Questions:

1. Under what circumstances does the therapist communicate information regarding bodily injury to a potential victim?
2. What is the timeliness procedure for presenting requested records?
3. Under what circumstances does the licensed health care practitioner inform a patient or individual about adverse incidents?
4. What would be grounds for discipline, penalties, enforcement?
5. Any officer, employee, or person under contract with the department, or any board therein, or any subject of an investigation shall be prohibited from doing what?
6. For any practitioner who indicates they could assist the department in the event of a natural disaster, what would the practitioner be able to provide?

Answers:

A. Incidents that result in serious harm to the patient.
B. Conveying knowledge or information to any person who is not lawfully entitled to such knowledge or information about any public meeting or public record, which at the time such knowledge or information is conveyed is exempt from the provisions of s. 119.01, s. 119.07(1), or s. 286.011.
C. When a patient or client has communicated to the person licensed or certified under this chapter a specific threat to cause serious bodily injury or death to an identified or readily available person, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter makes a clinical judgment that the patient or client has the apparent intent and ability to imminently or immediately carry out such threat, and the person licensed or certified under this chapter communicates the information to the potential victim.
D. Health care services in special needs shelters or to help staff disaster medical assistance teams during time of emergency or major disaster, the names of practitioners who answer affirmatively shall be maintained by the department as a health care provider registry for disasters and emergencies.
E. To furnish, in a timely manner, without delays for legal review, copies of all reports and records relating to such examination or treatment, including X rays and insurance information.
F. Practicing or offering to practice beyond the scope permitted by law or accepting and performing professional responsibilities the licensee knows, or has reason to know, the licensee is not competent to perform.