New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 43E - GENERAL LICENSURE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO ALL LICENSED FACILITIES › Subchapter 7 - REQUIREMENT TO USE NEEDLES AND SHARP INSTRUMENTS CONTAINING INTEGRATED SAFETY FEATURES OR NEEDLELESS DEVICES › Section 8:43E-7.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, when used in this subchapter,
				  shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Available" means cleared or approved for marketing by the Federal
				  Food and Drug Administration and commercially offered for distribution.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior
				  Services.
"Emergency" means an unforeseen circumstance involving a patient
				  in need of immediate medical attention in order to save the patient's life and/or
				  limb or prevent serious and/or permanent injury.
"Evaluation committee" means a group of individuals appointed
				  within each facility or health care system which satisfies the requirements of
				  26:2H-5.1 3 and
				  8:43E-7.3.
"Facility" means a health care facility licensed by the
				  Department, pursuant to the provisions set forth in the Health Care Facilities
				  Planning Act, 26:2H-1 et seq., as amended.
"Health care system" means a licensed health care provider/entity
				  that either owns and operates more than one licensed facility within the State of
				  New Jersey or can document operational control over more than one licensed facility
				  within the State of New Jersey, but which is not a management company.
"Health care worker" or "health care professional" means a
				  physician, physician assistant, advanced practice nurse, registered nurse, licensed
				  practical nurse, or any other individual employed by the facility or having
				  privileges at the facility whose job duties require the use of sharp devices, as
				  that term is defined herein.
"Integrated safety features" means needles and all other sharp
				  instruments with engineered injury prevention protections in the form of a built-in
				  safety feature or mechanism designed to protect the user of the sharp device from
				  needle stick injuries.
"Needleless device" means a device that does not use needles for
				  the following procedures:
1. The collection or withdrawal of bodily fluids after initial
				  venous or arterial access is established;
2. Administration of medication or other fluids; or
3. Any other procedure involving potential for exposure to blood
				  or other potentially exposed infectious material.
"Needle stick injury" means the actual or potential parenteral
				  introduction, into the body of a health care worker, of blood or other potentially
				  exposed infectious material, by any type of sharp device, as that term is defined in
				  this section.
"Sharp device(s)" means needles and all other sharp instruments
				  used by health care workers to administer patient care, the use of which creates the
				  potential for exposure to blood or other potentially exposed infectious material,
				  regardless of whether the specific patient being treated has been diagnosed with a
				  bloodborne disease or infection.