California Business and Professions Code 3755 – (a) The board may take action against a respiratory care …
(a) The board may take action against a respiratory care practitioner who is charged with unprofessional conduct in administering, or attempting to administer, direct or indirect respiratory care in any care setting. Unprofessional conduct includes, but is not limited to, the following:
(1) Repeated acts of clearly administering directly or indirectly inappropriate respiratory care procedures, protocols, therapeutic regimens, or diagnostic testing or monitoring techniques.
Terms Used In California Business and Professions Code 3755
- Board: means the Respiratory Care Board of California. See California Business and Professions Code 3704
- Respiratory care: includes "respiratory therapy" or "inhalation therapy" where those terms mean respiratory care. See California Business and Professions Code 3704
(2) Any act of administering unsafe respiratory care procedures, protocols, therapeutic regimens, or diagnostic testing or monitoring techniques.
(3) Any act of abuse towards a patient.
(4) A violation of any provision of Section 3750.
(b) The board may determine unprofessional conduct involving any and all aspects of respiratory care performed by anyone licensed as a respiratory care practitioner.
(c) Any person who engages in repeated acts of unprofessional conduct shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000), or by imprisonment for a term not to exceed six months, or by both that fine and imprisonment.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 253, Sec. 3. (AB 923) Effective January 1, 2017.)