R156-42a-502

R156-42a-502. Unprofessional Conduct

Last amended: 2025Length: 159 wordsOfficial source

Cite as Utah Admin. Code R156-42a-502

Under Section 58-42a-502, "unprofessional conduct" includes: (1) delegating occupational therapy services, care, or responsibilities that are not authorized to be delegated under Title 58, Chapter 42a, Occupational Therapy Practice Act, or this rule; (2) engaging in or attempting to engage in the use of physical agent modalities, wound care, or manual therapy: (a) outside the licensee's scope of practice; or (b) if the licensee is not competent to engage in these services by education, training, or experience; (3) failing as a supervising occupational therapist to provide the appropriate level of supervision under Title 58, Chapter 42a, Occupational Therapy Practice Act, and this rule; (4) failing as a supervising occupational therapist to cosign the discharge documentation for an occupational therapist assistant's client within 30 days under Subsections 58-42a-306(2) and R156-42a-601(1); or (5) violating a provision of the AOTA 2020 Occupational Therapy Code of Ethics as adopted by the AOTA's Representative Assembly on November 4, 2020, which is incorporated by reference.
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