North Dakota Administrative Code › Title 33 - State Department of Health › Article 33-13 - Mental Health and Retardation Service Units › Chapter 33-13-01 - Licensure of Community Mental Health and Retardation Centers (Service Units) › Section 33-13-01-05 - Glossary

Current through Supplement No. 393, July, 2024
1. "Affiliate" means an agency which provides
				services included in the organization and operation of a community mental
				health and retardation center and which is related to that center by formal
				agreement or contract.
2.
				"Aftercare" means the process of providing continued contact with a patient
				after the patient's treatment at the center.
3. "Alcoholism program" means a program
				designed to identify, evaluate, and treat persons who experience problems
				related to alcohol use.
4. "Audit
				(financial)" means an independent opinion by a certified public accountant
				verifying the center's financial condition as to its soundness and validity.
5. "Clinical staff" means that
				group of personnel which is directly involved in patient care and treatment.
6. "Consultation" means the act of
				providing information or technical assistance, or both, to a particular group
				or individual seeking to resolve an existing or potential problem.
7. "Contract" means a formal legal document
				adopted by the center's governing body and any other organization, agency, or
				individual that specifies services, personnel, and space to be provided to the
				program as well as the moneys to be expended in exchange.
8. "Cost accounting" means the accounting
				procedure concerned with the determination of costs of services provided by the
				center, as well as the provision of data for control of operations.
9. "Diagnostic service" means an assessment
				or evaluation of a patient including recommendations for appropriate care
				carried out by center staff.
10.
				"Documentation" means provision of evidence to substantiate compliance with
				standards such as minutes of meetings, memoranda, schedules, notices, and
				announcements.
11. "Education"
				means the dissemination of relevant information to professionals and laymen
				about any aspect of mental health.
12. "Emergency care" means the provision of
				immediate mental health care and evaluation for persons in crisis on a
				twenty-four hour a day basis.
13.
				"Executive director" means the mental health professional appointed by the
				governing authority to act in its behalf in the overall management of the
				center.
14. "Fiscal management
				system" means procedures that provide management control of the financial
				aspects of program operations such as budgeting, materials purchasing, and
				patient billing.
15. "Full-time
				employee" means a person employed by the center to work the regular forty-hour
				week.
16. "Inpatient care" means
				the treatment of patients who require twenty-four hour supervision in a
				hospital setting as a result of mental disorder.
17. "Medical care" means those diagnostic and
				treatment services that are provided by or under the supervision of a licensed
				physician.
18. "Medical director"
				means a licensed physician (psychiatrist) who has responsibility for the
				medical care of center patients.
19. "Medication" means the use of drugs in
				the treatment of patients.
20.
				"Mental health professional" means an individual who has completed successfully
				an organized program of education and training devoted to principles of mental
				health and the care and treatment of those with mental disorders, or a person
				who has completed successfully a basic education in another discipline who, by
				virtue of additional training or experience, becomes qualified to carry out the
				person's professional activities in a mental health setting.
21. "Outpatient care" means the process of
				providing mental health services to patients on a regularly scheduled basis
				with arrangements made for nonscheduled visits during times of increased stress
				or crisis.
22. "Partial care"
				means those treatment services which are usually available and utilized by
				patients who require less than twenty-four hour a day care, but more than
				outpatient care.
23. "Patient
				(client)" means an individual who has contacted the center seeking service and
				for whom treatment responsibility is accepted by the center.
24. "Patient record" means a compilation of
				those events and processes that describe and document the evaluation and
				treatment of the patient.
25.
				"Physician" means a doctor of medicine, licensed to practice medicine in North
				Dakota.
26. "Precare and aftercare
				service" means the screening of patients prior to hospital admissions,
				home-visiting before and after hospitalization, and maintaining contact with
				the patient after discharge from the center's treatment program.
27. "Psychiatric nurse" means a professional
				who is licensed to practice in North Dakota and holds a master's degree in the
				clinical speciality of psychiatry.
28. "Psychiatrist" means a physician with
				three years of approved residency training in psychiatry who is licensed to
				practice medicine in North Dakota.
29. "Psychologist" means a person who holds a
				doctor's degree in psychology who is licensed by the state of North Dakota.
30. "Rehabilitative service" means
				social and vocational activities related to increasing the social and
				vocational skills of patients.
31.
				"Social worker" means a person who holds a master's degree from an accredited
				school of social work and, if required, is licensed by the state of North
				Dakota.
General Authority:
NDCC 28-32-02
Law Implemented:
NDCC 25-12-02(5), 25-12-04(5)