Washington Administrative Code › Title 246 - Health, Department of › PROFESSIONAL STANDARDS AND LICENSING › Chapter 246-851 - Optometrists › SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER MONITORING › Section 246-851-450 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
The definitions in this section apply in WAC
					 246-851-440 through
					 246-851-470 unless the context
					 clearly requires otherwise.
(1)
				  "Aftercare" means that period of time after intensive treatment that provides
				  the optometrist and the optometrist's family with group or individual
				  counseling sessions, discussions with other families, ongoing contact and
				  participation in self-help groups and ongoing continued support of treatment
				  program staff.
(2) "Approved
				  substance use disorder monitoring program" or "approved monitoring program"
				  means a program the board has determined meets the requirements of the law and
				  the criteria established by the board in WAC
				  246-851-460 which enters into a
				  contract with optometrists who have substance use disorder problems regarding
				  the required components of the optometrist's recovery activity and oversees the
				  optometrist's compliance with these requirements. Substance use disorder
				  monitoring programs do not provide evaluation or treatment to participating
				  optometrists.
(3) "Approved
				  treatment facility" means a facility recognized as such according to
				  RCW
				  18.130.175(1).
(4) "Contract" means a comprehensive,
				  structured agreement between the recovering optometrist and the approved
				  monitoring program stipulating the optometrist's consent to comply with the
				  monitoring program and its required components of the optometrist's recovery
				  activity.
(5) "Health care
				  professional" means an individual who is licensed, certified, or registered in
				  Washington to engage in the delivery of health care to patients.
(6) "Impaired" or "impairment" means the
				  inability to practice optometry with reasonable skill and safety to patients by
				  reason of a health condition.
(7)
				  "Random drug screens" means laboratory tests to detect the presence related to
				  a substance use disorder in body fluids which are performed at irregular
				  intervals not known in advance by the person being tested.
(8) "Substance use disorder" means the
				  impairment, as determined by the board, of an optometrist's professional
				  services by any addiction to, a dependency on, or the use of alcohol, legend
				  drugs, or controlled substances.
(9) "Support group" means a group of health
				  care professionals meeting regularly to support the recovery of its members.
				  The group provides a confidential setting with a trained and experienced health
				  care professional facilitator in which optometrists may safely discuss drug
				  diversion, licensure issues, return to work and other professional issues
				  related to recovery.
(10) "Twelve
				  step groups" means groups such as alcoholics anonymous, narcotics anonymous and
				  related organizations based on a philosophy of anonymity, belief in a power
				  outside of oneself, a peer group association, and self-help.
Statutory Authority:
						RCW
						18.54.070,
						18.130.050 and
						18.130.186. 92-06-030 (Order
						248B), § 246-851-450, filed 2/26/92, effective
						3/28/92.