Ohio Admin. Code 4723-23-01 - Definitions
For purposes of this chapter the following definitions apply:
(A) "Delegation" means the
transfer of responsibility for the performance of a selected task or activity
from a licensed health care professional authorized to perform the task or
activity to an individual who does not have the authority to perform the task
or activity.
(B) "Dialysis care"
means performing and monitoring dialysis procedures which include initiating or
discontinuing dialysis, drawing blood, administering medications authorized by
division (C) of section
4723.72 of the Revised Code, and
responding to complications that arise in conjunction with dialysis.
(C) "Dialysis technician" or "DT" means an
individual who is certified by the board according to section
4723.75 of the Revised
Code.
(D) "Dialysis technician
intern" or "DTI" means an individual who has not passed the dialysis technician
certification examination but meets the requirements
set forth in section 4723.76 of the Revised Code
required by section
4723.751 of the Revised Code,
but who has successfully completed a dialysis training program approved by the
board of nursing under section
4723.74 of the Revised Code
within the previous eighteen months.
(E) "Dialysis training program" means a
program approved by the board according to rule
4723-23-07 of the Administrative
Code that consists of not less than three hundred twenty clock hours of
instruction including both of the following:
(1) A minimum of one hundred clock hours of
faculty-interactive theoretical instruction, which may be on-line;
and
(2) A minimum of two hundred
twenty clock hours of supervised clinical experience.
(F) "Discontinue" means to cease or
stop.
(G) "Inactive status" means
the status of the certificate of an individual who has made a written request
that the board place the certificate on inactive status. An individual with an
inactive certificate does not hold a current, valid certificate and is not
authorized to provide dialysis care.
(H) "Initiate" means to start or to
begin.
(I) "Monitor" means to
collect objective and subjective data and observe the dialysis patient for
signs or symptoms of any change in physiological or psychosocial status or
complications related to dialysis, to check or regulate the performance of the
machines used in performing dialysis, and to report any irregularity to the
physician or licensed nurse as appropriate.
(J) "Home" means the private residence of a
patient, and does not mean a residential care facility, assisted living
facility, rehabilitation facility, nursing home, long term care facility, or
group home licensed by the state of Ohio.
(K) "Lapsed" means the status of a
certificate of an individual who did not meet all the requirements of
certificate renewal, and who did not request that the board place the
certificate on inactive status prior to the renewal deadline.
(L) "Site visit" means an announced or
unannounced visit to a dialysis training program by a board representative to
determine whether the program meets or maintains the minimum standards required
by the board.
(M) "Supervise" or
"supervision" means initial and ongoing direction, procedural guidance,
observation, and evaluation; and, except when dialysis care is being performed
in the patient's home, requires a dialysis technician to be in the immediate
presence of a physician or registered nurse.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 4723.79
Rule Amplifies: 4723.71, 4723.72, 4723.73, 4723.74, 4723.75, 4723.77, 4723.79
Prior Effective Dates: 10/01/2000, 02/01/2002, 02/01/2006, 02/01/2014, 02/01/2016, 01/01/2018, 02/01/2021
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