WSR 15-21-017 INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
[Filed October 12, 2015, 12:15 p.m.]
NOTICE OF ADOPTION OF AN INTERPRETIVE STATEMENT
Title of Interpretive Statement: Allopathic Physician Assistants Ordering Patient Restraint and Seclusion.
Issuing Entity: Medical quality assurance commission.
Subject Matter: Interpreting chapters 18.71A RCW and 246-918 WAC as authorizing allopathic physician assistants to order patient restraint and seclusion provided the medical quality assurance commission approved delegation agreement does not specifically prohibit this activity and the activity is within the supervising physician's scope of practice.
Effective Date: October 1, 2015.
Contact Person: Daidria Pittman, program manager, (360) 236-2727, Daidria.Pittman@DOH.WA.Gov.
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