(A) "Adult" means
an individual who is at least eighteen years of age.
(B) "Advanced practice registered nurse
(APRN)" means a certified registered nurse anesthetist, clinical nurse
specialist, certifed nurse-midwife
certified nurse midwife or certified nurse
practitioner under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code. This was previously
called advanced practice nurse (APN).
(C) "Approved child day camp" means a child
day camp approved pursuant to section
5104.22 of the Revised Code.
(1) Approved child day camps shall meet one
of the following requirements:
(a) Be
accredited by the American camp association (ACA).
(b) Be accredited by any nationally
recognized organization that accredits child day camps by using standards that
the Ohio department of job and family services (ODJFS) has determined are substantially similar and
comparable to those of the ACA.
(2) Approved child day camps shall meet the
requirements in sections
5104.21 and
5104.22 of the Revised Code, and
Chapter 5101:2-18 of the Administrative Code.
(D)
"Authorized
representative" means an individual employed by a child day camp that is owned
by a person other than an individual and who is authorized by the owner to do
all of the following:
(1)
Communicate on the owner's behalf.
(2)
Submit child day
camp registrations and applications for approval on the owner's
behalf.
(3)
Enter into provider agreements for publicly funded
child care on the owner's behalf.
(D)(E) "Certified nurse
practitioner (CNP)" means a registered nurse who holds a valid certificate of
authority issued under Chapter 4723. of the Revised Code that authorizes the
practice of nursing as a CNP in accordance with section
4723.43 of the Revised Code and
rules adopted by the board of nursing.
(E)(F) "Child care"
per section
5104.01 of the Revised
Code means all of the following:
(1)
Administering to the needs of infants, toddlers, preschool-age children, and
school-age children outside of school hours;
(2) By persons other than their parents,
guardians, or custodians;
(3) For
part of the twenty-four-hour day;
(4) In a place other than a child's own home,
except that an in-home aide provides child care in the child's own
home;
(5) By a provider required by
Chapter 5104. of the Revised Code to be licensed or approved by the department
of job and family services, certified by a county department of job and family
services, or under contract with the department to provide publicly funded
child care as described in section
5104.32 of the Revised
Code.
(F)(G) "Child day camp"
means a program in which only school-age children attend or participate, that
operates for no more than twelve hours per day and no more than fifteen weeks
during the summer. For purposes of this chapter, the maximum twelve hours of
operation time does not include transportation time from a child's home to a
child day camp and from a child day camp to a child's home.
(G)(H)
"Child day camp administrator" means the individual
who holds overall responsibility for administration
person responsible for the daily operation of the
child day camp. The administrator and the owner may be the same person. The
administrator is also a child day camp staff member.
(H)(I) "Child day camp
owner" includes a person, firm, organization,
institution or agency who operates a child day camp
as 'person' is defined in section
1.59 of the Revised Code, or a
government entity.
(I)(J) "Child day camp
staff member" means an employee of an approved child day camp who is primarily
responsible for the care and supervision of children. The administrator,
authorized representative or owner may be a child day camp staff member when
not involved in other duties.
(K)
"Corrective action plan" describes the action taken by
the program to correct a non-compliance finding by ODJFS. This plan does not
confirm the program is in compliance with the rule, or negate the
non-compliance finding. Corrective action plans are submitted in the Ohio child
licensing and quality system (OCLQS) and are to be completed in their entirety
to be approved.
(J)(L) "Employee" means a
person who either:
(1) Receives compensation
for duties performed in an approved child day camp; or
(2) Is assigned specific working hours or
duties in an approved child day camp.
(K)(M) "Field trips" means
infrequent or irregularly scheduled excursions from the camp.
(L)(N)
"Hazardous weather conditions" means winds of twenty miles per hour or greater,
continuous or heavy rain, hail, extreme temperatures, lightening or tornado
warnings or watches within a twenty mile radius of a child day camp activity
site.
(M)(O) "Medication" means
any substance or preparation which is used to prevent or treat a wound, injury,
infection, infirmity or disease. This includes medication that is over the
counter, or prescribed or recommended by a physician or advance practice nurse
certified to prescribe medication, and permitted
by the parent for administration or application.
(P)
"Modified diet"
means any diet eliminating any one or more food groups.
(N)(Q)
"Natural bodies of water" mean any river, stream, creek or spring or any
natural or man-made lake or pond.
(O)(R) "On-site" means
to be at a primary use space where regular
child day camp programming takes place.
(P)(S) "Operate a child
day camp" means to operate, establish, manage, conduct, or maintain a child day
camp.
(Q)(T) "Parent" means the
father or mother of a child, an adult who has legal custody of a child, an
adult who is the guardian of the child, or an adult who stands in loco parentis
with respect to a child, and whose presence in the home is needed as the
caretaker of the child. Parent has the same meaning as "caretaker parent" as
defined in section 5104.01 of the Revised
Code.
(R)(U) "Physician" means a
person issued a certificate to practice in accordance with Chapter 4731. of the
Revised Code or
and rules adopted by the state medical board
of
or a
comparable body in another state.
(S)(V) "Physician
assistant (PA)" means a person who has obtained a valid certificate to practice
in accordance with Chapter 4730. of the Revised Code or
and rules adopted
by the state medical board or a comparable body
of
in another
state.
(T)(W) "Primary use space"
means any space, including buildings and/or tracts of land, that is used by the
child day camp at least seventy per cent of the day for programming purposes
involving the enrolled children. Primary use spaces do not include areas that
are not owned, rented or operated by the camp such as field trip locations or
routine trip locations.
(U)(X) "Primitive
campsite" means any outdoor space in a natural environment without access to
electricity, water supply systems, central food service, sewage treatment
facilities and/or housing.
(V)(Y) "Public children
services agency (PCSA)" means an entity specified in section
5153.02 of the Revised Code that
has assumed the powers and duties of the children services function prescribed
by Chapter 5153. of the Revised Code for a county.
(W)(Z) "Registered child
day camp" means a camp that has completed and submitted a registration and fee
to ODJFS for the purpose of reporting the operation of a child day camp.
Registered child day camps are assigned a registration number and are included
in the ODJFS searchable database of child care providers in the state of Ohio.
Registered child day camps shall abide by rule
5101:2-18-02 of the
Administrative Code, but are not considered "approved child day camps" and are
not required to abide by the rules in Chapter 5101:2-18 of the Administrative
Code that refer to camps approved to provide publicly funded child
care.
(X)(AA) "Routine trips"
means repeated excursions off the child day camp premises which regularly occur
on a previously scheduled basis with parental permission.
(Y)(BB)
"School-age child" means a child who is enrolled in or is eligible to be
enrolled in a grade of kindergarten or above but is less than fifteen years old
or, in the case of a child who is receiving special needs child care, is less
than eighteen years old.
(Z)(CC) "Special needs
child care" means child care provided to a child who is less than eighteen
years of age and either has one or more chronic health conditions or does not
meet age appropriate expectations in one or more areas of development,
including social, emotional, cognitive, communicative, perceptual, motor,
physical, and behavioral development and that may include on a regular basis
such services, adaptations, modifications, or adjustments needed to assist in
the child's function or development.
(AA)(DD) "Specialized
activities" means those camp program activities that meet one or more of the
following:
(1) Require a specialized skill set
or knowledge.
(2) Use equipment,
animals or tools that require supervision by a person skilled in their
use.
(3) Involve the use of fire or
the use of heat-producing equipment or substances.
(4) Require injury-protection equipment, such
as, but not limited to, helmets, goggles or padding.
(5) Consist of specific sport related
programs only, such as, but not limited to, baseball, lacrosse, soccer,
etc.
