NAC228.117. Professional responsibility regarding offenders.

The organization that operates a program shall ensure that a provider of treatment or supervisor of treatment employed, or retained as an independent contractor, at a program:

     1. Shall provide treatment with professional skill and competence;

     2. Shall refrain from entering into a sexual relationship with any offender or victim of any offender during the time that the offender is receiving treatment by the program and for 2 years after the termination of treatment;

     3. Shall refrain from entering into a dual relationship with any offender receiving treatment by the program or any victim of any offender receiving treatment by the program;

     4. Shall not practice, condone, facilitate or collaborate with any form of discrimination on the basis of race, color, sex, sexual orientation, age, religion, national origin, social, economic, health or marital status, political belief, diagnosis, mental or physical disability, or any preference or personal characteristic, condition or status; and

     5. Shall not influence or attempt to influence an offender in any manner which could be reasonably anticipated in his or her deriving benefits of an unprofessional nature from the offender during the time that the offender is receiving treatment from the provider of treatment or supervisor of treatment and for 2 years after the termination of those services.

     (Added to NAC by Com. on Domestic Violence by R048-13, eff. 2-26-2014)