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.

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W. Va. Code R. § 19-14-2

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