Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1773A – Participation in disaster or emergency care
(a) A physician assistant licensed in this State or licensed or authorized to practice in any other U.S. jurisdiction or credentialed as a physician assistant by a federal employer who is responding to a need for medical care created by an emergency or a state or local disaster (excluding an emergency which occurs in that person’s place of employment or practice) may render such care that the physician assistant is able to provide without collaboration pursuant to § 1770A of this title or with such collaboration as is available.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 24 Sec. 1773A
- Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- State: means the State of Delaware; and when applied to different parts of the United States, it includes the District of Columbia and the several territories and possessions of the United States. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
(b) Any physician who collaborates with a physician assistant providing medical care in response to such an emergency or state or local disaster shall not be required to meet the requirements set forth in this subchapter for a collaborating physician.
(c) A person licensed as a physician assistant under this chapter who, in good faith and without gross or wanton negligence, renders emergency care at the scene of an emergency, excluding an emergency which occurs in that person’s place of employment or practice, shall not be liable for civil damages as a result of any acts or omissions in rendering the emergency care.
78 Del. Laws, c. 387, § ?2; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1; 83 Del. Laws, c. 16, § 2;