The board has the power to suspend or revoke the licenses of medical laboratory personnel or special analysts or to deny the issuance of a license or a registration certificate whenever medical laboratory personnel or special analysts commit any of the following offenses:

(1) Making a false statement on an application for a license or any other document required by the board;

Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-127

  • Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Medical laboratory personnel: includes the medical laboratory director, supervisor, technologist, or technician, but does not include medical laboratory assistants, trainees, or other persons employed by a medical laboratory to perform clerical or other administrative responsibilities involving no laboratory test. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Person: means any individual, firm, partnership, association, corporation, municipality, political subdivision, or any other entity whether organized for profit or not. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
(2) Engaging or attempting to engage or representing oneself as entitled to perform any medical laboratory procedure or category of procedures not authorized in such person‘s license;
(3) Demonstrating incompetence or making consistent errors in the performance of medical laboratory examinations or procedures;
(4) Reporting that is erroneous;
(5) Performing a test and rendering a report on a test to a person not authorized by law to receive such services;
(6) Having been convicted of a felony or of any crime involving moral turpitude under the laws of any state or of the United States. The record of conviction or a certified copy of the record shall be conclusive evidence of such conviction;
(7) Providing professional services while mentally incompetent, or under the influence of alcohol, a narcotic, or other controlled, dangerous substance that is in excess of therapeutic amounts or without valid medical indication;
(8) Violating or aiding and abetting in the violation of any provisions of this chapter or the rules or regulations promulgated under this chapter;
(9) Immoral or unethical conduct; or
(10) Fraudulent advertising for patronage of the general public by means of bills, posters, circulars, letters, newspapers, magazines, directories, radio, television, or any other medium.
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