NRS630A.350. Grounds for initiating disciplinary action or denying licensure: False application for license or certificate; 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 or certificate:

      1.  Willfully making a false or fraudulent statement or submitting a forged or false document in applying for a license to practice homeopathic medicine or a certificate to practice as an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or as a homeopathic assistant.

      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 or a certificate to practice as an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or as a homeopathic assistant by bribery, fraud or misrepresentation or by any false, misleading, inaccurate or incomplete statement.

      4.  Advertising the practice of homeopathic medicine or practice as an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or as a homeopathic assistant in a false, deceptive or misleading manner.

      5.  Practicing or attempting to practice homeopathic medicine, or practicing or attempting to practice as an advanced practitioner of homeopathy or as a homeopathic assistant, under a name other than the name under which the person practicing or attempting to practice is licensed or certified.

      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; 2013, 589)