Illinois Administrative Code › Title 77 - PUBLIC HEALTH › Part 665 - CHILD AND STUDENT HEALTH EXAMINATION AND IMMUNIZATION CODE › Subpart A - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 665.105 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
Act - Section 7 of the Child Care Act of 1969.
Advanced practice nurse - a person who is licensed as an
				  advanced practice nurse under the Nurse Practice Act.
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices or ACIP - a
				  group of medical and public health experts selected by the Secretary of the
				  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) following an application and
				  nomination process that develops recommendations on how to use vaccines to
				  control diseases in the United States.
Attendance center - an individual building or site
				  responsible for taking and maintaining attendance records of students.
Body mass index or BMI - the result of a calculation of
				  weight and height measurement used to determine whether an individual's weight
				  is appropriate for his or her height. Body mass index is calculated by
				  multiplying weight in pounds by 703 and dividing by the square of the height in
				  inches.
Weight (lbs) x 703/Height
				  (inches)2
or
703 (Weight (lbs)/Height
				  (inches)2
Certified vision screener - a person who has been trained by
				  the Illinois Department of Public Health and who holds a current and valid
				  certification from the Department as a vision screener in accordance with the
				  Illinois Child Vision and Hearing Test Act.
Child care facility - any person, group of persons, center,
				  organization or institution who or that is established and maintained for the
				  care of children outside of their home.
Dental examination - an examination, performed by a dentist,
				  that includes, at a minimum, oral health status and treatment needs.
Dentist - a person who is licensed to practice dentistry
				  under the Illinois Dental Practice Act.
Department or IDPH - the Illinois Department of Public
				  Health.
Eye examination - an examination, performed by an optometrist
				  or a physician who provides eye examinations, that includes,
at a
				  minimum, history, visual acuity, subjective refraction to best visual acuity
				  near and far, internal and external examination, and a glaucoma evaluation, as
				  well as any other tests or observations that, in the professional judgment of
				  the
physician or optometrist
, are necessary.
(Section
				  27-8.1(2) of the School Code)
Glaucoma evaluation - an examination that includes the
				  measurement by instrumentation of the intraocular pressure of the eye, and
				  other tests focused on the optic nerve, as needed.
Health care official - a person with signature or
				  administrative authority within a health care, child care or school
				  setting.
Health care provider - a physician, advanced practice nurse,
				  or physician assistant who is authorized to conduct health examinations under
				  Section 27-8.1(2) of the School Code and a pharmacist who is authorized to
				  administer vaccinations under the Illinois Pharmacy Practice Act of
				  1975.
Local school authority - that person, including, but not
				  limited to, homeless liaison, principal, social worker or registered nurse
				  employed by the school authority, who has ultimate control and responsibility
				  for any public, private/independent or parochial elementary or secondary
				  school, or any attendance center or nursery school operated by an elementary or
				  secondary school or institution of higher learning.
Optometrist - a person who is licensed to practice optometry
				  under the Illinois Optometric Practice Act of 1987.
Pharmacist - a person who is licensed to practice pharmacy
				  under the Illinois Pharmacy Practice Act of 1975.
Physician - a person who is licensed to practice medicine in
				  all of its branches as provided in the Medical Practice Act of 1987.
Physician assistant - a person who is licensed as a physician
				  assistant under the Physician Assistant Practice Act of 1987.
Proof of immunity - documented evidence of the child's having
				  received a vaccine verified by a health care provider, laboratory evidence or
				  proof of disease as described in Section
				  665.250.
Registered nurse - a person who is licensed as a registered
				  professional nurse under the Nurse Practice Act.
School program - nursery schools, pre-school programs, early
				  childhood programs, Head Start, or other pre-kindergarten child care programs
				  offered or operated by a school or school district.
Subjective refraction - determining the best visual status of
				  the patient using ophthalmic lenses with directed patient response.
Vision screening - mandated vision screening by
				  Department-certified vision screeners under the Child Vision and Hearing Test
				  Act and the Department's rules titled Vision Screening. Vision screening
				  services include testing, evaluation and follow-up, which may include a
				  recommendation for an eye examination.
Visual acuity testing - a measurement of the resolving power
				  of the human eye using standardized testing conditions, usually by
				  distinguishing standardized targets such as letters or children's symbols. It
				  is done far at 20 feet and near at 16 inches without correction, with the
				  present refractive correction, and with best correction by examination, and
				  includes monocular and binocular findings.