Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 19 - Bureau of Professional Licensure › Subpart 60 - Professional Licensure › Chapter 10 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING LICENSURE OF SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS AND AUDIOLOGISTS › Subchapter 8 - Revocation, Suspension and Denial of License › Rule 15-19-60-10.8.1 - Standards of Conduct

Current through June 25, 2024
Licensees subject to these regulations shall conduct
						their activities, services, and practice in accordance with this section.
						Licensees may be subject to the exercise of the disciplinary sanctions
						enumerated in Rule 10.8.6 of
						these regulations if the Board finds that a licensee is guilty of any of the
						following:
1. Negligence in the
					 practice or performance of professional services or activities.
2. Engaging in dishonorable, unethical, or
					 unprofessional conduct of a character likely to deceive, defraud, or harm the
					 public in the course of professional services or activities.
3. Perpetrating or cooperating in fraud or
					 material deception in obtaining or renewing a license or attempting the
					 same.
4. Being convicted of any
					 crime which has a substantial relationship to the licensee's activities and
					 services or an essential element of which is misstatement, fraud, or
					 dishonesty.
5. Being convicted of
					 any crime which is a felony under the laws of this state or the United
					 States.
6. Engaging in or
					 permitting the performance of unacceptable services personally or by others
					 working under the licensee's supervision due to the licensee's deliberate or
					 negligent act or acts or failure to act, regardless of whether actual damage or
					 damages to the public is established.
7. Continued practice although the licensee
					 has become unfit to practice as a speech language-pathologist or audiologist
					 due to: a. failure to keep abreast of current professional theory or practice;
					 or b. physical or mental disability; the entry of an order or judgment by a
					 court of competent jurisdiction that a licensee is in need of mental treatment
					 or is incompetent shall constitute mental disability; or c. addiction or severe
					 dependency upon alcohol or other drugs which may endanger the public by
					 impairing the licensee's ability to practice.
8. Having disciplinary action taken against
					 the licensee's license in another state.
9. Making differential, detrimental treatment
					 against any person because of race, color, creed, sex, religion, or national
					 origin.
10. Engaging in lewd
					 conduct in connection with professional services or activities.
11. Engaging in false or misleading
					 advertising.
12. Contracting,
					 assisting, or permitting unlicensed persons to perform services for which a
					 license is required under these regulations.
13. Violation of any probation requirements
					 placed on a license by the Board.
14. Revealing confidential information except
					 as may be required by law.
15.
					 Failing to inform clients of the fact that the client no longer needs the
					 services or professional assistance of the licensee.
16. Charging excessive or unreasonable fees
					 or engaging in unreasonable collection practices.
17. For treating or attempting to treat
					 ailments or other health conditions of human beings other than by speech or
					 audiology therapy as authorized by these regulations.
18. For applying or offering to apply speech
					 or audiology, exclusive of initial evaluation or screening and exclusive of
					 education or consultation for the prevention of physical and mental disability
					 within the scope of speech or audiology therapy, or for acting as a speech-
					 language pathologist or audiologist, or speech-language pathologist or
					 audiologist aide other than under the direct, on-site supervision of a licensed
					 speech-language pathologist or audiologist.
19. Violations of the current codes for
					 speech-language pathologists or audiologists, and speech-language pathologist
					 or audiologist assistants adopted by the American Speech-Language-Hearing
					 Association.
20. Violations of any
					 rules or regulations promulgated pursuant to these regulations.
21. Has engaged in any conduct considered by
					 the Board to be detrimental to the profession of speech-language pathology or
					 audiology.
22. The Board may order
					 a licensee to submit to a reasonable physical or mental examination if the
					 licensee's physical or mental capacity to practice safely is at issue in a
					 disciplinary proceeding. Failure to comply with a board order to submit to a
					 physical or mental examination shall render a licensee subject to the summary
					 suspension procedures described in Rule
					 10.8.0 of these
					 regulations.
23. Being convicted of
					 any crime which has a substantial relationship to the licensee's activities and
					 services or an essential element of which is misstatement, fraud, or
					 dishonesty.
Miss.
						Code Ann. §
												73-38-13.