Iowa Administrative Code › Agency 655 - Nursing Board › Chapter 6 - Nursing Practice for Registered Nurses/licensed Practical Nurses › Rule 655-6.1 - 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 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.
"Competence"
means having sufficient
				knowledge, judgment, and skill to perform a specific function.
"Expanded intravenous therapy certification
				course"
means the Iowa board of nursing course required for licensed
				practical nurses to perform procedures related to the expanded scope of
				practice of intravenous therapy.
"Initial assessment"
means the systematic
				collection of data to determine the patient's health status and plan of care,
				and to identify any actual or potential health problems, which is performed
				upon the patient's first arrival or admission to a unit or facility or upon any
				significant changes in the patient's status.
"Licensee"
means an individual licensed by the
				board as a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
"Midline catheter"
means a long peripheral
				catheter in which the distal end resides in the mid to upper arm, but the tip
				terminates no further than the axilla.
"Nursing diagnosis"
means a judgment made by a
				registered nurse, following a nursing assessment of an individual or group
				about actual or potential responses to health problems, which forms the basis
				for determining effective nursing interventions.
"Nursing facility"
means an institution as
				defined in Iowa Code chapter 135C. This term does not include acute care
				settings.
"Nursing process"
means ongoing assessment,
				nursing diagnosis, planning, intervention, and evaluation.
"Peripheral intravenous catheter"
means a
				catheter three inches or less in length.
"Peripherally inserted central catheter"
means
				a soft flexible central venous catheter inserted into an extremity and advanced
				until the tip is positioned in the vena cava.
"Proximate area"
means sufficiently close in
				time and space, within the same building, to provide timely in-person
				assistance.
"Supervision"
means directly or indirectly
				observing a function or activity and taking reasonable steps to ensure the
				nursing care being provided is adequate and delivered appropriately.
"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.
"Unlicensed assistive personnel"
is an
				individual who is trained to function in an assistive role to the registered
				nurse and licensed practical nurse in the provision of nursing care activities
				as delegated by the registered nurse or licensed practical
				nurse.