For the purpose of these rules, the following definitions
shall apply:
"Advanced registered nurse practitioner" means
an advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to Iowa Code
chapter 152 or 152E.
"Department" means the department of public
health.
"Director " means the director of the
department of public health.
"Emergency medical care provider " means
emergency medical care provider as defined in Iowa Code section
147A.1.
"Health care facility" means health care
facility as defined in Iowa Code section
135C.1, ahospice
program as defined in Iowa Code section
135J.1, an elder
group home as defined in Iowa Code section
231B.1, and an
assisted living program as defined in Iowa Code section
231C.2.
"Health care provider" means an individual,
including an emergency medical care provider and an individual providing home-
and community-based services, and including a home health agency, licensed,
certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to
administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the practice of
a profession.
"Home health agency" means home health agency
as defined in 42 CFR Part 484.
"Hospital" means hospital as defined in Iowa
Code section
135B.1.
"Legal representative" means an individual
authorized to execute a POST form on behalf of a patient who is not competent
to do so, in the order of priority set out in Iowa Code section
144A.7,
subsection 1, and guided by the express or implied intentions of the patient
or, if such intentions are unknown, by the patient's best interests given the
patient's overall medical condition and prognosis.
"Patient" means an individual who is frail and
elderly or who has a chronic, critical medical condition or a terminal illness
and for which a physician orders for scope of treatment is consistent with the
individual's goals of care.
"Physician " means a person licensed to
practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this
state.
"Physician assistant" means a person licensed
as a physician assistant under Iowa Code chapter 148C.
"Physician orders for scope of treatment form"
or"POST form" means a document containing medical orders which
may be relied upon across medical settings that consolidates and summarizes a
patient's preferences for life-sustaining treatments and interventions and acts
as a complement to and does not supersede any valid advance
directive.
