Pennsylvania Statutes Title 63 P.S. Professions and Occupations (State Licensed) § 422.11. Clinical clerks

(a) Authorized services.--A clinical clerk may perform the following services in a hospital to which the clerk is assigned, provided the services are performed within the restrictions contained in or authorized by this section:

(b) Regulations.--A clinical clerk shall not perform a medical service unless the performance of such by the clinical clerk under the circumstances is consistent with the regulations promulgated by the board and the standards of acceptable medical practice embraced by the medical doctor community in this Commonwealth. The board shall promulgate regulations which define the medical services those standards permit a clinical clerk to perform and the circumstances under which those standards permit a clinical clerk to perform a medical service.

(c) Supervision.--A clinical clerk shall not perform a medical service without the direct and immediate supervision of the medical doctor members of the medical staff or residents at the hospital in which the service is performed. The board shall promulgate regulations which define the supervision required by those standards.

(d) Drugs.--A clinical clerk shall not prescribe or dispense drugs.

(e) Notes on patients' charts.--Notes made on a patient's chart by a clinical clerk become official only when countersigned by a medical doctor member of the hospital's medical staff or resident beyond a first-year level of graduate medical education at the hospital.

(f) Other licenses or certificates.--Nothing in this section or the regulations authorized by this section shall be construed to prohibit a clinical clerk who is licensed or certified to practice a profession by a Commonwealth agency or board from practicing within the scope of that license or certificate or as otherwise authorized by law.