630A.350 - Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure: False application for license; misrepresenting disease or injury for personal gain; false advertising; practicing under anot

630A.350  Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure: False application for license; misrepresenting disease or injury for personal gain; false advertising; practicing under another name; signing blank prescription form; influencing patient to engage in sexual activity; discouraging second opinion; terminating care without adequate notice.  The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying the issuance of a license:

      1.  Willfully making a false or fraudulent statement or submitting a forged or false document in applying for a license to practice homeopathic medicine.

      2.  Willfully representing with the purpose of obtaining compensation or other advantages for himself or herself or for any other person that a manifestly incurable disease or injury or other manifestly incurable condition can be permanently cured.

      3.  Obtaining, maintaining or renewing, or attempting to obtain, maintain or renew, a license to practice homeopathic medicine by bribery, fraud or misrepresentation or by any false, misleading, inaccurate or incomplete statement.

      4.  Advertising the practice of homeopathic medicine in a false, deceptive or misleading manner.

      5.  Practicing or attempting to practice homeopathic medicine under a name other than the name under which he or she is licensed.

      6.  Signing a blank prescription form.

      7.  Influencing a patient in order to engage in sexual activity with the patient or another person.

      8.  Attempting directly or indirectly, by way of intimidation, coercion or deception, to obtain or retain a patient or to discourage a patient from obtaining a second opinion.

      9.  Terminating the medical care of a patient without giving adequate notice or making other arrangements for the continued care of the patient.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 1486; A 1987, 2064)