NRS 630A.370
Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying issuance of license or certificate: Inability to practice

  • deceptive conduct
  • harmful medical practices
  • unlawful administering, dispensing or prescribing of controlled substance
  • unlawful abortion
  • practicing beyond scope of license or certificate
  • practicing experimental medicine without consent of patient
  • failure to exercise skill or diligence
  • certain operation of medical facility.
The following acts, among others, constitute grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying the issuance of a license or certificate:

1.

Inability to practice homeopathic medicine or to practice as an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or as a homeopathic assistant, as applicable, with reasonable skill and safety because of an illness, a mental or physical condition or an alcohol or other substance use disorder.

2.

Engaging in any:

(a)

Professional conduct which is intended to deceive or which the Board by regulation has determined is unethical.

(b)

Medical practice harmful to the public or any conduct detrimental to the public health, safety or morals which does not constitute gross or repeated malpractice or professional incompetence.

3.

Administering, dispensing or prescribing any controlled substance, except as authorized by law.

4.

Performing, assisting or advising an unlawful abortion or in the injection of any liquid substance into the human body to cause an abortion.

5.

Practicing or offering to practice beyond the scope permitted by law, or performing services which the homeopathic physician, advanced practitioner of homeopathy or homeopathic assistant knows or has reason to know he or she is not competent to perform.

6.

Performing any procedure without first obtaining the informed consent of the patient or the patient’s family or prescribing any therapy which by the current standards of the practice of homeopathic medicine is experimental.

7.

Continued failure to exercise the skill or diligence or use the methods ordinarily exercised under the same circumstances by homeopathic physicians, advanced practitioners of homeopathy and homeopathic assistants in good standing who practice homeopathy and electrodiagnosis, as applicable.

8.

Operation of a medical facility, as defined in NRS 449.0151, at any time during which:

(a)

The license of the facility is suspended or revoked; or

(b)

An act or omission occurs which results in the suspension or revocation of the license pursuant to NRS 449.160.
Ê This subsection applies to an owner or other principal responsible for the operation of the facility.

Source: Section 630A.370 — Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying issuance of license or certificate: Inability to practice; deceptive conduct; harmful medical practices; unlawful administering, dispensing or prescribing of controlled substance; unlawful abortion; practicing beyond scope of license or certificate; practicing experimental medicine without consent of patient; failure to exercise skill or diligence; certain operation of medical facility., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-630A.­html#NRS630ASec370.

Last Updated

Jun. 24, 2021

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