Louisiana Administrative Code › Title 46 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS › Part XLV - Medical Professions › Subpart 2 - Licensure and Certification › Chapter 39 - Medical Psychologists › Subchapter A - General Provisions › Section XLV-3903 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 6, June 20, 2024
A. As used in this
					 Chapter, the following terms and phrases shall have the meanings specified.
Applicant
- an individual who has applied
						to the board for a license as a medical psychologist or a certificate of
						advanced practice.
Approved
- as applied to an examination,
						school, college, university, institution, organization, program, curriculum,
						course of study or continuing professional education, shall mean affirmatively
						recognized and sanctioned by the board in accordance with this Chapter.
Board
- the Louisiana State Board of
						Medical Examiners, as constituted in
						R.S.
						37:1263.
Bona-Fide Medication Sample
-a
						medication, other than a controlled substance, packaged by the original
						manufacturer thereof in such quantity as does not exceed a reasonable
						therapeutic dosage and provided at no cost to a medical psychologist for
						administration or distribution to a patient at no cost to the patient.
Certificate of Advanced Practice
or
Certificate
or
Certification
- the board's
						official recognition of a medical psychologist's lawful authority to engage in
						advanced practice of medical psychology as provided by
						R.S.
						37:1360.57 and Subpart 3 of these
						rules.
Collaborating Physician
-a physician who
						consults and/or collaborates with a medical psychologist.
Concurrence or Concur
-a physician's
						agreement to a plan for psychopharmacological management of a patient based on
						prior discussion with a medical psychologist.
Consultation and Collaboration with a MP
or
Consult
and/or
Collaborate
- that practice
						in which a physician discusses and, if deemed appropriate, concurs in a medical
						psychologist's plan for psychopharmacologic management of a patient for whom
						the physician is the primary or attending physician.
Controlled Substance
- any substance
						defined, enumerated, or included in federal or state statute or regulations
						21 C.F.R.
						1308.11 -.15 or
						R.S.
						40:964, or any substance which may hereafter
						be designated as a controlled substance by amendment or supplementation of such
						regulations or statute.
Discussion
-a communication between a
						physician and a medical psychologist conducted in person, by telephone, in
						writing or by some other appropriate means.
Drug
- shall mean the same as the term
						"drug" as defined in
						R.S.
						40:961(16), including
						controlled substances except narcotics, but shall be limited to only those
						agents related to the diagnosis and treatment or management of mental, nervous,
						emotional, behavioral, substance abuse or cognitive disorders.
Good Moral Character
- as applied to an
						applicant, means that:
a. the applicant has not, prior to or during the pendency
						of an application to the board, been guilty of any act, omission, condition, or
						circumstance which would provide legal cause under
						R.S.
						37:1360.67 for the suspension or revocation
						of a license or certificate;
b. the applicant has not, prior to or in connection with
						the application, made any representation to the board, knowingly or
						unknowingly, which is in fact false or misleading as to a material fact or
						omits to state any fact or matter that is material to the application;
						or
c. the applicant has not made any representation or
						failed to make a representation or engaged in any act or omission which is
						false, deceptive, fraudulent, or misleading in achieving or obtaining any of
						the qualifications for a license or certificate required by this
						Chapter.
LAMP
-the Louisiana Academy of Medical
						Psychologists.
LSBEP
-the Louisiana State Board of
						Examiners of Psychologists, as constituted in
						R.S.
						37:2353.
Medication
- is synonymous with
drug
, as defined herein.
Medical Psychologist
or
MP
-a psychological practitioner who has undergone specialized
						training in clinical psychopharmacology and has passed a national proficiency
						examination in psychopharmacology approved by the board. Such practice includes
						the authority to administer and prescribe drugs and distribute
bona-fide
medication samples, as defined in this
						Section.
Medical Psychology
-that profession of
						the health sciences which deals with the examination, diagnosis, psychological,
						pharmacologic and other somatic treatment and/or management of mental, nervous,
						emotional, behavioral, substance abuse or cognitive disorders, and specifically
						includes the authority to administer, and prescribe drugs and distribute
bona-fide
medication samples as defined in this Section. In
						addition, the practice of medical psychology includes those practices as
						defined in
						R.S.
						37:2352(5).
Medical Psychology Advisory Committee
or
Committee
- a committee to the board constituted under
						R.S.
						37:1360.63.
Medical Psychology Practice Act or MP
						Act
-Acts 2009, No. 251,
						R.S.
						37:1360.51-1360.72.
Mental, Nervous, Emotional, Behavorial, Substance
						Abuse and Cognitive Disorders
-those disorders, illnesses or diseases
						listed in either the most recent edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical
						Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American Psychiatric Association or
						the mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse and cognitive
						disorders listed in the International Classification of Diseases published by
						the World Health Organization.
Narcotics
-natural and synthetic opioid
						analgesics and their derivatives used to relieve pain.
Physician
- an individual licensed by the
						board to engage in the practice of medicine in the state of Louisiana as
						evidenced by a current license duly issued by the board.
Primary or Attending Physician
-a
						physician who has an active clinical relationship with a patient and is
						principally responsible for the health care needs of the patient, or currently
						attending to the health care needs of the patient, or considered by the patient
						to be his or her primary or attending physician.
Psychopharmacologic Management-
the
						treatment and/or management of the mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral,
						substance abuse and cognitive disorders with medication.
State
- any state of the United States,
						the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
						Promulgated in accordance with
						R.S.
						37:1270,
						37:1360.51-1360.72.