Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 20 - Professional and Occupational Licensing, Certification › 90 - The Board of Examiners for Nursing and Requirements for Registration of Professional Nurses and Certification of Licensed Practical Nurses › General › Section 20-90-45 - Definition of terms

Current through July 10, 2024
As used in sections 20-90-45 to sections
				  20-90-56,
				  inclusive, of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies:
(1) "Academic Semester" means the semester
				length as established by policy by the parent institution;
(2) "Accreditation" means a level of quality
				achieved by educational programs and clinical facilities which have
				participated in voluntary evaluation by recognized agencies using predetermined
				criteria;
(3) "Administrator" means
				the registered nurse educator responsible for policies, contracts, curriculum,
				and overall administration of a nursing education program;
(4) "Admission with advanced standing" means
				academic credit for previous education or experience is given to a
				student;
(5) "Advanced degree in
				nursing" means a master's or doctoral degree in nursing;
(6) "Advanced levels of students" means
				students in the final year of study in a registered nursing education
				program;
(7) "Approval" means those
				nursing education programs and clinical facilities that are approved by the
				Board of Examiners for Nursing with the consent of the Commissioner;
(8) "Board" means the Connecticut Board of
				Examiners for Nursing;
(9) "Client"
				means the focus of nursing care, including individuals, families, groups, and
				communities;
(10) "Collaborative
				judgment" means shared decision making;
(11) "Commissioner" means the Commissioner of
				the Department of Public Health, or his or her designee;
(12) "Contact hour" means a fifty (50) or
				sixty (60) minute period of time spent by students in the presence of program
				faculty;
(13) "Data collection"
				means the process of collecting information, observing the client, recording,
				and reporting to the appropriate person signs, symptoms, and other pertinent
				data which may indicate that the client's condition deviates from normal or
				that there is a change in the client's condition;
(14) "Direct client care experience" means
				student learning that involves the provision of primary nursing services to
				clients;
(15) "Educational
				outcomes" means behaviors demonstrated by the graduate of a registered nurse or
				practical nurse education program;
(16) "Laboratory experience" means student
				learning that involves the manipulation of concepts or materials within a
				controlled environment;
(17)
				"Licensing examination" means the examination for the licensure of registered
				nurses or practical nurses and shall be an examination approved by the board of
				examiners for nursing, with the consent of the department, such as an
				examination provided by the National Council of State Boards of
				Nursing;
(18) "Major curriculum
				changes" means significant deviations in content or length from a currently
				approved education program;
(19)
				"Nursing education program" or "program" means a school of nursing;
(20) "Nursing process" is a problem-solving
				approach consisting of five sequential and interrelated phases: assessment,
				which involves the gathering of data related to a client's health needs;
				diagnosis, which involves the analysis of the data obtained; planning, which
				involves the design of nursing interventions to address client needs;
				implementation, which involves performing the interventions; and evaluation,
				which involves determining whether the diagnosis was accurate, the plan
				appropriate, and the interventions effective in addressing the client's
				needs;
(21) "Observational
				experience" means a structured student learning experience in which learners
				observe but do not provide direct client care services;
(22) "Parent institution" means the single
				agency or institution that administers the nursing education program in its
				entirety;
(23) "Precepted clinical
				experience" means student learning that involves the provision of primary
				nursing services to clients under the guidance and direction of a preceptor in
				collaboration with nursing education program faculty;
(24) "Preceptor" means a registered nurse who
				guides and directs students in the provision of nursing services to clients and
				who meets the requirements of section
				20-90-51(f)
				of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies.
(25) "Requirements" means the minimum
				standards which nursing education programs must meet in order to be
				approved;
(26) "Simulated
				experience" means student learning that involves interaction with
				computer-generated or other lifelike models of clinical nursing
				situations;
(27) "Supervision"
				means the acceptance by a registered nurse educator of the responsibility and
				accountability for the health care delivered to clients by students under his
				or her onsite direction;
(28)
				"Therapeutic nursing measures" means those actions taken to implement the plan
				of care for a client;
(29)
				"Transfer" means a student with post-secondary coursework who seeks admission
				to a program; and
(30) "Unexpected
				resignation" means an unanticipated resignation effective within an academic
				year or after hiring of faculty for an academic year has been
				completed.