Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 310 - Oklahoma State Department of Health › Chapter 555 - Notification of Communicable Disease Risk Exposure › Section 310:555-1-2 - 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:
"Designee providing post-exposure follow-up"
means
				any person authorized by law and designated by the employer to be responsible
				for counseling the exposed health care worker, emergency responder or funeral
				worker regarding the potential risks, need for further evaluation, testing and
				treatment, and communicating source patient test results. Examples would be
				case managers, occupational health practitioners, infection control
				practitioners, etc. This person should be current with the latest issues
				regarding occupational exposures and are responsible to comply with 63 O.S.
				Supp. 2001, Section 1-502.1 et seq.
"Emergency responder"
means fire fighters,
				certified or designated first responders, emergency medical technicians and
				peace officers.
"Funeral worker"
means any person who prepares a
				corpse for burial or other disposition.
"Good Samaritan"
means where no prior contractual
				relationship exists, any person who in good faith renders or attempts to render
				emergency care consisting of artificial respiration, restoration of breathing,
				or preventing or retarding the loss of blood, or aiding or restoring heart
				action or circulation of blood to the victim or victims of an accident or
				emergency, wherever required, shall not be liable for any civil damages as a
				result of any acts or omissions by such person in rendering the emergency care.
"Health care facility"
means any hospital, medical
				center, clinic, medical examiner, ambulatory surgical center, home care agency,
				hospice, nursing facility, assisted living facility and residential care
				facility or other inpatient or outpatient health care supplier to which a
				source patient is transported after a risk exposure.
"Health care facility designated person"
means the
				person authorized by law and designated by the health care facility to be
				responsible for following up reported risk exposures.
"Health care worker"
means any health care
				facility employee, physician, nurse or other health care provider whose job
				activities involve contact with patients or with any blood or body fluids from
				patients in an inpatient or outpatient health care facility, including the
				patient's home.
"Licensed health care professional"
means a
				physician, a registered nurse, or a physician assistant (PA).
"Occupational Risk disease"
for the purpose of
				these rules, are those infectious diseases which are transmitted from
				person-to-person by close or intimate contact with blood or body secretions and
				which may pose an occupational risk to emergency responders, health care
				workers, and funeral workers. Such diseases include, but are not limited to,
				Hepatitis B (HBV), Hepatitis C (HCV), Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV),
				meningococcus, measles, pertussis and tuberculosis.
"Potentially infectious body fluids"
means blood
				or blood products; semen or vaginal secretions; pleural, synovial,
				cerebrospinal, pericardial, peritoneal and amniotic fluids; any fluid visibly
				contaminated with blood; and all body fluids in situations where it is
				difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids.
"Risk exposure"
means an exposure which has been
				epidemiologically demonstrated to pose a risk for transmission of an
				occupational risk disease. Such an exposure would include a parenteral (e.g.
				needle stick or cut), permucosal (e.g. mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or splash
				to the eye or mouth) exposure to blood or other body fluids, or contact with
				blood to skin which is chapped, abraded or afflicted with dermatitis or
				exposure to respiratory secretions.
"Source patient"
means the person to whom the
				health care worker, emergency responder, or funeral worker has had a risk
				exposure.
Amended at 10 Ok Reg 631,
				eff 1-1-93 (emergency); Amended at 10 Ok Reg 1717, eff 6-1-93; Amended at 21 Ok
				Reg 239, eff 11-6-03 (emergency); Amended at 21 Ok Reg 1041, eff
				5-13-04