Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 19 - Bureau of Professional Licensure › Subpart 60 - Professional Licensure › Chapter 9 - REGULATIONS GOVERNING LICENSURE OF RESPIRATORY CARE PRACTITIONERS › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL › Rule 15-19-60-9.1.3 - Definitions

Current through June 25, 2024
The following terms shall have the meaning set forth
						below, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Board" shall mean the Mississippi State Board of
						Health.
2. "Council" shall mean the Respiratory Care Advisory
						Council.
3. "License" shall mean the document of licensure issued
						by the Board.
4. "Respiratory care" shall mean the allied health
						professions responsible for the treatment, management, diagnostic, testing,
						control, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities associated
						with the cardiopulmonary system, pursuant to the orders of a physician licensed
						in the State of Mississippi,and includes "inhalation therapy" and "respiratory
						therapy."
5. "Practice of respiratory care" shall include, but not
						be limited to: direct and indirect respiratory care services, including but not
						limited to the administration of pharmacological, diagnostic, and therapeutic
						agents related to respiratory care procedures necessary to implement a
						treatment, disease prevention, pulmonary rehabilitative, or diagnostic regimen
						prescribed by a physician; transcription and implementation of the written or
						verbal orders of a physician pertaining to the practice of respiratory care;
						observing and monitoring signs and symptoms, general behavior, general physical
						response to respiratory care treatment and diagnostic testing, including
						determination of whether such signs, symptoms, reactions, behavior or general
						response exhibit abnormal characteristics; and implementation based on observed
						abnormalities, of appropriate reporting, referral, respiratory care protocols
						or changes in treatment, pursuant to a prescription by a person authorized to
						practice medicine under the laws of the State of Mississippi; or the initiation
						of emergency procedures under the regulations of the Board or as otherwise
						permitted in this act. The practice of respiratory care may be performed in any
						clinic, hospital, skilled nursing facility, and private dwelling, or other
						place deemed appropriate or necessary of the Board, in accordance with the
						prescription or verbal order of a physician.
6. "Performance of respiratory care" means respiratory
						care in accordance with the prescription of a licensed physician and includes,
						but is not limited to, the diagnostic and therapeutic use of the following:
						administration of medical gases (except for the purpose of anesthesia),
						aerosols and humidification; environmental control mechanisms and hyperbaric
						therapy; pharmacologic agents related to respiratory care procedures;
						mechanical or physiological ventilatory support; bronchopulmonary hygiene;
						cardiopulmonary resuscitation; maintenance of the natural airway; insertion and
						maintenance of artificial airways; specific diagnostic and testing techniques
						employed in the medical management of patients to assist in diagnosis,
						monitoring, treatment and research of pulmonary abnormalities, including
						measurements of ventilatory volumes, pressures, flows, collection of specimens
						of blood and blood gases, expired and inspired gas samples, respiratory
						secretions, and pulmonary function testing; and hemodynamic and other related
						physiologist measurements of the cardiopulmonary system.
7. "Respiratory care practitioner" means:
a. A person employed in the practice of respiratory care
						who has the knowledge and skill necessary to administer respiratory
						care.
b. A person who is capable of serving as a resource to
						the physician in relation to the technical aspects of respiratory care as to
						safe and effective methods for administering respiratory care
						modalities;
c. A person who is able to function in situations of
						unsupervised patient contact requiring great individual judgment; and
d. A person capable of supervising, directing and
						teaching less skilled personnel in the provision of respiratory care
						services.
8. [Reserved]
9. [Reserved]
10. "Examination" shall mean an entry-level examination
						as administered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC), or its
						successor Board, to practice respiratory care or other examination that the
						Board may approve.
11. "Department" shall mean the Mississippi Department of
						Health.
12. "Initiation of Emergency Procedure" shall include,
						but not be limited to, Advanced Cardiac Life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life
						Support, and Neonatal Resuscitation Program, in emergency situations.
						Procedures not covered in ( 1-3(e) and (f) above may be performed by only those
						Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioners who have successfully completed a
						course in each respective appropriate discipline as governed by the American
						Heart Association, in accordance with the prescription or verbal order of a
						physician, and shall be performed under a qualified medical director.
13. "Written orders of a physician" shall include, in a
						hospital licensed in the State of Mississippi, a set of criteria/requirements
						outlined and adopted by the appropriate medical advisory body within the
						institution and made part of the formal hospital procedure for respiratory
						care.
Miss. Code Ann.
						§
												73-57-13.