Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 655 - Nursing Board › Chapter 7 - Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioners › Rule 655-7.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 3, July 24, 2024
"Advanced registered nurse practitioner"
or
"ARNP"
means a person who is currently licensed as a
				registered nurse under Iowa Code chapter 152 or chapter 152E who is licensed by
				the board as an advanced registered nurse practitioner.
"Asynchronous store-and-forward transmission"
means the collection of a patient's relevant health information and the
				subsequent transmission of the data from an originating site to a health care
				provider at a distant site without the presence of the patient.
"Board"
as used in this chapter means the Iowa
				board of nursing.
"Collaboration"
is the process whereby an ARNP
				and physician jointly manage the care of a client.
"Controlled substance"
means a drug in
				Schedules II through V of subchapter II of Iowa Code chapter 124.
"Cross-coverage"
means a licensee who engages
				in a remote evaluation of a patient, without in-person contact, at the request
				of another licensed health care provider who has established a proper
				practitioner-patient relationship with the patient.
"Dispense"
means to provide a prescription
				drug to a patient for self-use outside of the ARNP's practice location.
				"Dispense" does not include administration.
"Licensee"
means an individual licensed by the
				board as an advanced registered nurse practitioner.
"National professional certification
				organization"
means the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, the
				American Association of Critical Care Nurses, the American Midwifery
				Certification Board, the American Nurses Credentialing Center, the National
				Board of Certification and Recertification for Nurse Anesthetists, the National
				Certification Corporation, and the Pediatric Nursing Certification
				Board.
"On call"
means a licensee is available, where
				necessary, to attend to the urgent and follow-up needs of a patient for whom
				the licensee has temporarily assumed responsibility, as designated by the
				patient's primary care licensee or other health care provider of record.
"Opioid"
means a drug that produces an agonist
				effect on opioid receptors and is indicated or used for the treatment of
				pain.
"Prescription monitoring program database"
or
"PMP database"
means a centralized database of reportable
				controlled substance prescriptions dispensed to patients and includes data
				access logs, security tracking information, and records of each individual who
				requests prescription monitoring program (PMP) information as operated by the
				board of pharmacy.
"Telehealth"
means the practice of nursing
				using electronic audiovisual communications and information technologies or
				other means, including interactive audio with asynchronous store-and-forward
				transmission, between a licensee in one location and a patient in another
				location with or without an intervening health care provider. Telehealth
				includes asynchronous store-and-forward technologies, remote monitoring, and
				real-time interactive services, including teleradiology and telepathology.
				Telehealth, for the purposes of this rule, shall not include the provision of
				nursing services only through an audio-only telephone, email messages,
				facsimile transmissions, or U.S. mail or other parcel service, or any
				combination thereof.