Illinois Administrative Code › Title 68 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Part 690 - NURSE AGENCY LICENSING ACT › Section 690.20 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 48, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to those definitions found in Section 3 of the Act,
				the following definitions shall apply for the purpose of these
				regulations:
"Act" means the Nurse Agency Licensing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat.
				1989, ch. 111, par. 951 et seq.).
"Applicant" means any nurse, licensed practical nurse or
				certified nurse aide who interviews for employment, assignment or referral to
				an Illinois health care facility by a nurse agency.
"Certified Nurse Aide" means a nursing assistant, including a
				nurse's aide, orderly, or nurse technician registered with the Department of
				Public Health in accordance with Section 3-206 of the Nursing Home Care Act
				(Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, par. 4153-206).
"Department" means the Illinois Department of Labor.
"Director" means the Director of the Illinois Department of
				Labor and/or his/her designated representative.
"Health care facility" means a facility as defined in Section 3
				of the Illinois Health Facilities Planning Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch.
				1111/2, par. 1153) and includes the following:
an ambulatory surgical treatment center required to be licensed
				pursuant to the Ambulatory Surgical Treatment Center Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989,
				ch. 1111/2, par. 157-8.1 et seq.);
an institution, place, building or agency required to be
				licensed pursuant to the Hospital Licensing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch.
				1111/2, par. 142 et seq.);
any institution required to be licensed pursuant to the Nursing
				Home Care Reform Act of 1979 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, par. 4151-101
				et seq.);
any kidney disease treatment center, including a free standing
				hemodialysis unit;
any health maintenance organization required to be operated
				pursuant to the Health Maintenance Organization Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch.
				1111/2, par. 1401 et seq.) and which is a qualified health maintenance
				organization under Section 1320(d) of the Public Health Services Act (
				42 U.S.C.
				300e-9 ) or provides or otherwise makes
				available to enrolled participants health care services, including at least the
				following basic health care services: usual physician services,
				hospitalization, laboratory, x-ray, emergency and preventive services, and out
				of area coverage; is compensated (except for co-payments) for the provision of
				the basic health care services listed in clause to enrolled participants by a
				payment which is paid on a periodic basis without regard to the date the health
				care services are provided and which is fixed without regard to the frequency,
				extent, or kind of health service actually provided; and provide physicians'
				services primarily directly through physicians who are either employees or
				partners of such organization, or through arrangements with individual
				physicians or one or more groups of physicians (organized on a group practice
				or individual practice basis);
any hospital, nursing home, ambulatory surgical treatment
				center, kidney disease treatment center, or health maintenance organizations
				maintained by the State or any department or agency thereof, but not a
				federally owned facility.
"Licensed practical nurse" means a person licensed under the
				Illinois Nursing Act of 1989 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 111, par. 3501 et seq.)
				as a licensed practical nurse and practices practical nursing, which is the
				performance for compensation of acts in the care of the ill, injured, or
				infirmed, selected by and performed under the direction of a registered
				professional nurse, licensed physician, dentist, or podiatrist, requiring the
				basic nursing skill, judgment, and knowledge acquired by means of a completed
				course of study in an approved practical nursing education program.
"Licensee" means any nurse agency which is properly licensed
				under this Act.
"Manage" means to be in charge of the day to day operations of
				the agency.
"Nurse" means a registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse
				as defined in the Illinois Nursing Act of 1989, as now or hereafter
				amended.
"Nurse Agency" means any individual, firm, corporation,
				partnership or other legal entity that employs, assigns or refers nurses or
				certified nurse aides to a Health Care Facility for a fee, but does not
				include:
home health agencies licensed and operated under the Home
				Health Agency Licensing Act (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 1111/2, par. 2801);
				or
a licensed or certified individual who provides his own
				services to a health care facility; or
a subsidiary, division or other organizational entity or
				corporation that is wholly owned by a health care facility that provides the
				services of nonsalaried employees only in that facility.
"Registered nurse" means a person who is licensed as a
				professional nurse under the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 and practices
				professional nursing, in all its specialties, which is the performance for
				compensation of any nursing act, in the nursing evaluation, observation, care
				and counsel of the ill, injured, or infirmed; in the maintenance of health or
				prevention of illness of others; the administration of medications and
				treatments as prescribed by a licensed physician, dentist, or podiatrist; or
				any act in the supervision or teaching of nursing, which requires substantial,
				specialized judgment and skill the proper performance of which is based on
				knowledge and application of the principles of biological, physical, and social
				science acquired by means of a completed course in an approved school of
				professional nursing, except those acts of medical diagnosis or prescription of
				therapeutic or corrective measures which are properly performed only by
				physicians licensed in the State of Illinois.
"Supervising Nurse" means a registered nurse who is responsible
				for overseeing the assignment of nurses and certified nurse aides to a health
				care facility.
"Transfer of Ownership" means a sale and/or transfer of a
				majority interest in the ownership of a nurse agency.