Indiana Administrative Code
Title 842 - INDIANA BOARD OF PHYSICAL THERAPY
Article 1 - PHYSICAL THERAPISTS AND PHYSICAL THERAPISTS' ASSISTANTS
Rule 6 - Standards of Professional Conduct
Section 6-1 - Definitions
Current through September 18, 2024
Authority: IC 25-27-1-5
Affected: IC 25-1-9
Sec. 1.
For purposes of the standards of professional conduct and competent practice of physical therapy or practice as a physical therapist assistant, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Practitioner" means a person holding a license to practice physical therapy; a person holding a certificate to practice as a physical therapist assistant; or a person holding a temporary permit issued by the board.
(2) "Professional incompetence" may include, but is not limited to, a pattern or course of repeated conduct by a practitioner demonstrating a failure to exercise such reasonable care and diligence as is ordinarily exercised by practitioners in the same or similar circumstances in the same or similar locality.
Transferred from the Medical Licensing Board of Indiana (844 IAC 6-7-1) to the Indiana Board of Physical Therapy (842 IAC 1-6-1) by P.L. 160-2019, SECTION 31, effective July 1, 2019.
