RDHAP LAW AND ETHICS STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Prescriptions to Practice - ✔✔A) can provide services without written verification that
patient has had exam with DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice is CA
B) after 18 months since first date of service, must obtain written verification patient has
been examined by DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice in CA
C) prescription valid for time period based on dentist's it physician and surgeon's
professional judgement, but not to exceed two years from issue date
D) without obtaining prescription shall constitute unprofessional conduct on the part of
the RDHAP, and reason for committee to revoke or suspend license
✔✔Severe Child Neglect - ✔✔Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody
of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed
nonorganic failure to thrive. Being placed in situation which that his/her person or health
is endangered, including failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical
care.
✔✔General Child Neglect - ✔✔Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody
of a child to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where
no physical injury to the child has occured
✔✔Unlawful Corporal Punishment or Injury - ✔✔Situation where nay person willfully
inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman corporal punishment or injury resulting in a
traumatic condition.
✔✔Licensing Agency - ✔✔State Department of Social Services office responsible for
the licensing and enforcement of the California Community Care Facilities Act, the
California Child Day Care Act, or the county licensing agency which has contracted with
the state for performance of those duties
✔✔Unfounded Report - ✔✔A report that is determined by the investigator who
conducted the investigation to be false, to be inherently improbable, to involve an
accidental injury, or not to constitute child abuse or neglect
✔✔Substantiated Report - ✔✔Report that is determined by the investigator to constitute
child abuse or neglect based upon evidence has occurred
✔✔Inconclusive Report - ✔✔Report that is determined by the investigator that the
findings are inconclusive and there is insufficient evidence to determine whether child
abuse or neglect.
✔✔Child Mandated Reporting - ✔✔A) Initial report by telephone immediately or as soon
as practicably possible including name, business address, and telephone number of
mandated reporter
, B) Prepare and send, fax, or electronically transmit a written followup report within 36
hours of receiving the information concerning the incident
C) If cannot make phone call, must make a one-time automated written report on the
form prescribed by Department of Justice, and shall be available to respond to
telephone follow up
D) Failure to report is guilty of misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months confinement
in county jail or by a fine of $1,000 or by both that imprisonment and fine
E) Failure to report that is resulting in death or great bodily injury shall be punished by
not more than one year in county jail, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both that
fine and imprisonment.
✔✔Child Reasonable Suspicion - ✔✔Objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a
suspicion, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position,
drawing, when appropriate, on his/her training and experience, to suspect child abuse
or neglect.
✔✔Film Depiction - ✔✔Anyone under age of 16 must be reported immediately with
follow up hard copy within 36 hours of receiving information.
✔✔Multiple Mandated Reporters - ✔✔If two or more mandated reports witnessed the
same incident, one can make report in representation of other reports if in agreement
✔✔County Probation/Welfare Department Reporting - ✔✔Must report within 24 hours
✔✔Child Mandated Reporting Confidentiality - ✔✔If violated is misdemeanor with no
more than six months in county jail and fine of $500, or by both that imprisonment and
fine
✔✔Child Neglect and Xrays - ✔✔May be taken without parental consent if neglect is
suspected
✔✔Elder Abandonment - ✔✔Desertion or will forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult
by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a
reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state,
or the restraint from returning to this state, of any elder or dependent adult who does not
have the capacity to consent to the removal from this state and the restraint from
returning to this state etc
✔✔Abuse of an elder or a dependent adult - ✔✔A) Physical abuse, neglect,
abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other tx with resulting harm or pain or mental
suffering
B) Deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that are necessary to avoid
physical harm or mental suffering
SOLUTIONS 2025/2026 GRADED A+
✔✔Prescriptions to Practice - ✔✔A) can provide services without written verification that
patient has had exam with DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice is CA
B) after 18 months since first date of service, must obtain written verification patient has
been examined by DDS, physician and surgeon licensed to practice in CA
C) prescription valid for time period based on dentist's it physician and surgeon's
professional judgement, but not to exceed two years from issue date
D) without obtaining prescription shall constitute unprofessional conduct on the part of
the RDHAP, and reason for committee to revoke or suspend license
✔✔Severe Child Neglect - ✔✔Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody
of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed
nonorganic failure to thrive. Being placed in situation which that his/her person or health
is endangered, including failure to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, or medical
care.
✔✔General Child Neglect - ✔✔Negligent failure of a person having the care or custody
of a child to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where
no physical injury to the child has occured
✔✔Unlawful Corporal Punishment or Injury - ✔✔Situation where nay person willfully
inflicts upon any child any cruel or inhuman corporal punishment or injury resulting in a
traumatic condition.
✔✔Licensing Agency - ✔✔State Department of Social Services office responsible for
the licensing and enforcement of the California Community Care Facilities Act, the
California Child Day Care Act, or the county licensing agency which has contracted with
the state for performance of those duties
✔✔Unfounded Report - ✔✔A report that is determined by the investigator who
conducted the investigation to be false, to be inherently improbable, to involve an
accidental injury, or not to constitute child abuse or neglect
✔✔Substantiated Report - ✔✔Report that is determined by the investigator to constitute
child abuse or neglect based upon evidence has occurred
✔✔Inconclusive Report - ✔✔Report that is determined by the investigator that the
findings are inconclusive and there is insufficient evidence to determine whether child
abuse or neglect.
✔✔Child Mandated Reporting - ✔✔A) Initial report by telephone immediately or as soon
as practicably possible including name, business address, and telephone number of
mandated reporter
, B) Prepare and send, fax, or electronically transmit a written followup report within 36
hours of receiving the information concerning the incident
C) If cannot make phone call, must make a one-time automated written report on the
form prescribed by Department of Justice, and shall be available to respond to
telephone follow up
D) Failure to report is guilty of misdemeanor punishable by up to 6 months confinement
in county jail or by a fine of $1,000 or by both that imprisonment and fine
E) Failure to report that is resulting in death or great bodily injury shall be punished by
not more than one year in county jail, by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both that
fine and imprisonment.
✔✔Child Reasonable Suspicion - ✔✔Objectively reasonable for a person to entertain a
suspicion, based upon facts that could cause a reasonable person in a like position,
drawing, when appropriate, on his/her training and experience, to suspect child abuse
or neglect.
✔✔Film Depiction - ✔✔Anyone under age of 16 must be reported immediately with
follow up hard copy within 36 hours of receiving information.
✔✔Multiple Mandated Reporters - ✔✔If two or more mandated reports witnessed the
same incident, one can make report in representation of other reports if in agreement
✔✔County Probation/Welfare Department Reporting - ✔✔Must report within 24 hours
✔✔Child Mandated Reporting Confidentiality - ✔✔If violated is misdemeanor with no
more than six months in county jail and fine of $500, or by both that imprisonment and
fine
✔✔Child Neglect and Xrays - ✔✔May be taken without parental consent if neglect is
suspected
✔✔Elder Abandonment - ✔✔Desertion or will forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult
by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a
reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody
✔✔Abduction - ✔✔Removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state,
or the restraint from returning to this state, of any elder or dependent adult who does not
have the capacity to consent to the removal from this state and the restraint from
returning to this state etc
✔✔Abuse of an elder or a dependent adult - ✔✔A) Physical abuse, neglect,
abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other tx with resulting harm or pain or mental
suffering
B) Deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that are necessary to avoid
physical harm or mental suffering
