Arizona Administrative Code › Title 4 - PROFESSIONS AND OCCUPATIONS › Chapter 21 - BOARD OF OPTOMETRY › Article 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section R4-21-101 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. §
									32-1701,
				  the following apply to this Chapter:
"Accredited" means approved by the ACOE.
"ACCME" means Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical
				  Education
"ACOE" means the Accreditation Council on Optometric
				  Education.
"Active license" means a license that is current and has not
				  expired.
"Advertisement" means a written, oral, or electronic
				  communication that an ordinary person would perceive is designed to influence,
				  directly or indirectly, a decision regarding ophthalmic goods or optometric
				  services.
"Applicant" means:
An individual who applies to the Board under A.R.S.
				  §§ 32-1722 or 32-1723 and A.A.C.
				  R4-21-201
				  or
				  R4-21-202
				  for a license to practice the profession of optometry, but has not been granted
				  the license;
A licensee who applies under A.R.S. §
									32-1726
				  and
				  R4-21-205 for
				  license renewal;
A licensee who applies under A.R.S. §
									32-1728
				  and
				  R4-21-208
				  for a pharmaceutical agent number;
A licensee or provider of Continuing Education that applies
				  for approval of a Continuing Education under
				  R4-21-210
"Application package" means the forms, documents, and fees
				  that the Board requires an applicant to submit or have submitted on the
				  applicant's behalf.
"Approved Continuing Education" means a planned educational
				  experience relevant to the practice of the profession of optometry that the
				  Board determines meets the criteria at
				  R4-21-210.
"ARBO" means the Association of Regulatory Boards of
				  Optometry.
"Audit" means the selection of licensees and process of
				  reviewing documents for verification of satisfactory completion of Continuing
				  Education requirements during a specified time period.
"CPR" means Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
"CELMO" means the Council on Endorsed Licensure Mobility for
				  Optometrists.
"Certificate of special qualification" means a document that
				  specifies whether the holder, who was licensed by the Board before July 1,
				  2000, and has not completed a course of study approved by the Board, may
				  prescribe, administer, and dispense a pharmaceutical agent and if so, whether
				  the holder may prescribe, administer, and dispense:
A topical diagnostic pharmaceutical agent only, or
Topical diagnostic and topical therapeutic pharmaceutical
				  agents.
"Continuing Education" means planned, organized learning
				  acts designed to maintain, improve, or expand a licensee's knowledge and skills
				  in order for the licensee to develop new knowledge and skills relevant to the
				  enhancement of practice, education, or theory development to improve the safety
				  and welfare of the public.
"Continuing Education Report" means an online education
				  report used to electronically track Continuing Education hours taken by a
				  licensee.
"COPE" means the Council on Optometric Practitioner
				  Education.
"Course of study" as used in A.R.S. §
									32-1722,
				  means education approved by the Board under
				  R4-21-207
				  that qualifies an optometrist to prescribe, administer, and dispense topical
				  diagnostic, topical therapeutic, and oral pharmaceutical agents.
"DEA" means The Drug Enforcement Administration
"Drug Enforcement Administration" means the Drug Enforcement
				  Administration in the Department of Justice.
"DEA Controlled Substance Registration" means registration
				  required and permitted by
				  21 U.S.C.
				  823 of the Controlled Substances Act.
"Injectable Epinephrine" means an intramuscular dose of
				  epinephrine used for emergency treatment of an allergic reaction and delivered
				  by a spring-loaded syringe.
"Good cause" means a reason that is substantial enough to
				  afford a legal excuse.
"Hour of Continuing Education" means no less than 50 minutes
				  of learning in one hour of time.
"Incompetence," as used in A.R.S. §
									32-1701(8),
				  means lack of professional skill, fidelity, or physical or mental fitness, or
				  substandard examination or treatment while practicing the profession of
				  optometry.
"Low vision" means chronic impairment to vision that
				  significantly interferes with daily routine activities and cannot be adequately
				  corrected with medical, surgical, or therapeutic means or conventional eyewear
				  or contact lenses.
"Low-vision rehabilitation" means use of optical and
				  non-optical devices, adaptive techniques, and community resources to assist an
				  individual to compensate for low vision in performing daily routine
				  activities.
"Negligence," as used in A.R.S. §
									32-1701(8),
				  means conduct that falls below the standard of care for the protection of
				  patients and the public against unreasonable risk of harm and that is a
				  departure from the conduct expected of a reasonably prudent licensee under the
				  circumstances.
"OE Tracker" means the ARBO Online Education Tracker used to
				  electronically track Continuing Education hours taken by a licensee.
"Opiate" or "Opioid" means any drug or other substance having
				  an addiction-forming or addiction-sustaining liability similar to morphine or
				  being capable of conversion into a drug having such addiction-forming or
				  addiction-sustaining liability.
"Oral pharmaceutical agent," as used in A.R.S. §
									32-1728,
				  means an ingested prescription or non-prescription substance used to examine,
				  diagnose, or treat disease of the eye and its adnexa.
"Party" has the same meaning as prescribed in A.R.S. §
									41-1001.
"Plano lenses" means contact lenses that have cosmetic
				  function only.
"Practice management" means the study of management of the
				  affairs of optometric practice.
"Self-instructed media" means educational material in a
				  printed, audio, video, electronic or distance learning format.
"Topical diagnostic pharmaceutical agent," as used in A.R.S.
				  §
									32-1728,
				  means an externally applied prescription or non-prescription substance used to
				  examine and diagnose disease and conditions of the eye and its adnexa.
"Topical therapeutic pharmaceutical agent," as used in
				  A.R.S. §
									32-1728,
				  means an externally applied prescription or non-prescription substance used to
				  treat disease of the eye and its adnexa.
"Vision rehabilitation" means an individualized course of
				  treatment and education prescribed to improve conditions of the human eye or
				  adnexa or develop compensatory approaches. Vision rehabilitation is designed to
				  help individuals learn, relearn, or reinforce specific vision skills, including
				  eye movement control, focusing control, eye coordination, and the teamwork of
				  the two eyes. Vision rehabilitation includes, but is not limited to optical,
				  non-optical, electronic, or other assistive treatments.