Can a physician assistant inject or prescribe in Georgia?
Oversight · part of The Practice Perimeter
Short answer
Only by delegation — a PA acts under a Board-approved physician assistant job description and may order drugs (select a drug or treatment) under it, but that ordering does not authorize issuing a written prescription; the cited rules don't address injecting.
An assistant laser practitioner license is open to someone holding a current license as a physician assistant, licensed practical nurse, nurse, esthetician, or master cosmetologist (or who previously held a license or certificate as a medical practitioner), who is 21 or older and holds at least three Board-approved laser/IPL course certificates taught by a licensed physician or a certified CME/CE educator.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 360-35-.02(2) · verified Aug 17, 2026 · regulatory monitoring, not legal advice
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A senior laser practitioner license requires a current physician assistant or nurse license (or a previously held medical practitioner license), at least three years of clinical or technological medical experience, three years of licensure or national board certification as a medical practitioner, verification of licensure from every state where the applicant has held one, and at least two Board-approved laser/IPL CME certificates.
Ga. Comp. R. & Regs. 360-35-.02(3) · verified Aug 17, 2026
Outside the laser rules, a physician delegates by one of two written instruments: a nurse protocol — a document mutually agreed and signed by a nurse and a licensed physician, delegating authority to perform certain medical acts including administering and ordering drugs — or a physician assistant job description approved for that assistant by the Board.
O.C.G.A. §43-34-23 · verified Aug 17, 2026 · read at FindLaw Codes
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