Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 485 - Oklahoma Board of Nursing › Chapter 10 - Licensure of Practical and Registered Nurses › Subchapter 1 - General Provisions › Section 485:10-1-2 - Definitions

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following words or terms, when used in this Chapter,
				  shall have the following meaning, unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Academic credit hours"
are calculated as
				  follows:
(A) 1 academic semester credit hour = 15 contact hours
(B) 1 academic quarter credit hour = 12.5 contact hours
"Accountable"
means assuming responsibility to
				  the client, the public, other health-care practitioners and oneself for one's
				  actions and/or decisions and their outcomes.
"Additional nursing function"
means the nursing
				  functions, procedures, or tasks, not usually included at the time of
				  matriculation in most nursing education programs; requiring additional
				  knowledge, instruction, and practice before they can be safely performed. Such
				  functions must fall within the scope of accepted nursing practice; may become
				  necessary due to technological advances, new practice standards, or the natural
				  evolution of an occupation; and must not be precluded by other Oklahoma
				  Practice Acts.
"Advanced Practice Registered Nurse"
or
"APRN"
is a term that includes Certified Nurse Practitioners
				  (CNP), Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS), Certified Nurse Midwives (CNM), and
				  Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNA).
"Advanced Unlicensed Assistant"
or
"AUA"
means an individual, other than a licensed nurse, who
				  performs in an assistive role and has been certified to perform core skills as
				  delegated by a licensed nurse and as authorized by the Rules and Regulations of
				  the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
"Board"
means the Oklahoma Board of Nursing [59
				  O.S. Section
				  567.3(1)
				  ]
"Client"
means a consumer of nursing care; may
				  be an individual or group; is synonymous with "patient".
"Clinical learning experiences"
means
				  faculty-planned and guided activities designed to assist students to meet
				  stated program and course outcomes and to safely apply knowledge and skills
				  when providing nursing care to clients across the lifespan as appropriate to
				  the role expectations of the graduates. These experiences occur in a variety of
				  affiliating agencies or clinical practice settings including, but not limited
				  to: acute care facilities, extended care facilities, long-term care facilities,
				  clients' residences, and community agencies; and in associated clinical pre-
				  and post-conferences.
"Clinical skills laboratory"
means a designated
				  area in which equipment and supplies are provided to simulate a clinical
				  facility, allowing skills and procedures to be demonstrated and
				  practiced.
"Complaint"
means a nursing practice incident
				  report submitted to the Board informing the Board staff that a certificate
				  holder or licensed nurse may have violated the Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act.
				  If the Complaint results in obtaining evidence to support a violation(s) of the
				  Oklahoma Nursing Practice Act, then a
sworn Complaint
is prepared
				  and filed by Board staff to initiate an individual proceeding as provided for
				  in the Administrative Procedure Act, 75 O.S. §§
									309
et seq.
"Continuing education contact hours"
are
				  calculated as: 1 contact hour = 50 minutes.
"Continuous incarceration"
means a period of
				  confinement inside a penal institution, pursuant to a sentence from a court of
				  competent jurisdiction, which confinement continues uninterrupted by periods of
				  liberty from its beginning to its end. It
does not
include such
				  sentences as weekends in jail with the defendant at liberty during the
				  week.
"Controlling institution"
means the agency or
				  institution that administers the nursing education program, assumes
				  responsibility for its financing, graduates the students, and grants the
				  diploma, certificate or degree to the graduates.
"Core skills"
means the list of functions that
				  an Advanced Unlicensed Assistant should be capable of performing upon
				  completion of the certification training program and satisfactory passage of
				  the certification examination.
"Delegating"
means entrusting the performance of
				  selected nursing duties to individuals qualified, competent and legally able to
				  perform such duties.
"Distance learning program"
means 50% or more of
				  the theory components of the board-approved nursing education program are
				  offered by correspondence, on-line, through video-conferencing, or via
				  CD-ROM.
"Innovative approach"
means a creative nursing
				  education strategy that departs from the current rule structure and requires
				  Board approval for implementation.
"Key Party"
means immediate family members and
				  others who would be reasonably expected to play a significant role in health
				  care decisions of the patient and includes but is not limited to, the spouse,
				  domestic partner, sibling, parent, child, guardian, and person authorized to
				  make health care decision for the patient.
"Legal authority"
means the authorized state
				  agency for the administration of the statutes relating to the practice of
				  nursing in this state. The Oklahoma Board of Nursing is the only legal
				  authority for licensing Licensed Practical Nurses, Registered Nurses, and
				  Advanced Practice Registered Nurses; and for certifying Advanced Unlicensed
				  Assistants.
"Licensed nurse"
means a Registered Nurse or
				  "RN", a Licensed Practical Nurse or "LPN", or an Advanced Practice Registered
				  Nurse or "APRN" currently licensed by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
"Nurse Administrator"
means the Registered Nurse
				  responsible for the administration of the nursing education program or the
				  nurse holding the highest level of management in an agency/facility regardless
				  of the title used.
"Preceptor"
means a licensed nurse who is
				  employed by the facility in which the clinical experience takes place, and who
				  agrees to provide supervision to a student for a specified period of time
				  during the preceptor's scheduled work hours in order to assist the student to
				  meet identified learning objectives.
"State approved program of nursing"
means a
				  nursing education program approved by the Oklahoma Board of Nursing.
"Member board jurisdiction"
means a full member
				  board of National Council of State Boards of Nursing.
"Supervising"
means providing guidance by a
				  qualified nurse for the accomplishment of the nursing task or activity with
				  initial direction of the task or activity and periodic inspection of the actual
				  act of accomplishing a task or activity.
Amended at 8 Ok Reg
				  3579, eff 9-20-91 (emergency); Amended at 9 Ok Reg 2103, eff 6-11-92; Amended
				  at 12 Ok Reg 1463, eff 5-25-95; Amended at 14 Ok Reg 1980, eff 5-27-97; Amended
				  at 24 Ok Reg 1439, eff 7-1-07; Amended at 26 Ok Reg 1089, eff 5-11-09; Amended
				  at 27 Ok Reg 1024, eff 7-1-10; Amended at 28 Ok Reg 659, eff 7-1-11; Amended at
				  29 Ok Reg 1615, eff 7-12-12