W. Va. Code R. § 19-14-2 - Definitions
2.1. As used in
this rule, the following words and terms have the following meaning:
2.1.a. "Administering" means the direct
application of a drug to the body of a patient by injection, inhalation,
ingestion or any other means by a registered professional nurse with valid
prescribing privileges.
2.1.b.
"Authorized agent" means an individual, who is an employee of any of the
covered persons or entities permitted to have access to the central repository
who is specifically designated by the Advanced Practice Registered Nurse with
prescriptive privileges to access the central repository on behalf of the
covered person or entity.
2.1.c.
"Board" means the West Virginia Board for Registered Nurses as described at W.
Va. Code §
30-7-1 et seq.
2.1.d. "Chronic nonmalignant pain" means pain
that has persisted after reasonable medical efforts have been made to relieve
the pain or cure its cause and that has continued, either continuously or
episodically, for longer than 3 continuous months. For purposes of this rule,
"chronic nonmalignant pain" does not include pain associated with a terminal
condition or illness or with a progressive disease that, in the normal course
of progression, may reasonably be expected to result in a terminal condition or
illness.
2.1.e. "Controlled
substance" means a drug that is classified by federal or state law in Schedules
I, II, Ill, IV or V, as defined in W. Va. Code §
60A-2-204 through 212.
2.1.f. "Course of treatment" means the period
of time necessary to effect a cure for an acute disease, or the period of time
from one office visit until the next scheduled or anticipated office visit for
a chronic disease.
2.1.g. "CSMP"
means the West Virginia Controlled Substances Monitoring Program repository and
database.
2.1.h. "DEA registration
identification number" means the federal Drug Enforcement Administration
registration identification number issued to a practitioner.
2.1.i. "Dispensing" means the preparation and
delivery of a drug to an ultimate user by or pursuant to a lawful order of a
practitioner, including the prescribing, packaging, labeling, administering or
compounding necessary to prepare the drug for that delivery.
2.1.j. "Medical records" means records
including the medical history and physical examination; diagnostic, therapeutic
and laboratory results; evaluations and consultations; treatment objectives;
discussion of risks and benefits; informed consent; treatments; medications
(including date, type, dosage and quantity provided); instructions and
agreements; and periodic reviews.
2.1.k. "Opioid" means natural and
semi-synthetic derivatives of the opium poppy, as well as similar synthetic
compounds that have analgesic or pain-relieving
properties because of their effects in the central nervous system. These
include, but are not limited to, codeine, morphine, hydromorphone, hydrocodone,
oxycodone, methadone, and fentanyl.
2.1.l. "Pain-relieving controlled substance"
means, but is not limited to, an opioid or other drug classified as a Schedule
II through V controlled substance and recognized as effective for pain relief
and excludes any drug that has no accepted medical use in the United States or
lacks accepted safety for use in treatment under medical supervision including,
but not limited to, any drug classified as a Schedule I controlled
substance.
2.1.m. "Patient" means a
person presenting himself or herself for treatment who is not considered by the
practitioner as suffering from a terminal illness.
2.1.n. "Practitioner" means a registered
professional nurse licensed pursuant to the provisions of The Nurse Practice
Act W. Va. Code §
30-7-1 et seq. who possesses a
valid DEA registration identification.
2.1.o. "Provision" means prescribing or
administering.
2.1.p. "Terminal
illness" means an incurable or irreversible condition as diagnosed by the
attending physician or a qualified physician for which the administration of
life-prolonging intervention will serve only to prolong the dying
process.
Notes
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