practice partner
policy states that delegation is a mechanism
that allows a physician who is authorized to
perform a controlled act to confer that authority to another person (whether regulated
or unregulated) who is not independently
authorized to perform the act. The policy
states that delegation can take place through
either a direct order or a medical directive.
The focus of this Office Consult is on
delegation. In the next issue of Dialogue,
we will address medical directives, which
are written orders by physicians (often
more than one) to other health-care providers that pertain to any patient who meets
the criteria set out in the medical directive.
When the directive calls for acts that will
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