Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 172 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE › Chapter 23 - LICENSURE OF AUDIOLOGISTS AND SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS › Section 172-23-006 - UNPROFESSIONAL CONDUCT

Current through June 17, 2024
Commission of acts or behaviors constituting unprofessional
				  conduct are outlined in Neb. Rev. Stat. §
									38-179
				  and this chapter and include
(A)
				Providing services for which the licensee is not trained or
				experienced;
(B) Performing or
				agreeing to perform procedures when the procedures are known to be a departure
				from standard or acceptable and prevailing practice in audiology and
				speech-language pathology, but not to include a single act of ordinary
				negligence;
(C) Commission of any
				act which endangers public safety or welfare;
(D) Failing to safeguard the welfare of
				patients and maintain appropriate professional relationships with patients and
				other healthcare practitioners;
(E)
				Performing or agreeing to perform audiology or speech-language pathology
				therapy services that have been requested when the services are known to be
				contraindicated or unjustified;
(F)
				Falsification or unauthorized destruction of patient's records;
(G) Delegating to other personnel those
				patient-related services for which the clinical skills and expertise of an
				audiologist or speech-language pathologist are required;
(H) Failure to safeguard a patient's dignity
				and right to privacy;
(I) Filing a
				false report or record in the practice of audiology or speech-language
				pathologyb including, but not limited to, collecting a fee;
(J) Falsely representing the use or
				availability of the services or advice of a physician;
(K) Providing services or promoting the sale
				of devices, appliances or products to a person who cannot reasonably be
				expected to benefit from the services, devices, appliances, or
				products;
(L) Discriminating in the
				provision of services to individuals on the basis of sex, race, religion or
				national origin;
(M) Engaging in
				sexual harassment of patients which includes, but is not limited to, making
				unwelcome sexual advances, requesting sexual favors, and engaging in other
				verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature which results in providing or
				denying service to a patient, creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive
				environment for the patient or interfering with a patient's ability to
				recover.
(N) Failing to follow
				policies or procedures implemented in the practice situation to safeguard
				patient care.
(O) Failing to
				exercise appropriate supervision over persons who are authorized to practice
				only under the supervision of an audiologist or speech-language
				pathologist;
(P) Failing to take
				steps to transfer the continuum of care of the patient, as appropriate, to
				another health care provider in the event of elective termination of audiology
				or speech-language pathology therapy services by an audiologist or
				speech-language pathologist;
(Q)
				Failure of the applicant or licensee, who is the subject of a pre-licensure or
				disciplinary investigation, to furnish the Department or its investigator with
				requested information or requested documents.