Current through the 2024 Fourth Special Session
Section 58-81-103 - Eligibility for volunteer health care practitioner license - Delegation of service agreement(1) A health care practitioner is eligible to apply to the division and board for a volunteer health care practitioner license if the health care practitioner: (a) certifies to the division and board that the applicant will be engaged exclusively in volunteer health care services; and(b) completes an application for a volunteer health care practitioner license, which includes 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 care practitioner'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, another state of the United States, or a district or territory of the 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 care practitioner'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 a volunteer at a qualified location shall:(a) enter into a delegation of service agreement with the volunteer health care practitioner;(b) agree to provide the level of supervision required in Subsection 58-81-102(6);(c) determine with the volunteer whether the volunteer's scope of practice or ability to prescribe 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 a controlled substance to himself, the volunteer's family, or a staff member of the qualified location; and(e) forward the delegation of service agreement to the division.Amended by Chapter 49, 2014 General Session ,§ 1, eff. 5/13/2014.Enacted by Chapter 263, 2009 General Session