Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 45 - Board of Respiratory Care Examiners › Article 2 - LICENSURE › Section R4-45-214 - Standards of Professional Conduct

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Conduct or practice that is contrary to recognized standards
				  of ethics of the respiratory therapy profession, as used in A.R.S. §
									32-3501(10)(i),
				  includes the following:
1. Engaging in
				the practice of respiratory care in a manner that harms or may harm a patient
				or that the Board determines falls below the community standard;
2. Procuring or attempting to procure by
				fraud or misrepresentation a license or renewal of a license to practice
				respiratory care;
3. Violating a
				formal order, condition of probation, or stipulation issued by the Board,
				another regulatory entity of any state, or a court of law;
4. Obtaining a fee by fraud, deceit, or
				misrepresentation;
5. Falsely
				claiming attendance at an approved continuing education to meet license renewal
				requirements;
6. Endangering a
				patient's or the public's physical or emotional health or safety or engaging in
				conduct or practice that may reasonably be expected to do so;
7. Engaging in sexual intimacies with a
				patient unless the sexual intimacies were initiated before the
				practitioner-patient relationship was established;
8. Committing an act of sexual abuse,
				misconduct, harassment, or exploitation;
9. Acting in a manner that the Board
				determines, based on community standards, constitutes incompetence, gross
				negligence, repeated negligence, or negligence that results in harm or death of
				a patient;
10. Abandoning or
				neglecting a patient, including leaving a respiratory therapy assignment before
				properly advising supervisory personnel;
11. Failing to report for scheduled duty
				without properly advising supervisory personnel;
12. Using or being under the influence of
				alcohol, illegal drugs or substances, or drugs or substances that impair
				judgment, while on duty in any health care work location;
13. Impersonating another licensed
				practitioner;
14. Knowingly
				employing, directing, or supervising an individual in the performance of
				respiratory care who is not authorized to practice respiratory care;
15. Violating the confidentiality of
				information concerning a patient;
16. Inaccurately recording, falsifying, or
				altering a patient record, including a patient chart or medication
				administration record;
17.
				Misrepresenting or omitting a fact on an application for employment as a
				respiratory care practitioner;
18.
				Retaliating against any person who reports in good faith to the Board alleged
				incompetence or illegal or unethical conduct of any practitioner;
19. Using, removing, or possessing property
				that belongs to an individual or entity without authorization;
20. Threatening the physical health or safety
				of a Board member or the Board's staff; and
21. Knowingly exceeding the scope of practice
				for a respiratory care practitioner at any health care location as the scope of
				practice is defined by the entity responsible for that health care
				location.