Utah Admin. Code R432-750-3 - Definitions
Terms in this rule are defined in Rules R432-1 and R380-600. Additionally:
(1) "Appropriate" means
especially suitable, compatible, or fitting.
(2) "Bereavement" means the period, usually
occurring within the first year after the loss, when a person or group of
people experiences, responds emotionally to, and adjusts to the loss by death
of another person.
(3) "Care" means
to perceive and respond to the needs of another.
(4) "Certification in cardiopulmonary
resuscitation" refers to certification issued after completion of an in-person
course, to include skills testing and evaluation on-site with a licensed
instructor.
(5) "Family" means a
group of individuals who:
(a) are of common
ancestry;
(b) have a personal
commitment to one another; or
(c)
live in the same home.
(6) "Grief" means the response to loss that
often occurs in stages of varying length that are differentiated by changes in
feeling, thought, and behavior.
(7)
"Hospice administrator" means the person the governing body appoints in writing
that is accountable and responsible for implementing the policies and programs
approved by the governing body.
(8)
"Hospice agency" means an entity that is primarily engaged in providing care to
terminally ill individuals and their families and includes institutionally
based hospice programs, freestanding public and proprietary hospice agencies,
and any subdivision of an organization, public agency, hospital, or nursing
home licensed to provide hospice services.
(9)
(a)
"Hospice care" means the care given to the terminally ill and their family that
occurs in a home or in a health facility and includes medical, palliative,
psychosocial, spiritual, bereavement, supportive care, and treatment.
(b) Hospice care includes responding to the
scheduled and unscheduled needs of the patient and family 24 hours a day.
(10) "Hospice inpatient
facility" means a freestanding licensed hospice facility or designated hospice
licensed hospice unit in an existing health care facility.
(11) "Interdisciplinary team" means a team
composed of an attending physician, medical director, nurse, social worker,
pastoral care provider, volunteer, patient, patient's family, and any other
professionals as indicated.
(12)
"OL" means the Office of Licensing in the Division of Licensing and Background
Checks under the Department of Health and Human Services.
(13) "Palliative care" means the care given
to the terminally ill, focusing on the relief of distressing
symptoms.
(14) "Palliative
treatment" means treatment and comfort measures directed toward relief of
symptoms and pain management rather than treatment to cure.
(15) "Pastoral care provider" means an
individual who has experience in pastoral duties and is capable of providing
for the hospice patient and patient family's spiritual needs, and is an
individual who:
(a) has received a degree from
an accredited theological school;
(b) by ordination or by ecclesiastical
endorsement from the individual's denomination, has been approved to function
in a pastoral capacity; or
(c) has
received certification in Clinical Pastoral Education that meets the
requirements for the College of Chaplains.
(16) "Primary care giver" means the family
member or other person designated by the family who assumes the overall
responsibility for the care of the patient in the home.
(17) "Spiritual" means the patient and the
patient's family beliefs and practices as they relate to the meaning of their
life, death, and their connection to humanity that may or may not be of a
religious nature.
(18) "Terminal"
means a state of disease characterized by a progressive deterioration with
impairment of function that, without aggressive intervention, survival is
anticipated to be six months or less.
(19) "Volunteer" means an individual who has
received appropriate orientation and training consistent with hospice
philosophy and practice and who contributes time and talent to the hospice
program without economic remuneration.
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