Eligibility for volunteer health care practitioner license -- Delegation of service agreement.

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  • (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.




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