As used in this article, the term:

(1) "Board" means the Composite State Board of Medical Examiners as created by Code Section 43-34-21.

(2) "Carry out a prescription drug or device order" means to complete, on a form established and approved by the board, a written prescription drug order or a prescription device order pursuant to the authority delegated by a supervising physician.

(3) "Evaluation agency" means a public or private hospital, school, laboratory, clinic, federal or state institution or agency, or similar facility which has been approved by the board as possessing personnel and equipment and as having had practice in a health care field sufficient to be able to make an objective appraisal, in a manner prescribed by the board, of the proposed physician's assistant's qualifications to perform the tasks described in the job description.

(4) "Physician" means a person lawfully licensed in this state to practice medicine and surgery pursuant to Article 2 of this chapter.

(5) "Physician's assistant" means a skilled person qualified by academic and practical training to provide patients' services not necessarily within the physical presence but under the personal direction or supervision of the applying physician.