2009 Louisiana Laws TITLE 40 Public health and safety :: RS 40:1232.6 Grounds for disciplinary proceedings

§1232.6.  Grounds for disciplinary proceedings

The commission may discipline emergency medical services professionals by directing the bureau to deny, withhold, revoke, restrict, probate, or suspend a certificate to practice as a certified emergency medical technician or certified first responder, impose fines and assess costs, or otherwise discipline an EMS professional, and the commission may direct the bureau to limit, restrict, or deny a student EMS professional from entering or continuing the clinical phase of EMS education for the following causes:

(1)  Conviction of selling or attempting to sell, falsely obtaining, or furnishing to a person a certified emergency medical technician or certified first responder certification document.

(2)  Conviction of a crime or offense which reflects the inability of a certified emergency medical technician or certified first responder to provide emergency medical services with due regard for the health and safety of clients or patients or enters a plea of guilty or nolo contendere to a criminal charge regardless of final disposition of the criminal proceeding, including but not limited to expungement or nonadjudication.

(3)  Is unfit or incompetent by reason of negligence, habit, or other cause.

(4)  Is habitually intemperate in the use of or abuses alcohol or habit-forming drugs.

(5)  Is guilty of aiding or abetting another person in the violation of this Subpart.

(6)  Is mentally incompetent.

(7)  Endeavors to deceive or defraud the public.

(8)  Professional or medical incompetency.

(9)  Unprofessional conduct.

(10)  Continuing or recurring practices which fail to meet the standards of EMS care in this state.

(11)  Abandonment of a patient.

(12)  Has had a certification or license to practice as an EMS professional or to practice as another health care provider denied, revoked, suspended, or otherwise restricted.

(13)  Is guilty of moral turpitude.

(14)  Has violated any rules and regulations of the commission or the bureau or any provision of this Subpart.

Acts 1997, No. 913, §2; Acts 2003, No. 208, §1; Acts 2004, No. 797, §1, eff. July 8, 2004.