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Section 502 - Unprofessional conduct.

UT Code § 58-44a-502 (2019) (N/A)
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(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;

(7) prescribing a schedule II-III controlled substance without a consulting physician; and

(8) (a) failure to have and maintain a safe mechanism for obtaining medical consultation, collaboration, and referral with a consulting physician, including failure to identify one or more consulting physicians in the written documents required by Subsection 58-44a-102(9)(b)(iii); or (b) representing that the certified nurse midwife is in compliance with Subsection (8)(a) when the certified nurse midwife is not in compliance with Subsection (8)(a).

(a) failure to have and maintain a safe mechanism for obtaining medical consultation, collaboration, and referral with a consulting physician, including failure to identify one or more consulting physicians in the written documents required by Subsection 58-44a-102(9)(b)(iii); or

(b) representing that the certified nurse midwife is in compliance with Subsection (8)(a) when the certified nurse midwife is not in compliance with Subsection (8)(a).

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Section 502 - Unprofessional conduct.