Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES SYSTEM › Title 172 - PROFESSIONAL AND OCCUPATIONAL LICENSURE › Chapter 180 - PRACTICE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY › Section 172-180-002 - DEFINITIONS

Current through June 17, 2024
Definitions set out in the Veterinary Medicine and Surgery
				  Practice Act, the Uniform Credentialing Act, 172 Nebraska Administrative Code
				  (NAC) 10, and the following apply to this chapter.
002.01
ADEQUATE
				RECORDS.
Legible medical records containing, at a minimum,
				sufficient information to identify the patient, support the diagnosis, justify
				the treatment, accurately document the results, indicate advice and cautionary
				warnings provided to the patient and provide sufficient information for another
				practitioner to assume continuity of the patient's care at any point in the
				course of treatment, and, when investigative or unproven therapies are
				utilized, the records must include written informed client consent.
002.02
ANGOFF
				METHOD.
A method of determining passing scores based on aggregate
				information obtained by having judges predict the probability that a
				hypothetical minimally competent candidate will correctly answer items in a
				test.
002.03
APPROVED
				CONTINUING EDUCATION.
Consists of courses, clinics, forums,
				lectures, training programs or seminars that pertain to veterinary medicine and
				surgery or veterinary technology and are approved by the Board.
002.04
APPROVED CONTINUING
				COMPETENCY.
Activities that ensure the maintenance of knowledge
				and skills necessary to competently practice veterinary medicine and surgery;
				the utilization of new techniques based on scientific and clinical advances;
				and the promotion of research to assure expansive and comprehensive services to
				the public. The activities must meet the criteria for approval established by
				the Board to be recognized for licensure renewal.
002.05
APPROVED PROGRAM THAT
				DETERMINES EDUCATIONAL EQUIVALENCE.
A program which issues
				certificates based on specific standards indicating that the holder of such a
				certificate has demonstrated knowledge and skill equivalent to that possessed
				by a graduate of an accredited college of veterinary medicine. Such programs
				include the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA), Education
				Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates (ECFVG), the American Association
				of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) Program for the Assessment of Veterinary
				Education Equivalence (PAVE); or another entity that maintains the same
				standards for determining educational equivalence as the American Veterinary
				Medical Association, Education Commission for Foreign Veterinary Graduates, or
				the American Association of Veterinary State Boards Program for the Assessment
				of Veterinary Education Equivalence.
002.06
HOUR.
A
				period of 50 minutes of formal instruction, otherwise known as a "contact
				hour."
002.07
PROVIDER.
An institution or individual that presents
				continuing education programs to licensees.
002.08
SURGERY.
The
				treatment, through revision, destruction, incision, closure or other structural
				alteration of animal tissue.