Professional Issues

Fine of $50 per month fine for up to 12 months (major violation after that)

Fine of $100 for each CE hour you are short of the required 20 hrs/2 years

Assuring the quality of services

Offer clients freedom of choice and providing information needed for informed choices

Maintaining inter- and intra-professional relationships that are in the best interests of clients/patients

• Never transferring our ethical responsibilities to employers,
• administrators, or supervisors to whom we report

Shocking someone for answering questions incorrectly

• 60% increased the shock all the way to 450 volts
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• Males and females were equally likely to inflict pain
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• Tendency to devalue the “learners” when increasing voltage

• Beginning of Practice
• Eager to find and maintain income   
• High paying CF may be attractive in face of high student loan debt
• May believe that ethics is all talk and no action        
• Unfamiliar with the responsibilities of a practicing professional

• Mid-Career
• May not be familiar with changes to codes        
• Financial demands of family responsibilities may be peaking
• May want to demonstrate loyalty for possible promotion

• Latter Part of Career
• Retirement pension may be linked to same employer
• Fear of employer seeking reason to eliminate higher paid employees
• May not have maintained contemporary knowledge and skills

• Intent to embarrass, frustrate, or damage a colleague (e.g., former employer, employee, partners, or competitor) with whom you have “issues”
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• Attempt to eliminate undesirable word
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• Attempt to elevate one’s status

Knee-jerk response based on limited information and/or heightened emotional state

Create rules that don’t affect you, but impact on your competition or enemies

• Members of ASHA
• Individuals with current CCC        
• Applicants for ASHA membership and/or certification
• Clinical fellows

• 6 SLPs
• 5 audiologists
• 1 public member        
• Director of Ethics (Ex Officio)
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• -3 year term
• -Volunteers

reprimand

censure

Revocation

suspension

withholding

• 2 public members
• 1 SLP
• 1 audiologist
• 2 teachers of the hearing impaired
• 2 members at large
• 2 physicians       
• Commissioner
• Can be an SLP, audiologist or teacher of the HI, but no profession can have more than two reps

name of agency, recent photo, name, and job title

• Preparing, maintaining and retaining records
• Code of Ethics
• Unprofessional conduct
• Fraud or deceit

• o   4 principles
• o   44 rules

• 6 principles
• 22 rules
• 16 proscriptions

• Failing to provide necessary care or products
• Advertising professional services in a misleading way
• Guaranteeing effectiveness of services for individual
• Being disciplined by a license of another state
• Committing act of gross negligence
• Withdrawing services without informing person
• Harassing/abusing person served
• Practicing with a suspended license
• Knowingly aiding something without license
• Misrepresenting material
• Being convicted or pleading guilty to a felony
• Providing services or promoting sale of products to person who won’t benefit from them
• Failing to comply with the act
• Failing to comply with rule adopted by the board
• Misrepresenting credentials

• Graduate students in clinic
• Clinical fellows
• Support personnel
• B.A. level clinicians in schools providing services to children
• eligible for Medicaid       

• Assist with screenings with interpretation  
• Assist with informal documentation     
• Follow documented TP 
• Document patient performance     
• Assist during assessment     
• Clerical duties      
• Perform checks and maintenance of equipment     
• Assist with research, in service training, and PR     
• Assist with departmental operations
• Recording, charting, graphing or otherwise displaying of data which reflects the performance of individual
• Preparing clinical materials including ear molds
• Testing hearing aids   
• Participating with the licensee in research projects, in service
• training, public relation programs

• CCC-SLP and state licensed  
• Wants to employ support personnel   
• 2+ years of experience post initial CCC    
• At least one course or CEU in supervision (recommended)    
• Minimum of 20% direct and 1-% indirect supervision weekly for first 90 days for each SLPA   
• Direct contact with all patients at one 1X every 2 weeks 
• Weekly review of data on every patient seen be the SLPA that week
• Maximum of three SLPAs at one time

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Rockville, MD

• 53 SLPs (1 from each state, 1 DC, 1 international, and 1 NSSLHA)   
• 53 audiologists (1 from each state, 1 DC, 1 international, and 1 NSSLHA)

• Two professions, one discipline       
• Scientifically based professional practices  
• Advocacy    
• Member experience

1997

• Publish 1-4 issues of Perspectives annually    
• Offer CEUs via self-study from Perspectives    
• Affiliates only email list and forum area on ASHA website 
• Offer one short course and on invited seminar at ASHA convention     
• Hold general meeting annually

• Higher quality of care provided to patients/clients       
• Practitioners with advanced knowledge and skills can be recognized by consumers, colleagues, referral and payor sources, etc.      
• Career ladders- people want to be able to advance

• ASHA certification     
• Post CCC education and experience
• Assessment of knowledge and skills in the specialty area (exam or portfolio review)
• Mechanism for renewal 

• swallowing
• fluency
• child language