(a) Patient care orders generated by a graduate registered physician shall be construed as having the same medical, health, and legal force and effect as if the orders were generated by his or her 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 graduate registered physician's supervising physician.
Structure Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 95 - Physicians and Surgeons
Subchapter 9 - Arkansas Graduate Registered Physician Act
§ 17-95-903. Qualifications for licensure
§ 17-95-905. Scope of authority
§ 17-95-906. Prescriptive authority
§ 17-95-908. Notification of intent to practice
§ 17-95-909. Exclusions of limitations of employment
§ 17-95-911. Disciplinary authority
§ 17-95-912. Title and practice protection
§ 17-95-913. Identification requirements
§ 17-95-914. Rulemaking authority
§ 17-95-915. “Good Samaritan” provision
§ 17-95-916. Patient care orders
§ 17-95-917. Medical malpractice — Professional and legal liability for actions