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Occupations and Professions | |
Nurse Midwife Practice Act | |
Section 502 | Unprofessional conduct. |
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58-44a-502. Unprofessional conduct. "Unprofessional conduct" includes: (1) disregard for a patient's dignity or right to privacy as to his person, condition, possessions, or medical record; (2) engaging in an act, practice, or omission which when considered with the duties and responsibilities of a certified nurse midwife does or could jeopardize the health, safety, or welfare of a patient or the public; (3) failure to confine one's practice as a certified nurse midwife to those acts or practices permitted by law; (4) failure to file or record any medical report as required by law, impeding or obstructing the filing or recording of such a report, or inducing another to fail to file or record such a report; (5) breach of a statutory, common law, regulatory, or ethical requirement of confidentiality with respect to a person who is a patient, unless ordered by the court; (6) failure to pay a penalty imposed by the division; and (7) prescribing a schedule II-III controlled substance without a consulting physician.
Enacted by Chapter 288, 1998 General Session |
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