1.  Certain phrases relating to a claim for compensation for an industrial injury or occupational disease and used by a physician, chiropractic physician, physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse when determining the causation of an industrial injury or occupational disease are deemed to be equivalent and may be used interchangeably. Those phrases are:

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(a) ’Directly connect this injury or occupational disease as job incurred’; and

(b) ’A degree of reasonable medical probability that the condition in question was caused by the industrial injury.’

2.  References to a physician assistant and an advanced practice registered nurse in this section are for the purposes of the examination and treatment of an injured employee which are authorized to be provided by a physician assistant or advanced practice registered nurse in the exclusive context of an initial examination and treatment pursuant to NRS 616C.010.