{"data":{"id":"us-ut/utah-code-58-44a-502","jurisdiction":"us-ut","citation":"Utah Code § 58-44a-502","heading":"Unprofessional conduct.","body":"\"Unprofessional conduct\" includes:\n(1) disregard for a patient's dignity or right to privacy as to the patient's person, condition, possessions, or medical record;\n(2) engaging in an act, practice, or omission which when considered with the duties and responsibilities of a certified nurse midwife does or could jeopardize the health, safety, or welfare of a patient or the public;\n(3) failure to confine one's practice as a certified nurse midwife to those acts or practices permitted by law;\n(4) failure to file or record any medical report as required by law, impeding or obstructing the filing or recording of such a report, or inducing another to fail to file or record such a report;\n(5) breach of a statutory, common law, regulatory, or ethical requirement of confidentiality with respect to a person who is a patient, unless ordered by the court;\n(6) failure to pay a penalty imposed by the division;\n(7) prescribing a schedule II-III controlled substance without a consulting physician;\n(8) performing or inducing an abortion in violation of the requirements of Section 76-7-302 or Section 76-7a-201, regardless of whether the individual licensed under this chapter is found guilty of a crime in connection with the violation;\n(9)\n(a) failure to have and maintain a safe mechanism for obtaining medical consultation, collaboration, and referral with a consulting physician, including failure to identify one or more consulting physicians in the written documents required by Subsection 58-44a-102(9)(b)(iii); or\n(b) representing that the certified nurse midwife is in compliance with Subsection (9)(a) when the certified nurse midwife is not in compliance with Subsection (9)(a); or\n(10) falsely making an entry in, or altering, a medical record with the intent to conceal:\n(a) a wrongful or negligent act or omission of an individual licensed under this chapter or an individual under the direction or control of an individual licensed under this chapter; or\n(b) conduct described in Subsections (1) through (9) or Subsection 58-1-501(1).","path":["Title 58 Occupations and Professions","Chapter 58-44a Nurse Midwife Practice Act","Part 58-44a-5 Unlawful and Unprofessional Conduct - Penalties"],"source_url":"https://le.utah.gov/xcode/Title58/Chapter44a/58-44a-S502.html","current_through":"2026 General Session","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T11:34:33Z","sha256":"6ec21682131af978e06ff0257380fb54e3ddc5c3cbb844a9a9dbc3cd11188b00","source_id":"us-ut","stale":false,"prev":"us-ut/utah-code-58-44a-501","next":"us-ut/utah-code-58-44a-503"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}