Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 481 - Inspections and Appeals Department › Inspections Division › Chapter 62 - Residential Care Facilities for Persons With Mental Illness (RCFs/PMI) › Rule 481-62.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
In addition to the definitions in 481-Chapter 57 and Iowa
				  Code chapter 135C, the following definitions apply.
"Commission"
means the mental health and
				  disability services commission.
"Department"
means the Iowa department of
				  inspections and appeals.
"Dependent adult abuse"
is as defined in
				  rule 481-52.1(235E).
"Evaluation services"
means those activities
				  designed to identify a person's current level of functioning and those factors
				  which are barriers to maintaining the current level or achieving a higher level
				  of functioning.
"Interdisciplinary team process"
means an
				  approach to assessment, service planning, and service implementation in which
				  members of an interdisciplinary team utilize the skills, competencies, insights
				  and perspectives provided by each member's training and experience to develop a
				  single, integrated, individual program plan to meet a resident's needs for
				  services.
"Level of functioning"
means a person's
				  current physiological and psychological status and current academic, community
				  living, self-care, and vocational skills.
"Mental health counselor"
means a person who
				  is certified or eligible for certification as a mental health counselor by the
				  National Academy of Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselors.
"Mental illness"
means a substantial
				  disorder of thought or mood which significantly impairs judgment, behavior, or
				  the capacity to recognize reality or the ability to cope with the ordinary
				  demands of life. Mental disorders include the organic and functional psychoses,
				  neuroses, personality disorders, alcoholism and drug dependence, behavioral
				  disorders and other disorders as defined by the current edition of American
				  Psychiatric Association Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental
				  Disorders.
"Physical or physiological treatment"
means
				  those activities designed to prevent, halt, control, relieve, or reverse
				  symptoms or conditions which interfere with the physical or physiological
				  functioning of the human body.
"Psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioner
				  "
means an individual currently licensed as a registered nurse under
				  Iowa Code chapter 152 or 152E who holds a national certification in psychiatric
				  mental health care and who is licensed by the board of nursing as an advanced
				  registered nurse practitioner.
"Psychiatric nurse"
means a person who meets
				  the requirements of a certified psychiatric nurse, is eligible for
				  certification by the American Nursing Association, and is licensed by the state
				  of Iowa to practice nursing as defined in Iowa Code chapter 152.
"Psychiatrist"
means a doctor of medicine or
				  osteopathic medicine and surgery who is certified by the American Board of
				  Psychiatry and Neurology or who is eligible for certification.
"Psychologist"
means a person who is
				  licensed to practice psychology in the state of Iowa, or is certified by the
				  Iowa department of education as a school psychologist, or is eligible for
				  certification, or meets the requirements for eligibility for a license to
				  practice psychology in the state of Iowa that were effective prior to July 1,
				  1985.
"Psychotherapeutic treatment"
means those
				  activities designed to assist a person in the identification or modification of
				  beliefs, emotions, attitudes, or behaviors in order to maintain or improve the
				  person's functioning in response to the physical, emotional and social
				  environment.
"Qualified mental health professional"
or
"QMHP"
means a person who:
1. Is a psychiatrist, psychologist, social worker, certified
				  psychiatric nurse, psychiatric advanced registered nurse practitioner, or
				  mental health counselor; or
2. Is a doctor of medicine or osteopathic medicine, a
				  physician assistant, or an advanced registered nurse practitioner and has at
				  least one year's documented supervised experience in providing mental health
				  services; or
3. Has a master's degree with coursework focusing on
				  diagnosis, evaluation, and psychotherapeutic treatment of mental health
				  problems and mental illness; or
4. Is employed by a community mental health center or mental
				  health service provider accredited by the commission and has less than a
				  master's degree but at least a bachelor's degree and sufficient education and
				  experience as determined by the chief administrative officer of the community
				  mental health center, with the approval of the commission, with coursework and
				  experience focusing on diagnosis and evaluation and treatment of persons with
				  mental health problems and mental illness.
If the person is practicing in a field covered by an Iowa
				  licensure law, the person shall hold a current Iowa license.
"Resident"
means a person who has been
				  admitted to the facility to receive care and services.
"Social worker"
means a person who is
				  licensed to practice social work in the state of Iowa or who is eligible for
				  licensure.