic physician is authorized to prescribe pursuant to state and federal law.

      (Added to NRS by 2007, 1831)