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. 38, September 20, 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.
