1. (1) In this Regulation, “admitted” means received and lodged in a hospital but does not include registered as an out-patient; (“admis”) “anaesthetic” means a general, spinal, or epidural anaesthetic or an intravenous anaesthetic or a regional nerve block for procedural anaesthesia, but does not include a mandibular nerve block for a dental procedure; (“anesthésie”) “attending dentist” means a member of the dental staff who attends a patient in the hospital; (“dentiste traitant”) “attending midwife” means a member of the midwifery staff who attends a patient in the hospital; (“sage-femme traitante”) “attending physician” means a member of the medical staff who attends a patient in the hospital; (“médecin traitant”) “attending registered nurse in the extended class” means a registered nurse in the extended class who attends a patient in the hospital; (“infirmière autorisée traitante de la catégorie supérieure, infirmier autorisé traitant”) “authenticate” means to identify oneself as the author of a document or a record by personal signature or by any other means authorized by the board; (“authentifier”) “birth” means the complete expulsion or extraction from its mother of a foetus that did at any time after being completely expelled or extracted from the mother breathe or show any other sign of life, whether or not the umbilical cord was cut or the placenta attached; (“naissance”) “chief nursing executive” means the senior nurse employed by the hospital who reports directly to the administrator and is responsible for nursing services provided in the hospital; (“chef de direction des soins infirmiers”) “critical incident” means any unintended event that occurs when a patient receives treatment in the hospital, (a) that results in death, or serious disability, injury or harm to the patient, and (b) does not result primarily from the patient’s underlying medical condition or from a known risk inherent in providing the treatment; (“incident critique”) “dental staff” means, (a) the oral and maxillofacial surgeons to whom the board has granted the privilege of diagnosing, prescribing for or treating patients in the hospital, and (b) the dentists to whom the board has granted the privilege of attending patients in the hospital in co-operation with a member of the medical staff; (“personnel dentaire”) “dentist” means a member of the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario; (“dentiste”) “extended class nursing staff” means those registered nurses in the extended class in a hospital, (a) who are employed by the hospital and are authorized to diagnose, prescribe for or treat patients in the hospital, and (b) who are not employed by the hospital and to whom the board has granted privileges to diagnose, prescribe for or treat patients in the hospital; (“personnel infirmier de la catégorie supérieure”) “medical staff” means those physicians to whom the board has granted privileges of diagnosing, prescribing for or treating patients in the hospital; (“personnel médical”) “midwife” means a member of the College of Midwives of Ontario; (“sage-femme”) “midwifery staff” means those midwives to whom the board has granted privileges of assessing, monitoring, prescribing for or treating patients in the hospital; (“personnel maïeutique”) “neonatal death” means the death of a child before the end of the six hundred and seventy-second hour after the birth of the child; (“décès néonatal”) “nurse” means, (a) a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario who is a registered nurse, or (b) a person who is exempted from subsections 11 (1) and (5) of the Nursing Act, 1991
by a regulation made under that Act and who holds, in another Canadian jurisdiction, the equivalent of a certificate of registration in the general or extended class for registered nurses in Ontario; (“infirmière ou infirmier”) “oral and maxillofacial surgeon” means a dentist who holds a specialty certificate from the Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario authorizing practice in oral and maxillofacial surgery; (“chirurgien buccal et maxillo-facial”) “photograph” means a reproduction made by any process that makes an exact copy of the original, whether or not the copy is the same size as the original; (“photographie”) “records of personal health information”, in respect to a patient, includes the patient’s medical record, notes, charts and any other material relating to patient care; (“dossiers de renseignements personnels sur la santé”) “registered nurse in the extended class” means, (a) a member of the College of Nurses of Ontario who is a registered nurse and who holds an extended certificate of registration under the Nursing Act, 1991, or (b) a person who is exempted from subsections 11 (1) and (5) of the Nursing Act, 1991
by a regulation made under that Act and who holds, in another Canadian jurisdiction, the equivalent of a certificate of registration in the extended class for registered nurses in Ontario; (“infirmière autorisée ou infirmier autorisé de la catégorie supérieure”) “still-birth” means still-birth within the meaning of the Vital Statistics Act; (“mortinaissance”) “surgeon” means a member of the medical staff or dental staff who performs a surgical operation on a patient in the hospital; (“chirurgien”) “writing” includes an entry in a computer. (“écrit”)  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 965, s. 1 (1); O. Reg. 761/93, s. 1; O. Reg. 45/98, s. 1; O. Reg. 346/01, s. 1 (1-3); O. Reg. 64/03, s. 1; O. Reg. 332/04, s. 1; O. Reg. 423/07, s. 1; O. Reg. 216/11, s. 1; O. Reg. 159/17, s. 1, 2; O. Reg. 289/19, s. 1; O. Reg. 206/23, s. 1. (2) For the purposes of this Regulation, a reference to a patient includes an out-patient, except where the context otherwise requires.  R.R.O. 1990, Reg. 965, s. 1 (2).