Ohio Administrative Code › Title 3701 - Department of Health - Administration and Director › Chapter 3701-19 - Hospice Care Programs › Section 3701-19-30 - Definitions

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
As used in rules
				3701-19-30 to
				3701-19-52 of the Administrative
				Code:
(A) "Advanced Practice Nurse"
			 means a registered nurse authorized to practice as a certified nurse
			 specialist, certified registered nurse anesthetist, certified nurse midwife or
			 certified nurse practitioner in accordance with section
			 4723.41 of the Revised
			 Code;
(B) "Applicant" means a
			 person or public agency that submits an application for a license to provide a
			 pediatric respite care program under rule
			 3701-19-32 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(C) "Attending physician"
			 means the physician identified by the pediatric respite care patient or the
			 pediatric respite care patient's family as having primary responsibility for
			 the pediatric respite care patient's medical care.
(D) "Child Life Specialist" means an
			 individual who has a minimum of a bachelor's degree in child life, child
			 development and other related field.
(E) "Dietitian" means an individual licensed
			 under Chapter 4759. of the Revised Code to practice dietetics.
(F) "Director" means the director of health
			 or any official or employee of the department of health designated by the
			 director of health.
(G) "Governing
			 body" means the entity that has ultimate responsibility and authority for the
			 overall operation of a pediatric respite care program, as specified in rule
			 3701-19-37 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(H) "Inpatient facility"
			 means a facility that either is operated by or under contract with a pediatric
			 respite care program for the purpose of providing inpatient care to the
			 program's patients.
(I) "Inpatient
			 pediatric respite care facility" means a building or leased unit operated by a
			 pediatric respite care program where the pediatric respite care program
			 directly provides accommodations and pediatric respite care services for its
			 pediatric respite care patients.
(J) "Interdisciplinary plan of care" or "plan
			 of care" means the interdisciplinary plan for care of a pediatric respite care
			 patient and his or her family prepared under rule
			 3701-19-40 of the Administrative
			 Code.
(K) "Interdisciplinary team"
			 means a working unit composed of professional and lay persons that includes at
			 a minimum a physician, a registered nurse, a social worker, a child life
			 specialist, and a member of the clergy or a counselor.
(L) "Licensed Practical Nurse" means a person
			 licensed under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code to practice nursing as a
			 licensed practical nurse.
(M)
			 "Nurse" means a registered nurse or licensed practical nurse.
(N) "Palliative care" means treatment for a
			 patient with a serious or life-threatening illness directed at controlling
			 pain, relieving other symptoms, and enhancing the quality of life of the
			 patient and the patient's family rather than treatment for the purpose of cure.
			 Nothing in this section 
								will be interpreted to mean that palliative care
			 can be provided only as a component of a pediatric respite care
			 program.
(O) "Pediatric respite
			 care patient" or "patient" means a patient, other than a hospice patient, who
			 is less than twenty-seven years of age who has been diagnosed with a disease or
			 condition prior to the age of eighteen that is life threatening and is expected
			 to shorten the life expectancy that would have applied to the patient absent
			 the patient's diagnosis, regardless of whether the patient is terminally ill,
			 who has voluntarily requested and is receiving care from a licensed pediatric
			 respite care program.
(P)
			 "Pediatric respite care program" means a program operated by a person or public
			 agency that provides inpatient respite care and related services, including all
			 of the following services, only to pediatric respite care patients and
			 pediatric respite care patients' families, in order to meet the physical,
			 psychological, spiritual, and other special needs that are experienced during
			 or leading up to the final stages of illness, dying, and bereavement:
(1) Short-term inpatient care, including both
			 palliative and respite care and procedures;
(2) Nursing care by or under the supervision
			 of a registered nurse;
(3)
			 Physicians' services;
(4) Medical
			 social services by a social worker under the director of a physician;
(5) Medical supplies, including drugs and
			 biologicals, and the use of medical appliances;
(6) Counseling for pediatric respite care
			 patients and pediatric respite care patients' families; and
(7) Bereavement services for respite care
			 patients' families.