Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist
Unprofessional Conduct

CRNAs are expected to provide safe and effective care to all patients they serve. Examples of behavior that would be grounds for discipline against a CRNA certification include:

• Misappropriating medications, supplies, or personal items of a patient or agency.
• Violating the confidentiality of information or knowledge concerning the patient.
• Committing any act which endangers patient safety or welfare.
• Practice of the profession without a current active license or temporary permit.
• Failure of a certificate holder, who is subject of a disciplinary investigation, to furnish the Board or its investigator with requested information or requested documents.
• Falsification or misrepresentation of material facts in attempting to procure employment as an CRNA.
• Intentional falsification of material facts in a material document connected with the practice of nursing in the expanded role of anesthesia.
• Kissing, fondling, touching or engaging in any other activities of a sexual nature with a patient.
• Violating any term of probation, condition, or limitation imposed on the certificate holder by the Department.