R4-45-214. Standards of Professional Conduct

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 practitionerpatient 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.