| (1) | "Unprofessional conduct" includes:
| (a) | violation of a patient confidence to any person that does not have a legal right and a professional need to know the information concerning the patient; |
| (b) | knowingly prescribing, selling, giving away, or directly or indirectly administering, or offering to prescribe, sell, furnish, give away, or administer any prescription drug except for a legitimate medical purpose upon a proper diagnosis indicating use of that drug in the amounts prescribed or provided; |
| (c) | prescribing prescription drugs for oneself or administering prescription drugs to oneself, except those that have been legally prescribed for the physician assistant by a licensed practitioner and that are used in accordance with the prescription order for the condition diagnosed; |
| (d) | in a practice that has physician assistant ownership interests, failure to allow a physician the independent final decision making authority on treatment decisions for the physician's patient; |
| (e) | violating the dispensing requirements of Chapter 17b, Part 8, Dispensing Medical Practitioner and Dispensing Medical Practitioner Clinic Pharmacy, or Chapter 88, Part 2, Dispensing Practice, if applicable; |
| (f) | falsely making an entry in, or altering, a medical record with the intent to conceal:
| (i) | 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 |
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| (g) | violating the requirements of Title 26B, Chapter 4, Part 2, Cannabinoid Research and Medical Cannabis; or |
| (h) | designating a child as do not resuscitate without parental consent. |
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