58-81-103 - Eligibility for volunteer health care practitioner license -- Delegation of service agreement. - Utah Statutes

58-81-103. Eligibility for volunteer health care practitioner license -- Delegation ofservice agreement.
(1) A health care practitioner is eligible to apply to the division and board for a volunteerhealth care practitioner license if the health care practitioner:
(a) certifies to the division and board that the applicant will be engaged exclusively involunteer health care services; and
(b) completes an application for a volunteer health care practitioner license, whichincludes documentation:
(i) of professional education, exams passed, and graduation;
(ii) of practice history;
(iii) of a qualified location for which the health care practitioner will be practicing;
(iv) identifying the supervising health care practitioner and the supervising health carepractitioner's delegation of service agreement with the volunteer practitioner; and
(v) that the applicant has:
(A) previously been issued an unrestricted license to practice in Utah or another state ofthe United States;
(B) never been the subject of any significant disciplinary action in any jurisdiction; and
(C) is in good health and does not have a condition which would impair the health carepractitioner's ability to practice with reasonable skill and safety to patients.
(2) A health care provider who has agreed to be a supervising professional for avolunteer at a qualified location shall:
(a) enter into a delegation of service agreement with the volunteer health carepractitioner;
(b) agree to provide the level of supervision required in Subsection 58-81-102(5);
(c) determine with the volunteer whether the volunteer's scope of practice or ability toprescribe controlled substances will be limited by the delegation of service agreement;
(d) include in the delegation of service agreement that the volunteer may not prescribe acontrolled substance to himself, the volunteer's family, or a staff member of the qualifiedlocation; and
(e) forward the delegation of service agreement to the division.

Enacted by Chapter 263, 2009 General Session