Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-25-1301 - Definitions (A.R.S. Sections 36-2202(A)(4), 36-2209(A)(2), and 36-2225(A)(4))
In addition to the definitions in A.R.S. § 36-2201 and R9-25-101, the following definitions apply in this Article, unless otherwise specified:
1. "Admitted" means when a patient is either:
a. Held for observation of a trauma-related
injury; or
b. Considered an
inpatient, as defined in A.A.C.
R9-10-201.
2. "Business day" means a Monday, Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday that is not a state holiday.
3. "Designation" means a formal determination
by the Department that a health care institution complies with requirements in
A.R.S. §
36-2225 and this Article for
providing a particular Level of trauma service.
4. "Emergency department" means a designated
area of a hospital that provides emergency services, as defined in A.A.C.
R9-10-101, as an organized service,
24 hours per day, seven days per week, to individuals who present for immediate
medical services.
5. "ICD-code"
means an International Classification of Diseases code, a set of numbers or
letters or a combination of letters and numbers that specify a disease,
condition, or injury; the location of the disease, condition, or injury; or the
circumstances under which a patient may have incurred the disease, condition,
or injury, which is used by a health care institution for billing
purposes.
6. "Level I Pediatric
trauma center" means a Level I trauma center that has a trauma service
specifically intended to meet the needs of children requiring trauma
care.
7. "Level II Pediatric trauma
center" means a Level II trauma center that has a trauma service specifically
intended to meet the needs of children requiring trauma care.
8. "Medical services" means the services
pertaining to the "practice of medicine," as defined in A.R.S. §
32-1401, or "medicine," as defined
in A.R.S. §
32-1800, performed at the
direction of a physician.
9.
"National verification organization" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. §
36-2225.
10. "Nursing services" means services that
pertain to the curative, restorative, and preventive aspects of "registered
nursing," as defined in A.R.S. §
32-1601, performed:
a. At the direction of a physician;
and
b. By or under the supervision
of a registered nurse licensed:
i. According
to Title 32, Chapter 15; or
ii.
When performed in a health care institution operating under federal or tribal
law as an administrative unit of the U.S. government or a sovereign tribal
nation, by a similar licensing board in another state.
11. "On-call" means assigned to
respond and, if necessary, come to a health care institution when notified by a
personnel member of the health care institution.
12. "Organized service" has the same meaning
as in A.A.C.
R9-10-201.
13. "Owner" means one of the following:
a. For a health care institution licensed
under 9 A.A.C. 10, the licensee;
b.
For a health care institution operated under federal or tribal laws, the
administrative unit of the U.S. government or sovereign tribal nation operating
the health care institution.
14. "Personnel member" means an individual
providing medical services, nursing services, or health-related services, as
defined in A.R.S. §
36-401, to a patient.
15. "Physician" means an individual licensed:
a. According to A.R.S. Title 32, Chapter 13
or 17; or
b. When working in a
health care institution operating under federal or tribal law as an
administrative unit of the U.S. government or a sovereign tribal nation, by a
similar licensing board in another state.
16. "Signature" means:
a. A handwritten or stamped representation of
an individual's name or a symbol intended to represent an individual's name,
or
b. An "electronic signature" as
defined in A.R.S. §
44-7002.
17. "Substantial compliance" has the same
meaning as in A.R.S. §
36-401.
18. "Transport" means the conveyance of a
patient by ground ambulance or air ambulance from one location to another
location.
19. "Trauma care" means
medical services and nursing services provided to a patient suffering from a
sudden physical injury.
20. "Trauma
center" has the same meaning as in A.R.S. §
36-2225.
21. "Trauma critical care course" means a
multidisciplinary class or series of classes consisting of interactive
tutorials, skills teaching, and simulated patient management scenarios of
trauma care, consistent with training recognized by the American College of
Surgeons.
22. "Trauma facility"
means a health care institution that provides trauma care to a patient as an
organized trauma service.
23.
"Trauma service" means designated personnel members, equipment, and area within
a health care institution and the associated policies and procedures for the
personnel members to follow when providing trauma care to a patient.
24. "Trauma team" means a group of personnel
members with defined roles and responsibilities in providing trauma care to a
patient.
25. "Trauma team
activation" means a notification to respond that is sent to trauma team
personnel members in reaction to triage information received concerning a
patient with injury or suspected injury.
26. "Verification" means formal confirmation
by a national verification organization that a health care institution meets
the national verification organization's standards for providing trauma care at
a specific Level of trauma service.
Notes
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