1. (a) Providers must plan, adequately supervise, and evaluate all activities for which they are responsible.
2. (b) Providers must render services carefully and promptly.
3. (c) Providers must follow the technical and ethical standards related to the provision of services, strive continually to improve personal competence and quality of service delivery, and discharge their professional responsibilities to the best of their abilities.
4. (d) Providers are responsible for assessing the adequacy of their own competence for the responsibility to be assumed.
5. (e) Services must be designed and administered as to do no harm to recipients.
6. (f) Providers must always act in the best interest of the individual being served.
7. (g) Providers must terminate any professional relationship that is not beneficial, or is in any way detrimental, to the individual being served.

Source Note:The provisions of this §353.203 adopted to be effective February 28, 2018, 43 TexReg 892.