Iowa Code r. 481-783.2 - Grounds for discipline
The board may impose any of the disciplinary sanctions provided in Iowa Code section 272C.3 when the board determines that the licensee is guilty of any of the following acts or offenses or those listed in 481-Chapter 504:
(1)
Professional incompetency. Professional incompetency includes but is not
limited to:
a. A substantial lack of
knowledge or ability to discharge professional obligations within the scope of
practice.
b. A substantial
deviation from the standards of learning or skill ordinarily possessed and
applied by other physician assistants in the state of Iowa acting in the same
or similar circumstances.
c. A
failure to exercise the degree of care that is ordinarily exercised by the
average physician assistant acting in the same or similar
circumstances.
d. Failure to
conform to the minimal standard of acceptable and prevailing practice of a
physician assistant in this state.
e. Inability to practice with reasonable
skill and safety by reason of illness, drunkenness, excessive use of drugs,
narcotics, chemicals, or other type of material or as a result of a mental or
physical condition.
f. Being
adjudged mentally incompetent by a court of competent
jurisdiction.
(2)
Knowingly making misleading, deceptive, untrue or fraudulent representations in
the practice of the profession or engaging in unethical conduct or practice
harmful or detrimental to the public. Proof of actual injury need not be
established.
(3) Use of untruthful
or improbable statements in advertisements. Use of untruthful or improbable
statements in advertisements includes but is not limited to an action by a
licensee in making information or intention known to the public that is false,
deceptive, misleading or promoted through fraud or misrepresentation.
(4) Representing oneself as a physician
assistant when one's license has been suspended or revoked, or when one's
license is on inactive status, except as provided by rule
481-780.15 (148C).
(5) Failure to comply with universal
precautions for preventing transmission of infectious diseases as issued by the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention of the United States Department of
Health and Human Services.
(6) The
performance of a medical function without approved supervision, if supervision
is required pursuant to rules
481-780.7 (148C) and
481-780.8 (148C), except in
cases requiring performance of evaluation and treatment procedures essential to
providing an appropriate response to an emergency situation.
(7) Prescribing opioids in dosage amounts
that exceed what would be prescribed by a reasonably prudent
licensee.
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