New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 42A - LIFE-THREATENING EMERGENCIES › Subchapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 10:42A-1.3 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
For the purpose of this chapter, the following terms shall
				  have the meaning defined herein:
"Assistant Commissioner" means the Assistant Commissioner of
				  the Division of Developmental Disabilities.
"Chief executive officer" (CEO) means the person having
				  administrative authority over, and responsibility for, a State-operated
				  developmental center or private licensed facility for the developmentally
				  disabled under N.J.A.C, 10:47, Standards for Private Licensed Facilities for
				  Persons with Developmental Disabilities.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the Department of
				  Human Services.
"Contested matter" means an adversarial proceeding, including
				  any licensing proceeding, in which the legal rights, duties, obligations,
				  privileges, benefits, or other legal relations of specific parties are required
				  by constitutional right or by statute to be determined by an agency by
				  decisions, determinations, or orders, addressed to them or disposing of their
				  interests, after opportunity for an agency hearing. (
N.J.S.A.
				  52:14B-2
;
N.J.A.C.
				  1:1
)
"Contract employee" means a person who works directly with
				  persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury and is under
				  contract with the Department of Human Services or is an employee of a private
				  agency that is under contract with the Department of Human Services.
"Department" means the Department of Human Services.
"Division" means the Division of Developmental
				  Disabilities.
"Do Not Resuscitate Order" or "DNR Order" means a physician's
				  written order not to attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation in a hospital or
				  out-of-hospital situation in the event the person suffers cardiac or
				  respiratory arrest.
"Executive director" means the individual with administrative
				  authority over a residential program licensed in accordance with N.J.A.C.
				  10:44A, Standards for Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental
				  Disabilities, N.J.A.C. 10:44C, Standards for Community Residences for Persons
				  with Head Injuries, and N.J.A.C. 10:47, Standards for Private Licensed
				  Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, or agency under
				  contract with or regulated by the Division.
"Facility" means a facility for persons with developmental
				  disabilities or a facility for persons with traumatic brain injury.
"Facility for persons with developmental disabilities" means
				  a facility operated by the Division including developmental centers, under
				  contract with the Division or licensed under N.J.A.C. 10:44A, Standards for
				  Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental Disabilities N.J.A.C.
				  10:44B, Standards for Community Residences for Individuals with Developmental
				  Disabilities (Community Care Residences), or N.J.A.C. 10:47, Standards for
				  Private Licensed Facilities for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, or
				  program under contract with or regulated by the Division.
"Facility for persons with traumatic brain injury" means a
				  facility for persons with traumatic brain injury that is licensed under
				  N.J.A.C. 10:44C, Standards for Community Residences for Persons with Head
				  Injuries, or under contract with the Department.
"Life-threatening emergency" means a situation in which a
				  prudent person could reasonably believe that immediate intervention is
				  necessary to protect the life of a person receiving services at a facility for
				  persons with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury or to protect
				  the lives of other persons at the facility or agency, from an immediate threat
				  or actual occurrence of a potentially fatal injury, impairment to bodily
				  functions, or dysfunction of a bodily organ or part.
"Medical professional" means a physician, physician's
				  assistant, advanced practice nurse or registered nurse.
"911 call" means a telephone call to the emergency 911
				  system.
"Office of Administrative Law" (OAL) means an independent
				  unit assigned to the Department of Treasury, which has the authority to hear
				  contested matters.
"Practitioner's Order for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST)"
				  means a form of standardized medical order signed by a physician or advanced
				  practice nurse that comports with New Jersey State laws and rules.
"Staff" means any licensee and any full time, part time,
				  temporary employment services or contract employee at a facility for persons
				  with developmental disabilities or traumatic brain injury present in the living
				  or program area who work directly with the person served. For the purpose of
				  this rule, this term does not include housekeepers, food service workers,
				  maintenance workers, clerical staff or volunteers.
"Under contract" means a provider under a written agreement
				  with the Division or a provider approved by the Division to provide disability
				  services to individuals who are eligible to receive services from the
				  Division.