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 nursing practice,
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) Delegating nursing care, functions,
tasks, or responsibility to others when the nurse knows, or should know, that
such delegation is to the detriment of patient safety.
(9) Providing one's license/temporary permit
to another individual for any reason.
(10) Failing to practice nursing in
accordance with prevailing 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.
