Week 1 highlights Flashcards
What is the last US territory to authorize PA practice?
Puerto Rico (2019)
The PA practice act protocol should include what 6 things?
1) PA name, licensure #, primary practice location.
2) Collaborating physician’s name, license #, medical specialty, primary practice location.
3) General description of oversight by collaborating physician.
4) General description of process for collaboration with other physicians/healthcare team.
5) A formulary of drugs the PA is permitted to prescribe [specific to specialty]
6) 100% of pt charts reviewed by collaborating physician w/in 10-30d of controlled substance rx.
7) Scope: problems and conditions likely to be encountered by the PA, and the appropriate treatment for those problems and conditions (urgent conditions, referral, inpt, admin)
8) Proximity requirements
9) Co-signature requirements: -20% Q 30d
10) PA: physician ratio (should be none, TN)
True or false: A PA’s license renewal cycle and NCCPA certification cycle may differ greatly.
True
What is the verification of a healthcare practitioner’s education, training, work experience, licensure, etc called?
Credentialing
Define privileging
Granting approval for an individual to perform a specific procedure or specific set of privileges based on documented competence in the specialty in which privileges are requested.
What is the Hippocratic oath?
Oath of ethics by physicians
First PA Graduating Class graduated when?
(Know this)
Oct 6, 1967 (National PA day)
