Sec. 206.254.  ESTABLISHMENT OF CERTAIN FUNCTIONS AND STANDARDS.  A surgical assistant and the surgical assistant's delegating physician shall ensure that:
(1)  the surgical assistant's scope of function is identified;
(2)  the delegation of medical tasks is appropriate to the surgical assistant's level of competence;
(3)  the relationship between the surgical assistant and the delegating physician and the access of the surgical assistant to the delegating physician are defined;  and
(4)  a process is established for evaluating the surgical assistant's performance.
Added by Acts 2001, 77th Leg., ch. 1014, Sec. 1, eff. Sept. 1, 2001.