Mississippi Administrative Code › Title 15 - Mississippi Department of Health › Part 16 - Health Facilities › Subpart 1 - Health Facilities Licensure and Certification › Chapter 3 - MINIMUM STANDARDS FOR PEDIATRIC SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES › Subchapter 2 - Definitions › Rule 15-16-1-3.2.1 - General

Current through June 25, 2024
A listing of terms often used in connection with the
						rules and regulations and standards follows:
1.
Basic Services.
Include, but
					 are not limited to development, implementation and monitoring of a
					 comprehensive protocol of care, developed in conjunction with the parent or
					 guardian, which specifies the medical, nursing, psychosocial and developmental
					 therapies required by the medically dependent or technologically dependent
					 child served as well as the caregiver training needs of the child's legal
					 guardian.
2.
Child
					 Development Specialist.
Shall mean an individual with a master's degree
					 in child development or a related field with at least one year of experience in
					 trans-disciplinary evaluation and treatment planning for children who are at
					 risk of experiencing developmental delay.
3.
Child Life Specialist.
Shall
					 mean an individual with a baccalaureate degree in child life, early childhood
					 education or a related field and at least one year of experience in planning
					 and implementing developmental stimulation programs for children.
4.
Criminal History Record
					 Check.
For purposes of the requirement for a criminal history record
					 check:
a.
Employee -
For the
					 purpose of fingerprinting and criminal background history checks, employee
					 shall mean
any individual employed by a covered entity
. The term
					 "employee" also includes any individual who by
contract
with a
					 covered entity provides patient care in a patient's, resident's, or client's
					 room or in treatment rooms provides direct care/services for clients currently
					 enrolled in the Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facility.
b. The term employee does not include
					 healthcare professional/ technical students, as defined in Section
					 37-29-232,
					 performing clinical training in a licensed entity under contracts between their
					 schools and the licensed entity, and does not include students at high schools
					 who observe the treatment and care of patients in a licensed entity as part of
					 the requirements of an allied health course taught in the school if:
i. The student is under the supervision of a
					 licensed healthcare provider; and
ii. The student has signed the affidavit that
					 is on file at the student's school stating that he or she has not been
					 convicted of or plead guilty or nolo contendere to a felony of possession or
					 sale of drugs, murder, manslaughter, armed robbery, rape, sexual battery, any
					 sex offenses listed in section
					 45-33-23(g),
					 child abuse, arson, grand larceny, burglary, gratification of lust, aggravated
					 assault, or felonious abuse and/or battery of a vulnerable adult, or that any
					 such conviction or plea was reversed on appeal or a pardon was granted for the
					 conviction or plea.
iii. Further,
					 applicants and employees of the University of Mississippi Medical Center for
					 whom criminal history record checks and fingerprinting are obtained in
					 accordance with Section
					 37-115-41
					 are exempt from application of the term employee.
c.
Covered Entity -
For the
					 purpose of criminal history record checks, "covered entity" means a licensed
					 entity or a healthcare professional staffing agency.
d.
Licensed Entity -
For the
					 purpose of criminal history record checks, the term "licensed entity" means a
					 hospital, nursing home, personal care home, home health agency, hospice, PPEC
					 or a Pediatric Skilled Nursing Facility.
e.
Health Care Professional/Vocational
					 Technical Academic Program
- For purpose of criminal history record
					 checks, "health care professional/vocational technical academic program" means
					 an academic program in medicine, nursing, dentistry, occupational therapy,
					 physical therapy, social services, speech therapy, or other allied-health
					 professional whose purpose is to prepare professionals to render patient care
					 services.
f.
Health Care
					 Professional/Vocational Technical Student -
For purposes of criminal
					 history record checks, the term means a student enrolled in a healthcare
					 professional/vocational technical academic program.
g.
Direct Patient Care or
					 Services
- For the purposes of fingerprinting and criminal background
					 history checks, the term "direct patient care" means direct hands-on medical
					 patient care and services provided by an individual in a patient, resident or
					 client's room, treatment room, recovery room or Pediatric Skilled Nursing
					 Facility. Individuals providing direct patient care may be directly employed by
					 the facility or provides patient care on a contractual basis.
h.
Documented Disciplinary
					 Action
- For the purpose of fingerprinting and criminal background
					 history checks, the term "documented disciplinary action" means any action
					 taken against an employee for abuse or neglect of a patient.