CALIFORNIA OPTOMETRY LAW EXAMS SCRIPT UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Using a revoked/suspended/fradulently altered license - ✔✔misdemenor
✔✔fictitious license - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Lends license to person not licensed - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Displays or represents any license not issued to him/her as being his/hers -
✔✔misdemeaor
✔✔Fails or refuses to surrender a license which has been suspended, revoked or
cancelled. - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔knowingly permits an unlawful use of a license issued to him or her -
✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Photographs, duplicates, manufactures, or in any way reproduces any license or
facsimile thereof in a manner that it could be mistaken for a valid license, -
✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Buys or receives a fraudulent, forged, or counterfeited license knowing that it is
fraudulent, forged, or counterfeited. - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔allows his or her license to be used by another person - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔engaging in any conduct which subverts or attempts to subvert any licensing
examination
- Violating the security of the exam materials
- removing the exam from the room
- talking to any other person during the xam - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Directly or indirectly accepting employment to practice optometry from any person
not having a valid, unrevoked license as an optometrist or from any company or
corporation constitutes - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔gross negligence - ✔✔Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a
duty or standard of care.
✔✔What happens with unprofessional conduct - ✔✔the board may take action against
and person charged with unprofessional conduct... and may deny license
, ✔✔gross negligence is... - ✔✔unprofessional conduct and defined as Conduct that
constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.
✔✔Repeated negligent acts or omissions (2 or more) - ✔✔Unprofessional conduct
DEF: Breach of standard of care that may cause harm or injury to patient.
(Std of care is breached when practitioner fails to possess or exercise the degree of
learning, skill, knowledge, and care in Dx/Tx of a pt that would be expected of a
practitioner in good standing in the same or similar locality and under similar
circumstances, and that failure causes injury to the patient)
✔✔Incompetence - ✔✔Unprofessional conduct
lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
✔✔Denial of licensure, revocation, suspension, restriction, or any other disciplinary
action against a health care professional license by another state or territory of the
United States - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Conviction of a felony or of any offense substantially related to the qualifications,
functions, and duties of - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔The commission of fraud, misrepresentation, or any act involving dishonesty or
corruption, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of an
optometrist. - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔register as a sex offender pursuant to Chapter 5.5 - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Repeated acts of excessive prescribing or administering of drugs or treatment -
✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔repeated acts of excessive use of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures -
✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Prescribing, furnishing, administering controlled substance, drugs or treatment
without good faith prior exam or optometric reason - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Performing, holding to be capable to perform, or offering to perform services outside
scope of OD - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Failure to maintain adequate/accurate records (may be professional inefficiency
also) - ✔✔unprofessional conduct and professional ineffecency
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Using a revoked/suspended/fradulently altered license - ✔✔misdemenor
✔✔fictitious license - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Lends license to person not licensed - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Displays or represents any license not issued to him/her as being his/hers -
✔✔misdemeaor
✔✔Fails or refuses to surrender a license which has been suspended, revoked or
cancelled. - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔knowingly permits an unlawful use of a license issued to him or her -
✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Photographs, duplicates, manufactures, or in any way reproduces any license or
facsimile thereof in a manner that it could be mistaken for a valid license, -
✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Buys or receives a fraudulent, forged, or counterfeited license knowing that it is
fraudulent, forged, or counterfeited. - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔allows his or her license to be used by another person - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔engaging in any conduct which subverts or attempts to subvert any licensing
examination
- Violating the security of the exam materials
- removing the exam from the room
- talking to any other person during the xam - ✔✔misdemeanor
✔✔Directly or indirectly accepting employment to practice optometry from any person
not having a valid, unrevoked license as an optometrist or from any company or
corporation constitutes - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔gross negligence - ✔✔Conduct that constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a
duty or standard of care.
✔✔What happens with unprofessional conduct - ✔✔the board may take action against
and person charged with unprofessional conduct... and may deny license
, ✔✔gross negligence is... - ✔✔unprofessional conduct and defined as Conduct that
constitutes a willful or reckless disregard for a duty or standard of care.
✔✔Repeated negligent acts or omissions (2 or more) - ✔✔Unprofessional conduct
DEF: Breach of standard of care that may cause harm or injury to patient.
(Std of care is breached when practitioner fails to possess or exercise the degree of
learning, skill, knowledge, and care in Dx/Tx of a pt that would be expected of a
practitioner in good standing in the same or similar locality and under similar
circumstances, and that failure causes injury to the patient)
✔✔Incompetence - ✔✔Unprofessional conduct
lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
✔✔Denial of licensure, revocation, suspension, restriction, or any other disciplinary
action against a health care professional license by another state or territory of the
United States - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Conviction of a felony or of any offense substantially related to the qualifications,
functions, and duties of - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔The commission of fraud, misrepresentation, or any act involving dishonesty or
corruption, that is substantially related to the qualifications, functions, or duties of an
optometrist. - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔register as a sex offender pursuant to Chapter 5.5 - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Repeated acts of excessive prescribing or administering of drugs or treatment -
✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔repeated acts of excessive use of diagnostic or therapeutic procedures -
✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Prescribing, furnishing, administering controlled substance, drugs or treatment
without good faith prior exam or optometric reason - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Performing, holding to be capable to perform, or offering to perform services outside
scope of OD - ✔✔unprofessional conduct
✔✔Failure to maintain adequate/accurate records (may be professional inefficiency
also) - ✔✔unprofessional conduct and professional ineffecency
