California Code of Regulations › Title 16 - Professional and Vocational Regulations › Division 14 - Board of Registered Nursing › Article 8 - Nurse Practitioners › Section 1480 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) "Acute care"
				means restorative care provided by the nurse practitioner to patients with
				rapidly changing, unstable, chronic, complex acute, and critical conditions in
				a variety of clinical practice settings.
(b) "Advanced health assessment" means the
				knowledge of advanced processes of collecting and interpreting information
				regarding a patient's health care status. Advanced health assessment provides
				the basis for differential diagnoses and treatment plans.
(c) "Advanced pathophysiology" means the
				advanced knowledge and management of physiological disruptions that accompany a
				wide range of alterations in health.
(d) "Advanced pharmacology" means the
				integration of the advanced knowledge of pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, and
				pharmacodynamics content across the lifespan and prepares the certified nurse
				practitioner to initiate appropriate pharmacotherapeutics safely and
				effectively in the management of acute and chronic health conditions.
(e) "California based nurse practitioner
				education program" means a board approved academic program, physically located
				in California that offers a graduate degree in nursing or graduate level
				certificate in nursing to qualified students and is accredited by a nursing
				organization recognized by the United States Department of Education or the
				Council of Higher Education Accreditation.
(f) "Category" means the population focused
				area of practice in which the certified nurse practitioner provides patient
				care.
(g) "Clinically competent"
				means the individual possesses and exercises the degree of learning, skill,
				care, and experience ordinarily possessed and exercised by a certified nurse
				practitioner providing healthcare in the same nurse practitioner category. The
				clinical experience must be such that the nurse received intensive experience
				in performing the diagnostic and treatment procedures essential to the
				provision of primary care.
(h)
				"Clinical field related to nursing" means a specialized field of clinical
				practice in one of the following categories of nurse practitioners as
				recognized by the National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties NONPF),
				which are: Family/Individual across the lifespan; Adult-gerontology, primary
				care; Adult-gerontology, acute care; Neonatal; Pediatrics, primary care;
				Pediatrics, acute care; Women's health/gender-related; and Psychiatric-Mental
				Health across the lifespan.
(i)
				"Clinical practice experience" means supervised direct patient care in the
				clinical setting that provides for the acquisition and application of advanced
				practice nursing knowledge, skills, and competencies.
(j) "Direct supervision of students" means a
				clinical preceptor or a faculty member is physically present at the practice
				site. The clinical preceptor or faculty member retains the responsibility for
				patient care while overseeing the student.
(k) "Group setting" means one of the settings
				or organizations set forth in Section
				2837.103(a)(2) of
				the code in which one or more physicians and surgeons practice with a nurse
				practitioner without standardized procedures.
(l) "Lead nurse practitioner faculty
				educator" means the nurse practitioner faculty member of the nurse practitioner
				education program who has administrative responsibility for developing and
				implementing the curriculum in the nurse practitioner category.
(m) "Major curriculum change" means a
				substantive change in a nurse practitioner education program curriculum,
				structure, content, method of delivery, or clinical hours.
(n) "National Certification" means the
				certified nurse practitioner has passed an examination provided by a national
				certification organization accredited by the National Commission for Certifying
				Agencies or the American Board of Nursing Specialties, as approved by the
				board.
(o) "Nurse practitioner"
				means an advanced practice registered nurse who meets board education and
				certification requirements and possesses additional advanced practice
				educational preparation and skills in physical diagnosis, psycho-social
				assessment, and management of health-illness needs in primary care, and/or
				acute care.
(p) "Nurse practitioner
				curriculum" means a curriculum that consists of the graduate core; advanced
				practice registered nursing core, and nurse practitioner role and
				population-focused courses.
(1) "Graduate
				core" means the foundational curriculum content deemed essential for all
				students pursuing a graduate degree in nursing.
(2) "Advanced practice registered nursing
				core" means the essential broad-based curriculum required for all nurse
				practitioner students in the areas of advanced health assessment, advanced
				pathophysiology, and advanced pharmacology.