Rhode Island Code of Regulations › Title 216 - Department of health › Chapter 40 - Professional licensing and facility regulation › Subchapter 05 - Professional Licensing › Part 35 - Doctors of Naturopathy (216-RICR-40-05-35) › Section 216-RICR-40-05-35.2 - Definitions

Current through June 14, 2024
A. Wherever used in this Part, the terms
				  listed below shall be construed in the following manner:
1. "Acupuncture" means the insertion of
				  needles into the human body by piercing the skin of the body, for the purpose
				  of controlling and regulating the flow and balance of energy in the body, as
				  defined by R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-37.2-2(1).
				  For the purposes of this Part; "medical acupuncture" means acupuncture as
				  practiced by physicians licensed under the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter
				  5-37.
2. "Act" means R.I. Gen. Laws
				  Chapter 5-36.1 entitled, "The Licensure of Naturopathy Act".
3. "Board" means the board of licensure of
				  naturopathy or any committee or subcommittee thereof established under the
				  provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-36.1-8.
4. "Collaborative and consultation agreement"
				  means an agreement between a doctor of naturopathy and a physician licensed
				  under R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-37. The collaboration and consultation agreement
				  shall include all requirements set forth in R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-36.1-12.
5. "Director" means the Director of the Rhode
				  Island Department of Health.
6.
				  "Doctor of acupuncture" means a person who has been licensed under the
				  provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws Chapter 5-37.2 to practice the art of healing
				  known as acupuncture.
7. "Doctor of
				  naturopathy" means a person who practices naturopathic health care and is
				  licensed pursuant to the provisions of R.I. Gen. Laws §
											5-36.1-13.
8. "License" is synonymous with registration
				  certificate.
9. "Medical record"
				  means a record of a patient's medical information and treatment history
				  maintained by physicians and other medical personnel, which includes, but is
				  not limited to, information related to medical diagnosis, immunizations,
				  allergies, x-rays, copies of laboratory reports, records of prescriptions, and
				  other technical information used in assessing the patient's health condition,
				  whether such information is maintained in a paper or electronic
				  format.
10. "Natural" means present
				  in, produced by, or derived from nature.
11. "Naturopathic health care" or "practice
				  of naturopathic health care" means a system of health care that utilizes
				  education, natural substances and natural therapies to support and stimulate a
				  patient's intrinsic self-healing processes and to prevent, and treat human
				  health conditions and injuries.
12.
				  "Person" means any individual, partnership, firm corporation, (including, but
				  not limited to, associations, joint stock companies, limited liability
				  companies, and insurance companies), trust or estate, state or political
				  subdivision or instrumentality of a state.
13. "Physician" means any person licensed to
				  practice allopathic or osteopathic medicine pursuant to the provisions of R.I.
				  Gen. Laws Chapter 5-37.
14. "RIDOH"
				  means the Rhode Island Department of Health.