Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 634 - Chiropractic › LICENSING AND CERTIFICATION › Chiropractor's Assistants › Section 634.3475 - "Detrimental to the best interests of the public" interpreted

Current through June 11, 2024
1. As used in subsection 10 of
				NRS
				634.018, the Board will interpret the phrase
				"detrimental to the best interests of the public" as applied to a
				chiropractor's assistant to include, without limitation:
(a) Unlawful disclosure of information about
				a patient.
(b) Willful or careless
				disregard for the health, welfare or safety of patients, regardless of whether
				proof of actual injury is established.
(c) Engaging in any conduct or verbal
				behavior that is inappropriately sexual with or towards a current
				patient.
(d) Engaging in any conduct
				or verbal behavior that is sexually or racially demeaning or offensive with or
				towards a current patient.
(e)
				Engaging in or soliciting sexual misconduct.
(f) Engaging with a patient in a romantic or
				dating relationship unless the patient is the spouse of the chiropractor's
				assistant.
(g) Use of protected or
				privileged information obtained from a patient to the detriment of the
				patient.
(h) Performing services
				which the chiropractor's assistant is not authorized to perform under the terms
				of a certificate issued by the Board as provided by
				NRS
				634.125.
(i) Billing or charging a patient for the
				services of the chiropractor's assistant.
(j) Intentionally causing physical or
				emotional injury to a patient.
(k)
				Aiding, abetting or assisting any person in violating any provision of this
				chapter or chapter 634 of NRS.
(l)
				Engaging in fraudulent or deceitful conduct in the capacity of a chiropractor's
				assistant.
(m) Obtaining any
				certificate through fraud, misrepresentation or deceit.
(n) Impersonating an applicant or acting as a
				proxy for the applicant in any examination.
(o) Disclosing the contents of an examination
				given by the Board or soliciting, accepting or compiling information regarding
				the contents of an examination before, during or after the administration of an
				examination given by the Board.
(p)
				Failing to provide the Board or its agents with any documents lawfully
				requested by the Board, whether by subpoena or otherwise.
(q) Failing to cooperate fully with the Board
				during the course of an investigation.
(r) Claiming or making representations of the
				attainment of any academic degree or award not actually received.
(s) Disobeying an order of the
				Board.
(t) Splitting fees or giving
				or receiving a commission in the referral of patients for services.
(u) The suspension or revocation of a license
				or certificate or other disciplinary action taken by another state against the
				chiropractor's assistant based on a license or certificate issued by that state
				for an act that would constitute grounds for disciplinary action in this State.
				A certified copy of the suspension, revocation or other disciplinary action
				taken by another state against the chiropractor's assistant based on a license
				or certificate issued by that state is conclusive evidence of that
				action.
(v) Performing a task for
				which the chiropractor's assistant has not been trained or which the
				chiropractor's assistant is not clinically competent to
				perform.