Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 17 - ARIZONA REGULATORY BOARD OF PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R4-17-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
For the purposes of A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 25 and this
				  Chapter:
1. "Ability to perform health care tasks authorized by A.R.S.
				  §
									32-2531
				  " means:
a. The cognitive capacity to make clinical diagnoses and
				  exercise medical judgments and to learn and keep abreast of medical
				  developments through the completion of continuing medical education,
b. The ability to communicate medical judgments and medical
				  information to patients and other professionals, and
c. The physical capability to perform the health care tasks
				  authorized by A.R.S. §
									32-2531.
2. "Applicant" means an individual seeking a regular license
				  or renewal license.
3. "Category I" means a designation given to a continuing
				  medical education activity provided by an institution or organization that has
				  been accredited for continuing medical education by the:
a. Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
				  Education,
b. American Medical Association,
c. American Academy of Physician Assistants,
d. American Osteopathic Association,
e. Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
				  Education,
f. Accreditation Review Commission on Education for Physician
				  Assistants, or
g. Commission on the Accreditation of Allied Health Education
				  Programs.
4. "Controlled Substance" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									32-1901.
5. "Dispense" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									32-1901.
6. "Drug" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									32-1901.
7. "Health care institution" means the same as in A.R.S.
				  §
									36-401.
8. "Health professional" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									32-3201 or
				  its equivalent in another state.
9. "Health profession regulatory authority" means a state or
				  federal entity that issues and regulates health professional licenses.
10. "NCCPA" means the National Commission on the
				  Certification of Physician Assistants.
11. "PANCE" means the Physician Assistant National Certifying
				  Examination.
12. "PANRE" means the Physicians Assistants National
				  Recertification Examination.
13. "Prescribe" means to issue:
a. A signed, written order to a pharmacist for drugs or
				  medical devices; or
b. An order transmitted to a pharmacist by word of mouth,
				  telephone, or other means of communication.
14. "Privileges" means the authority granted by a health care
				  institution to a physician or physician assistant to practice medicine at the
				  health care institution.
15. "Service" means personal delivery or mailing by certified
				  mail to a physician assistant, supervising physician, or applicant affected by
				  a decision of the Board at the physician assistant's, supervising physician's,
				  or applicant's last known residence or place of business.
16. "State fiscal year" means from July 1 of one calendar
				  year to June 30 of the next calendar year.
17. "Substance use disorder" means the maladaptive pattern of
				  the use of a drug, alcohol, or chemical leading to effects that are detrimental
				  to an individual's physical or mental health.