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ARIZONA HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVESFifty-seventh Legislature First Regular Session |
House: HHS DPA/SE 11-1-0-0 |3rd Read 57-1-2-0
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HB 2025: medical assistants; scope of practice
NOW: scope of practice; medical assistants
Sponsor: Representative Bliss, LD 1
Signed by the Governor
Overview
Allows medical assistants to place and remove urinary catheters after appropriate training and under general supervision of a licensed physician, physician assistant (PA), nurse practitioner (NP), clinical nurse specialists (CNS) or certified nurse midwives (CNM).
History
A medical assistant is an unlicensed person who performs specified tasks as outlined in statute, has completed an education program approved by the Arizona Medical Board (Board), assists in a medical practice under the supervision of a licensed Doctor of Medicine (MD), PA or NP and performs delegated procedures that commensurate with the medical assistant's education and training but does not diagnose, interpret, design or modify established treatment programs or perform any functions that would violate any statute applicable to the practice of medicine (A.R.S. § 32-1401).
Medical assistants may perform certain medical procedures while under the direct supervision of an MD, PA or NP such as taking bodily fluid specimens or administering injections. A urinary catheter is a flexible tube used to empty the bladder and collect urine in a drainage bag (U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention).
The Board, by rule, may prescribe other medical procedures that a medical assistant may perform under the direct supervision of an MD, PA or NP on a determination by the Board that the procedures may be competently performed by the medical assistant (A.R.S. § 32-1456).
Additionally, the Board by rule can establish medical assistant training requirements. The training requirements for a medical assistant may be satisfied through a training program that meets all of the following: 1) is designed and offered by a physician; 2) meets or exceeds any of the approved training program requirements specified in rule; 3) verifies the entry-level competencies of a medical assistant as prescribed by rule; and 4) provides written verification to the individual of successful completion of the training program (A.R.S. § 32-1456).
Provisions
1. Expands the scope of practice for medical assistants to include placing and removing urinary catheters after appropriate training and under the general supervision of a licensed physician, PA, NP, CNS or CNM. (Sec. 1)
2. Defines general supervision to mean a procedure or service that is provided the overall direction and control of a physician, nurse practitioner, clinical nurse specialists, certified nurse midwife or physician assistant but that the presence of these professionals are not required during the performance of the procedure or service. (Sec. 1)
3. Makes conforming changes. (Sec. 1)
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