California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 7 - Health Planning and Facility Construction › Chapter 15 - Associate Degree Nursing Scholarship Program › Section 97800 - Chapter Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The following definitions shall apply to the regulations
				  contained in this Chapter:
(a)
				"Academic year" means a period of time, usually eight or nine months, during
				which a full-time college or university student would normally be expected to
				complete the equivalent of two semesters or three quarters of
				instruction.
(b) "Associate degree
				nursing program" means an education program with a two or three year
				curriculum, which includes nursing theory and clinical coursework that leads to
				an associate degree of nursing. Graduates of associate degree programs are
				eligible to take the state board examination to become registered nurses in
				California.
(c) "Contract" means a
				written agreement between the Office and a recipient of a scholarship that
				obligates the recipient, in exchange for scholarship(s), to practice their
				nursing profession for a specified period of time after graduation in a
				medically underserved area in California.
(d) "Cultural and linguistic skills and
				abilities" means possessing cultural and linguistic competence. Cultural and
				linguistic competency means the ability to understand and respond effectively
				to the cultural and linguistic needs brought by patients to health care
				encounters.
(e) "Direct patient
				care" means the provision of health care services directly to individuals being
				treated for, or suspected of having, physical or mental illness. Direct patient
				care includes preventative care. The first line supervision of direct patient
				care shall be considered "direct patient care."
(f) "Director" means the Director of the
				Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development.
(g) "Economic need" means having an income of
				two hundred (200) percent or less of federal poverty index based on family
				size.
(h) "Federal poverty index"
				means the federal poverty threshold updated annually by the U.S. Department of
				Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
(i)
				"Foundation" means the Health Professions Education Foundation.
(j) "Full-time student" means a student who
				is enrolled in a semester, trimester, or quarter program of not less than
				twelve (12) credit hours or units or their equivalent, and can reasonably
				expect to graduate, if the student progresses in good standing, in the
				recognized number of academic years it takes a full-time student to
				graduate.
(k) "Medically
				underserved area" means any of the following:
(1) A Medically Underserved Area or Medically
				Underserved Population (MUA or MUP) as designated by the U.S. Department of
				Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau
				of Health Professions' Shortage Designation Branch.
(2) A Primary Care Health Professional
				Shortage Area (HPSA) as designated by the U.S. Department of Health and Human
				Services, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health
				Professions' Shortage Designation Branch.
(3) A California Primary Care Shortage Area
				as designated by the California Healthcare Workforce Policy
				Commission.
(4) A facility
				determined by the Director pursuant to section
				128385
				of the Health and Safety Code to be an eligible county health facility or an
				eligible state-operated health facility.