New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 43E - GENERAL LICENSURE PROCEDURES AND STANDARDS APPLICABLE TO ALL LICENSED FACILITIES › Subchapter 12 - SAFE PATIENT HANDLING › Section 8:43E-12.2 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall
				  have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise.
"Assessment of patient's need for assisted patient handling" or
				  "patient assessment" means the assessment required to determine a patient's required
				  level of assisted patient handling, taking into account the patient's physical and
				  cognitive condition and ensuring consistency with patient safety, well-being and
				  preference.
"Assisted patient handling" means patient handling using
				  mechanical patient handling equipment including, but not limited to, electric beds,
				  portable base and ceiling track-mounted full body sling lifts, stand assist lifts
				  and mechanized lateral transfer aids; and patient handling aids including, but not
				  limited to, gait belts with handles, sliding boards and surface friction-reducing
				  devices.
"Committee" means the safe patient handling committee established
				  at a covered facility.
"Covered health care facility" or "covered facility" means a
				  general hospital, special hospital, county or private psychiatric hospital or
				  nursing home licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services pursuant to
				  P.L. 1971, c. 136 (26:2H-1 et seq.).
"De-identified" means information that does not specifically
				  identify the individual or individuals involved, either by name or other
				  pre-assigned identification number and that makes a reasonable effort to prevent the
				  individual or individuals involved from being identified from such
				  information.
"Health care worker" means an individual who is directly employed
				  by a covered health care facility and whose job duties entail patient
				  handling.
"Injury investigation" means an in-depth analysis of a health care
				  worker injury sustained during patient handling that is designed to identify both
				  direct and underlying causes of the injury, in order to develop corrective actions
				  that could reduce the potential for similar injuries in the future.
"Near miss" means an occurrence that could have resulted in an
				  adverse event to someone, but the adverse event was prevented.
"OSHA" means the Occupational Safety and Health Administration of
				  the United States Department of Labor.
"Patient" means a patient or resident at a covered health care
				  facility.
"Patient handling" means the lifting, transferring, repositioning,
				  transporting or moving of an individual who is a patient in a covered health care
				  facility.
"Safe patient handling program" or "program" means the program
				  established by a covered facility pursuant to
				  26:2H-14.8 et seq. and N.J.A.C.
				  8:43E-12.
"Unassisted patient handling" means patient handling using a
				  health care worker's body strength without the use of mechanical patient handling
				  equipment or patient handling aids.