1. State and federal laws governing the prescribing of

medications; and

2. The protocols established by the hospital, public health
facility, correctional facility, or detention center where the physician assistant is
requesting permission to write medication orders;

(2) The hospital, public health facility, correctional facility, or detention
center where the physician assistant is requesting permission to write medication
orders:

(i) Examines the physician assistant's qualifications to write
medication orders as part of an established credentialing process; and

(ii) Attests to having established minimum criteria for protocols

that:

1. Allow a physician assistant to write medication orders
only in accordance with clinical privileges and an expanded job description approved
by the Board;

2. Require a physician who has been approved by the Board
to supervise a physician assistant to countersign all medication orders in accordance
with this section;

3. Prohibit a physician assistant from using pre-signed

prescriptions;

4. Prohibit a physician assistant from dispensing

medications;

5. Require a physician assistant to legibly - sign each
medication order or set of medication orders with the name of the physician assistant,
the initials "PA-C", and any other notation mandated by the hospital, public health
facility, correctional facility, or detention center;

6. Allow a physician assistant's medication orders to be
transmitted by facsimile or other nonverbal electronic communication only to a
pharmacy within the hospital, public health facility, correctional facility, or detention
center or to the designated pharmacy of the hospital, public health facility,
correctional facility, or detention center;

7. Prohibit a physician assistant from verbally transmitting
a medication order over the telephone from outside the hospital, public health facility,
correctional facility, or detention center; and

8. Require a physician who has been approved by the Board
to supervise a physician assistant to notify the Board if the physician assistant's
authority to write medication orders has been restricted, removed by the supervising
physician, revoked by disciplinary measures of a hospital, public health facility,
correctional facility, or detention center, or if the physician assistant no longer
provides care in a setting where medication order writing has been authorized;