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The statute attaches a collaboration duty to the anesthesia itself. A certified registered nurse anesthetist shall collaborate with a physician, a dentist, a podiatrist, a certified nurse practitioner, a certified nurse midwife or a physician assistant when providing anesthesia services, shall collaborate with other health care providers when engaging in chronic pain practice, and shall refer or transfer patients as appropriate. Underneath those duties section 36-9-3.1 carries 7 powers: conducting an advanced comprehensive nursing assessment; ordering and interpreting diagnostic procedures; developing and initiating a patient-specific anesthesia or pain management plan of care and therapeutic regimen; prescribing, procuring, administering and furnishing pharmacological agents in connection with anesthesia practice or pain management, including over the counter, legend and controlled drugs or substances listed on Schedule II; prescribing nonpharmacological interventions; referring patients to health care agencies, providers or community resources; and completing and signing official documents required by law.

Both sections run to 7 numbered items and 4 of them are word for word the same. Section 36-9A-12 for the practitioner and 36-9A-13 for the midwife each open with conducting an advanced assessment and with ordering and interpreting diagnostic procedures, and each close with completing and signing official documents such as death certificates, birth certificates and similar documents required by law, and with delegating and assigning therapeutic measures to assistive personnel. The other 3 positions are where they part. A South Dakota nurse practitioner establishes primary and differential diagnoses as an item of its own, while for the midwife diagnosis sits inside managing the provision of women's health care throughout the lifespan, from adolescence through post menopause, alongside prenatal, intrapartum and postpartum care of the mother-baby unit. The midwife takes an item the practitioner has no equivalent for, managing sexually transmitted infections in males, and the practitioner takes a physical examination for the determination of participation in athletics or employment duties. Prescribing sits in both and reaches over the counter, legend and controlled drugs or substances listed on Schedule II in either, though the practitioner's version carries a branch the midwife's doesn't, a chemical or physical restraint order where the patient may do personal harm or harm others, and names hospice among its supportive services where the midwife's list leaves it out.

The duty and the definition sit in different places, and only one of them names anybody. Section 36-9A-13.1 is a single sentence: the certified nurse practitioner or certified nurse midwife shall collaborate with other health care providers and refer or transfer patients as appropriate. That sentence identifies no partner and asks for nothing to be filed. The word it turns on is defined earlier in the same chapter, and the definition does name one. Collaboration is the act of communicating pertinent information or consulting with a licensed physician or other licensed health care provider, with each provider contributing their respective expertise to optimize the overall care delivered to the patient.