Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 30 - Professions and Occupations › Part 3103 - Licensure, Practice, Renewal, Continuing Education, Standard of Conduct And Fee › Chapter 7 - Exceptions and Exemptions › Rule 30-3103-7.1 - Exceptions

Current through June 25, 2024
No person shall practice physical therapy or represent
				  himself/herself to be a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant
				  unless he/she is licensed by the Board, except as otherwise provided in this
				  section.
1. Students enrolled in
				accredited physical therapy educational programs, while engaged in completing a
				clinical requirement for graduation, which must be performed under direct
				clinical supervision. Direct clinical supervision shall mean under the direct
				control of a clinical instructor of the physical therapy program in which the
				student is enrolled, or his/her designee. Students in an accredited physical
				therapy program may provide treatment services in a pro bono clinic setting
				under the supervision of a Mississippi licensed physical therapist when such is
				done as a part of the clinical requirements for graduation from a physical
				therapist or physical therapist assistant educational program. The clinical
				instructor or his/her designee must be a licensed Mississippi physical therapy
				practitioner and shall be readily accessible and accountable at all times when
				physical therapy services are being provided by the student. If the student is
				completing a physical therapist educational program, it's a licensed physical
				therapist. If the student is completing a physical therapist assistant program,
				the physical therapist assistant will work collaboratively with a physical
				therapist to supervise the physical therapist assistant student in full
				compliance with all laws, rules and regulations regarding physical therapist
				assistant scope of practice. The Board has adopted the American Physical
				Therapy Association (APTA) guidelines for supervision of student physical
				therapist assistants.
2. Physical
				therapists licensed in other jurisdictions while enrolled in graduate
				educational programs in this state that include the evaluation and treatment of
				patients as part of their experience required for credit, so long as the
				student is not at the same time gainfully employed in this state as a physical
				therapist;
3. Practitioners of
				physical therapy employed in the United States Armed Services, United States
				Public Health Service, Veterans Administration or other federal agency;
				however, if such individual engages in the practice of physical therapy outside
				of the scope of official duty, he must be licensed as herein
				provided;
4. Physical therapists or
				physical therapist assistants licensed in other jurisdictions who are teaching
				or participating in physical therapy education projects, demonstrations or
				courses in this state, or providing physical therapy services to visiting
				established athletic organizations, performing arts companies or volunteering
				to provide services to competitors in events such as the Olympics or dance
				competitions in which their participation in the treatment and/or evaluation of
				patients is minimal.
5. Schools,
				YMCAs, athletic clubs and similar organizations furnishing services to their
				players and members, provided that they do not represent themselves as physical
				therapists, as physical therapist assistants, or as providing physical therapy
				services;
6. The performance by any
				person of simple mechanical or machine assisted acts in the physical care of a
				patient, not requiring the knowledge and skill of a physical therapist under
				the order or direction of a licensed doctor of medicine or dentistry or of a
				physical therapist assistant under the direct, on-site supervision of a
				licensed physical therapist.
7.
				Nothing in these regulations is intended to limit, preclude, or otherwise
				interfere with the practices of other persons and health providers licensed by
				appropriate agencies of the State of Mississippi.
8. A physical therapist or physical therapist
				assistant who is licensed in a jurisdiction of the United States and who enters
				this state to provide physical therapy during a lawfully declared local, state
				or national disaster or emergency. This exemption applies for no longer than 60
				days or the period prescribed by the Board following the declaration of the
				emergency. In order to be eligible for this exemption the physical therapist or
				physical therapist assistant shall:
a. Notify
				the Board in writing of their intent to practice;
b. Shall provide a copy of their license in
				good standing;
c. Shall, if a
				physical therapist assistant, practice only under the supervision of a physical
				therapist who is duly licensed in the State of Mississippi. Any licensee who
				will supervise a person in this category shall provide the Board with a
				schedule indicating when the person will be performing therapy services and
				with the names of the facilities at which the person will perform the
				services.