(a) Patient care orders generated by a physician assistant shall be construed as having the same medical, health, and legal force and effect as if the orders were generated by their supervising physician, provided that the supervising physician's name is identified in the patient care order.
(b) The orders shall be complied with and carried out as if the orders had been issued by the physician assistant's supervising physician.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 105 - Physician Assistants
§ 17-105-102. Qualifications for licensure
§ 17-105-103. Graduate license — Temporary license
§ 17-105-104. Inactive license
§ 17-105-106. Exemption from licensure
§ 17-105-107. Scope of authority — Delegatory authority — Agent of supervising physician
§ 17-105-108. Prescriptive authority
§ 17-105-110. Supervising physician
§ 17-105-111. Notification of intent to practice
§ 17-105-112. Exclusions of limitations of employment
§ 17-105-114. Disciplinary authority
§ 17-105-115. Title and practice protection
§ 17-105-116. Identification requirements
§ 17-105-117. Rulemaking authority
§ 17-105-118. Regulation by Arkansas State Medical Board
§ 17-105-119. “Good Samaritan” provision
§ 17-105-120. Retired physician assistants
§ 17-105-121. Physician assistant employment — Uniform Classification Plan
§ 17-105-122. Physician assistant patient care orders
§ 17-105-123. Medical malpractice — Professional and legal liability for actions