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Docket No. 14-790
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion request regarding Mary Trosclair contracting to provide additional services to Tulane Medical Center while she is employed by Charity School of Nursing.
Facts:
Ms.Trosclair is an instructor employed by Delgado and Charity School of Nursing. Ms. Trosclair has requested an advisory opinion regarding whether she would be prohibited by the Code from contracting to provide additional services to Tulane Medical Center while she is employed by Charity School of Nursing.

Ms. Trosclair has stated that Tulane has started a TeamSTEPPS (Team strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety) program to enhance patient safety. She has also stated that she has already contracted with Tulane to teach courses in the TeamSTEPPS program and she has been asked to increase her duties at TeamSTEPPS. Ms. Trosclair has stated that Tulane does not have a contract with her agency as an instructor for Charity/Delgado School of Nursing.

Law:
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) prohibits a public servant and a legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest from receiving any thing of economic value for services rendered to or for any person during his public service unless such services are neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such public servant would be prohibited by La. R.S. 42:1115(A)(1) or (B) from receiving a gift.
La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) prohibits a public servant from soliciting or accepting, directly or indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to have a contractual, business or financial relationship with the public servant's agency.

Recommendations:
Decline to render due to past conduct.
Assigned Attorney: Suzanne Mooney
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2014-790: Advisory Opinion Request
2014-790- Additional Information