Florida Statute 468.808 | Lawyer Caselaw & Research

The 2024 Florida Statutes

Title XXXII
REGULATION OF PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

Chapter 468
MISCELLANEOUS PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS

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F.S. 468.808

468.808 Support personnel.—A person must be licensed to practice orthotics, prosthetics, or pedorthics in this state. However, a licensed orthotist, prosthetist, or pedorthist may delegate duties, not to include patient evaluation, treatment formulation, or the final fitting of a device prior to patient use, to nonlicensed support personnel. All other delegated duties must be performed under the supervision, as defined by the board by rule, of a licensed orthotist, prosthetist, or pedorthist, and the persons acting as support personnel must be identified as such by wearing an identification tag as defined by the board by rule. In such instances the supervising licensee is responsible for all acts performed by such persons.

History.—s. 9, ch. 97-284; s. 7, ch. 2008-121.

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Cases Citing Statute 468.808

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Hanger Prosthetics & Orthotics, Inc. v. Department of Health, Board of Orthotists & Prosthetists

Court: Fla. Dist. Ct. App. | Date Filed: 2007-02-21T00:00:00-08:00

Citation: 948 So. 2d 980, 2007 Fla. App. LEXIS 2358, 2007 WL 516131

Snippet: employed the term “direct supervision” in section 468.808, Florida Statutes (2005): Support personnel. — …they delegate to unlicensed support staff. See § 468.808, Fla. Stat. (2005). The proposed rule merely specifies