848 IAC 2-3-3 - Unprofessional conduct
Authority: IC 25-23-1-7
Affected: IC 25-23
Sec. 3.
Nursing behaviors (acts, knowledge, and practices) failing to meet the minimal standards of acceptable and prevailing licensed practical nursing practices, which could jeopardize the health, safety, and welfare of the public shall constitute unprofessional conduct. These behaviors shall include, but are not limited to, the following:
(1) Using unsafe judgment, technical skills,
or inappropriate interpersonal behaviors in providing nursing care.
(2) Performing any nursing technique or
procedure for which the nurse is unprepared by education or
experience.
(3) Disregarding a
patient/client's dignity, right to privacy, or right to
confidentiality.
(4) Failing to
provide nursing care because of diagnosis, age, sex, race, color, or
creed.
(5) Abusing a patient/client
verbally, physically, emotionally, or sexually.
(6) Falsifying, omitting, or destroying
documentation of nursing actions on the official patient/client
record.
(7) Abandoning or knowingly
neglecting patients/clients requiring nursing care.
(8) Accepting delegated nursing measures that
he or she knows that he or she is not prepared, qualified, or licensed to
perform.
(9) Providing one's
license/temporary permit to another individual for any reason.
(10) Failing to practice nursing in
accordance with prevailing practical nursing standards due to physical or
psychological impairment.
(11)
Diverting prescription drugs for own or another person's use.
(12) Misappropriating money or property from
a patient/client or employee.
(13)
Failing to notify, in writing, the appropriate party which may include:
(A) the office of the attorney general,
consumer protection division;
(B)
his or her employer or contracting agency; or
(C) the board; of any unprofessional conduct
which may jeopardize patient/client safety.
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