Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES SERVICES › Chapter 388-829R - Overnight planned respite services › Section 388-829R-005 - What definitions apply to this chapter?

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The following definitions apply to this chapter:
"Administrator" means the person responsible for daily
				  management and operation of the overnight planned respite services site. The
				  administrator may also be the owner.
"Authorization" means DDA approval of funding for a service
				  as identified in the person-centered service plan or evidence of payment for a
				  service.
"Client" means a person who has a developmental disability as
				  defined in
				  RCW
				  71A.10.020 and who the DDA has determined
				  eligible to receive services under chapter 71A.16 RCW. When used in this
				  section, "you" is interchangeable with client.
"DDA" means the developmental disabilities administration, an
				  administration of the department of social and health services and its
				  employees and authorized agents.
"Direct support professional" means a person who interacts
				  directly with a client during an overnight planned respite stay to provide
				  services outlined in the client's overnight planned respite services
				  individualized agreement.
"DSHS" or "the department" means the state of Washington
				  department of social and health services and its employees and authorized
				  agents.
"Family" means one or more of the following relatives: Spouse
				  or registered domestic partner; natural; adoptive; or stepparent; grandparent;
				  child; stepchild; sibling; stepsibling; uncle; aunt; first cousin; niece; or
				  nephew.
"Legal representative" means a parent of a client if the
				  client is under age 18, a court-appointed guardian if a decision is within the
				  scope of the guardianship order, or any other person authorized by law to act
				  for the client.
"Mandatory reporter" means any person working with vulnerable
				  adults required to report suspected incidents of abandonment, abuse, neglect,
				  financial exploitation under chapter 74.34 RCW.
"Nurse delegation" means the process by which a registered
				  nurse transfers the performance of select nursing tasks to a nursing
				  assistant-registered or nursing assistant-certified in select situations as set
				  forth in chapter 18.79 RCW and WAC
				  246-840-910 through
				  246-840-970.
"Overnight planned respite services" means services that are
				  intended to provide short-term intermittent relief for a person who lives with
				  and acts as a DDA client's primary caregiver.
"Overnight planned respite services provider" and "provider"
				  means an agency that is contracted to provide overnight planned respite
				  services.
"Owner" means the person who accepts or delegates
				  responsibility for the management and operation of the overnight planned
				  respite services site. The owner may also be the administrator.
"Primary caregiver" means the person who provides the
				  client's care and supervision and lives with the client.
Reviser's note:
The typographical error in the
					 above section occurred in the copy filed by the agency and appears in the
					 Register pursuant to the requirements of
					 RCW
					 34.08.040.