Nevada Administrative Code
Chapter 630A - Homeopathic Medicine
HOMEOPATHIC ASSISTANTS AND ADVANCED PRACTITIONERS OF HOMEOPATHY
Disciplinary Action
Section 630A.560 - Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying certification

Universal Citation: NV Admin Code 630A.560

Current through September 16, 2024

The Board may initiate disciplinary action against a homeopathic assistant or an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or may deny the issuance or renewal of a certificate if the Board finds after providing notice and a hearing that the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy:

1. Willfully and intentionally made a false or fraudulent statement or submitted a forged or false document to the Board;

2. Represented to another that the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy was a licensed physician or knowingly permitted another person to represent him or her as such;

3. Performed medical services which were not directed or supervised by a homeopathic physician as required by NAC 630A.350 and 630A.470;

4. Provided medical services when he or she did not have the ability to provide such services with reasonable skill and safety because:

(a) He or she was under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance; or

(b) He or she had a mental or physical illness;

5. Provided medical services in a negligent manner;

6. Failed to obey an order of the Board or an investigative committee of the Board, a law or a regulation which relates to the provision of health care or dispensing of drugs, including, without limitation, a regulation of the Board or the State Board of Health;

7. Administered, dispensed or possessed a controlled substance, except as authorized by law in the course of providing medical services;

8. Is not competent to provide the services required of a homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy;

9. Has been convicted of a felony or any offense involving moral turpitude;

10. Falsified records of health care or insurance;

11. Falsified medical records of a patient, including, without limitation, altering records to indicate the presence of the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy at a time when the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy was not in attendance or to indicate that procedures were performed on the patient by the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy that were in fact not performed by him or her;

12. Acquired any controlled substance from a pharmacy or other source by misrepresentation, fraud, deception or subterfuge;

13. Allowed any person who is unlicensed and uncertified to treat a patient by means of homeopathy;

14. Failed to honor the advance directive of a patient without informing the patient, the surrogate or the guardian of the patient, and without documenting in the records of the patient the reasons for failing to honor the advance directive of the patient contained therein;

15. Entered into a multilevel marketing agreement with a patient or an immediate family member of the patient;

16. Failed to report timely to the Board any judgment or settlement required to be reported pursuant to NAC 630A.136; or

17. Has had disciplinary action taken against him or her in another jurisdiction or by another board that regulates health care in this State if the disciplinary action was taken against the homeopathic assistant or advanced practitioner of homeopathy in his or her capacity as the holder of a license or certificate which authorizes him or her to provide medical services.

Added to NAC by Bd. of Homeopathic Medical Exam'rs, eff. 10-25-96; A by R058-00, 12-11-2000; R105-03, 9-24-2003; R217-08, 12-17-2008

NRS 630A.155, 630A.200, 630A.295, 630A.299

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