Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 43 - Board of Occupational Therapy Examiners › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R4-43-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions at A.R.S. §
									32-3401,
				  in this Chapter:
1. "Facility of Practice" means the principal location of an
				  agency or organization where an occupational therapist or occupational therapy
				  assistant practices occupational therapy.
2. "Good Moral Character" means an applicant has not been
				  convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor within 5 years before application and
				  never been convicted of a felony or misdemeanor involving moral
				  turpitude.
3. "Health Care Professional" means a person certified as an
				  Occupational Therapist or an Occupational Therapy Assistant by the American
				  Occupational Therapy Certification Board or the National Board for
				  Certification in Occupational Therapy, Inc. or any medical professional
				  licensed by A.R.S. Title 32 or the equivalent if licensed outside of
				  Arizona.
4. "Immediate area" means an occupational therapist is on the
				  same floor and within 80 feet of an occupational therapy aide providing
				  services to an occupational therapy patient.
5. "Immorality or misconduct that tends to discredit the
				  occupational therapy profession" means:
a. Engaging in false advertising of occupational therapy
				  services.
b. Engaging in assault and battery of a patient, client, or
				  other person with whom the licensee has a professional relationship.
c. Falsifying patient or client documentation or
				  reports.
d. Failing to provide appropriate supervision of an
				  occupational therapy assistant or unlicensed personnel performing occupational
				  therapy.
e. Failing to provide a comprehensive occupational therapy
				  service compatible with current research within ethical and professional
				  standards, or failing to provide services based upon an evaluation of the
				  patient or client needs and appropriate treatment procedures.
f. Failing to document or maintain patient treatment records,
				  or failing to prepare patient or client reports within 30 days of service or
				  treatment.
g. Failing to renew a license while continuing to practice
				  occupational therapy.
h. Falsely claiming to have performed a professional service,
				  charging for a service not rendered, or representing a service as the
				  licensee's own when the licensee has not rendered the service or assumed
				  supervisory responsibility for the service.
i. Obtaining a fee, a referral fee, or other compensation by
				  fraud or misrepresentation.
j. Sexually inappropriate conduct with a client or patient,
				  or with a former client or patient within 6 months after the termination of
				  treatment.
k. Signing a blank, undated, or unprepared prescription
				  form.
l. Using fraud, misrepresentation, or deception in assisting
				  another person to obtain or attempt to obtain an occupational therapist or
				  occupational therapy assistant license.
m. Violating any federal law, state law, administrative
				  rules, or regulations concerning the practice of occupational therapy.
n. Violating rules or statutes concerning the training of
				  unlicensed occupational therapy personnel or requiring an unlicensed person to
				  provide occupational therapy services without proper training.
6. "Licensee" means a person licensed in Arizona as an
				  occupational therapist or an occupational therapy assistant.
7. "Occupational therapy aide," "unlicensed personnel," and
				  "occupational therapy technician" mean a person who is not licensed as an
				  occupational therapist or occupational therapy assistant, working under the
				  continuous supervision of a licensed occupational therapist.
8. "Physically present" means a supervising occupational
				  therapist is present to observe the practice of occupational therapy.
9. "Premises" means the building and the surrounding property
				  in which the occupational therapy is practiced.
10. "Person" means the same as in A.R.S. §
									41-1001.
11. "Supervision" means a collaborative process for the
				  responsible periodic review and inspection of all aspects of occupational
				  therapy services. The following levels of supervision are minimal. An
				  occupational therapist may assign an increased level of supervision if
				  necessary for the safety of a patient or client. The levels of supervision
				  are:
a. "Close supervision" means the supervising occupational
				  therapist provides initial direction to the occupational therapy assistant and
				  daily contact while on the premises.
b. "Continuous supervision" means the supervising
				  occupational therapist is in the immediate area of the occupational therapy
				  aide performing supportive services.
c. "General supervision" means the supervising occupational
				  therapist has face-to-face contact with the occupational therapy assistant at
				  least once every 30-calendar days on a per patient or client basis while on the
				  premises, with the supervising occupational therapist available by telephone or
				  by written communication.
d. "Minimal supervision" means the supervising occupational
				  therapist has face-to-face contact with the occupational therapy assistant at
				  least once every 30-calendar days while on the premises.
e. "Routine supervision" means the supervising occupational
				  therapist has face-to-face contact with the occupational therapy assistant at
				  least once every 15-calendar days on a per patient or client basis while on the
				  premises, with the supervising occupational therapist available by telephone or
				  by written communication.
12. "Supportive Services" means clerical and maintenance
				  activities, preparation of work area or equipment, and delegated, routine
				  aspects of an intervention session with a patient or client that require no
				  adaptations by an occupational therapy aide.