What must the supervising physician actually do in Florida?
Oversight · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
If an NP or PA works without on-site supervision in a skin-care office away from the physician's main practice, the physician must be a board-certified or board-eligible dermatologist or plastic surgeon and may supervise only one such office.
⚠️ the supervising physician must be a dermatologist or plastic surgeon. Where the office is not the physician’s primary practice location, the nurse or assistant is not under onsite supervision, and the services are primarily dermatologic or aesthetic skin care other than plastic surgery, the physician must be board certified or board eligible in dermatology or plastic surgery as recognized by the Board under §458.3312. This is a qualification on the person, not a paperwork step, and no protocol cures its absence.
Fla. Stat. §458.348(3)(c)2. · verified Sep 1, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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Laser and light-based hair removal is carved OUT of that regime and handed a stricter one. Any protocol for electrolysis or electrology using laser or light-based hair removal or reduction by a person other than a physician must require that person to be appropriately trained and to work only under the DIRECT supervision and responsibility of a physician licensed under chapter 458 or 459.
Fla. Stat. §458.348(2) · verified Sep 1, 2026
A medical assistant may perform defined clinical tasks — including administering medications and giving injections — only under the direct supervision and responsibility of a physician.
Fla. Stat. §458.3485 · verified Jul 26, 2026
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