Let's Form a Committee
This committee is responsible for creating and amending the code of ethics for SLPs & Assistants, developing ethics education materials for distribution, and adjudicating complaints of unethical behavior.
ASHA Board of Ethics
These ASHA committees abbreviate to BOD and BOE
What are the Board of Directors and Board of Ethics
When an SLP is tasked with choosing between two possible students to supervise and one of them is from their home state.
Perceived - the SLP does not stand to gain personally, professionally, or financially, but may be making the decision through unconscious in-group bias
A clinician in Pennsylvania admitted to practicing without a license for 27 cumulative years and to receiving discipline in 2020 from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth State Board of Examiners of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology.
What is Principles III and IV
The act of choosing to ignore ethical misconduct, possibly out of discomfort or fear.
Willful Blindness
This ASHA 'committee' has the final say on any amendments to the code of ethics
ASHA Board of Directors
ASHA, the ADA, and AAA each have a COE.
Code of Ethics
If ASHA were to begin paying for commercial advertisements on TV about how great the field of speech-language pathology is
Real - ASHA would stand to gain financial improvements from the increased advertisements
A clinician in Tennessee failed to self-report receiving professional discipline for: unprofessional conduct; making false statements on billing records; and instructing their front office staff to bill a private insurance provider for services provided to numerous patients in the name of a former employee who did not render those services.
What is Principles I, III, and IV
A nine-step framework to support clinical judgement, decision-making, and justification of the decision
Kitter Model
This subcommittee of the ASHA Board of Directors appoints members to the Board of Ethics.
Committee on Committees
Unlike Magnum, this PI is in charge of a research project or activity - particularly the budget, administration, and intellectual conduct.
Primary/ Principal Investigator
The parents of a client as you to come by their home so that the parents can offer the you a gift of an undisclosed amount of money because as a token of gratitude. If the you were to accept, it would be this kind of conflict of interest.
Personal or Financial.
A clinician in California received professional discipline for performing low-level laser treatment on children with apraxia, nonverbal autism, and Down syndrome (not considered EBP in the field of speech-language pathology); for providing services outside the SLP scope of practice; and for misrepresenting their credentials and services provided.
Principles I-IV (all 4)
This expression of official disapproval is published in the ASHA Leader + the ASHA website, as well as sent to the state licensure body.
Censure
This subcommittee of the ASHA Board of Ethics is formed of volunteer members in their final year, and produces educational materials on ethics.
Ethics Education Subcommittee
Accountable care among all professionals involved with a patient needs increased cooperation and communication between practices; these practices are often abbreviated to IPP and IPE.
Interprofessional Practice and Interprofessional Education
A clinician begins doubly billing their clients for single moments of service delivery, so that they can save up to pay for their doctorate program they plan to complete in two years. This is an example of these types of conflicts.
Personal, financial, and professional
A clinician in Washington, D.C., pled guilty in Maryland criminal court to defrauding Maryland Medicaid of more than $1,000,000 by continuously billing approximately 40 Medicaid recipients for services at a rate of 7 days per week for 2-5 years. Failed to self-report their felony guilty plea and receipt of public discipline.
Principles I, III, and IV
This measure used to punish is also an action taken to enforce a law or rule.
Sanctions
This panel is made of three members of the ASHA Board of Directors
ASHA Ethics Appeal Panel
VBHC, the V-BID, HVPA and ACOs are all connected to this general idea.
Accountability related to health care value and/or costs.
T/F: It is unethical for SLPs to be paid for the services they provide.
False; commensurate compensation for services rendered is normal and ethical.
A clinician was convicted in Virginia criminal court of attempted second-degree murder, conspiracy to commit robbery, and possession of a controlled substance.
Principle IV
The process of acting as a judge to make an official decision about who is right in (a dispute); to settle judicially.
Adjudication