633.466 - Physician assistants: Supervision by physician. - Nevada Statutes

633.466  Physician assistants: Supervision by physician.

      1.  A physician assistant may be supervised by a physician licensed to practice medicine in this State pursuant to chapter 630 of NRS in place of his or her supervising osteopathic physician if:

      (a) The physician assistant works in a geographical area where the physician assistant can be conveniently supervised only by such a physician; and

      (b) The supervising osteopathic physician and the physician licensed pursuant to chapter 630 of NRS agree to the arrangement.

      2.  A physician assistant so supervised is not a physician assistant for the purposes of chapter 630 of NRS solely because of that supervision.

      3.  The State Board of Osteopathic Medicine shall adopt jointly with the Board of Medical Examiners regulations necessary to administer the provisions of this section.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 574; A 2007, 1837)