US Politics -- O&P licensing
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US Politics -- O&P licensing
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I recently became licensed in O&P in Florida. I have three questions. The
first applies equally to Florida, Texas, or any other state. The next two
apply only to Florida.
1) What letters should I use after my name? I am a CPO.
I've seen practitioners who only use LPO, which is OK, but there are
licensed people were grandfathered in who don't have ABC credentials. I
earned those credentials and hate to abandon them.
I've seen practitioners who use CPO, LPO or LPO, CPO. This seems a
little lengthy and repetitive.
I think I'd like to use CLPO, but I haven't seen anyone else doing so.
Comments?
2) The actual license says DISPLAY AS REQUIRED BY LAW. What is the law?
Like the occupational license, must it be displayed where you practice?
If so, what if a practitioner practices in more than one location? Does
he or she need to obtain duplicates?
3) I attended an excellent and very informative lecture by Morris Gallo in
Captiva last year in which he said that it is the obligation, not merely the
right, of a licensed practitioner to blow the whistle on unlicensed people
who are practicing, and further, that if a licensed practitioner allows other
people in his or her employ to practice without a license, the licensed
practitioner can lost his or her license.
Is this true? (I may have gotten it wrong.) If it is true, what about a
licensed non-owner who works with unlicensed people who treat patients. Do
they have an obligation (with the potential penalty of losing their license)
of turning in their co-workers? This, in some cases, could cost them their
job!
I have to say, I'm not a big fan of the idea of forced whisteblowing. Is
this really part of the Florida licensure law?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
David Hendricks, CPO, LPO, CLPO, LCPO, and just you wait until next month
when I add FAAOP to that! :-)
first applies equally to Florida, Texas, or any other state. The next two
apply only to Florida.
1) What letters should I use after my name? I am a CPO.
I've seen practitioners who only use LPO, which is OK, but there are
licensed people were grandfathered in who don't have ABC credentials. I
earned those credentials and hate to abandon them.
I've seen practitioners who use CPO, LPO or LPO, CPO. This seems a
little lengthy and repetitive.
I think I'd like to use CLPO, but I haven't seen anyone else doing so.
Comments?
2) The actual license says DISPLAY AS REQUIRED BY LAW. What is the law?
Like the occupational license, must it be displayed where you practice?
If so, what if a practitioner practices in more than one location? Does
he or she need to obtain duplicates?
3) I attended an excellent and very informative lecture by Morris Gallo in
Captiva last year in which he said that it is the obligation, not merely the
right, of a licensed practitioner to blow the whistle on unlicensed people
who are practicing, and further, that if a licensed practitioner allows other
people in his or her employ to practice without a license, the licensed
practitioner can lost his or her license.
Is this true? (I may have gotten it wrong.) If it is true, what about a
licensed non-owner who works with unlicensed people who treat patients. Do
they have an obligation (with the potential penalty of losing their license)
of turning in their co-workers? This, in some cases, could cost them their
job!
I have to say, I'm not a big fan of the idea of forced whisteblowing. Is
this really part of the Florida licensure law?
Thanks, in advance, for your responses.
David Hendricks, CPO, LPO, CLPO, LCPO, and just you wait until next month
when I add FAAOP to that! :-)
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“US Politics -- O&P licensing,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 7, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/213252.
