048-25 Wyo. Code R. §§ 25-3 - Definitions
(a) The following
definitions apply to this Chapter:
(i)
"Advanced Practice Registered Nurse" or "APRN" means a person authorized by the
Wyoming State Board of Nursing to practice as an advanced practice registered
nurse pursuant to
W.S.
33-21-134(b).
(ii) "Central registry" means the registry
operated by the Wyoming Department of Family Services to index individuals who
have been substantiated for:
(A) Abuse or
neglect of children under W.S.
W.S.
14-3-213; or
(B) Abuse, neglect, exploitation, or
abandonment of vulnerable adults under W.S.
W.S.
35-20-115.
(iii) "Emergency medical condition" means a
condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity,
including severe pain, such that the absence of immediate medical attention
could reasonably be expected to result in: placing the health of the individual
or unborn child in serious jeopardy; serious impairment to bodily functions; or
serious dysfunction of bodily organs. All emergency medical conditions are
viewed as "life threatening emergency medical conditions" under
W.S.
35-2-901(a)(xxvi).
(iv) "Freestanding emergency center" or
"center" means a facility, that pursuant to
W.S.
35-2-901(a)(xxvi), "provides
services twenty-four (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week for life
threatening emergency medical conditions and is at a location separate from a
hospital."
(v) "Hospital" means an
institution licensed pursuant to
W.S.
35-2-902 and certified as a hospital or
critical access hospital by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services.
(vi) "Immediate jeopardy"
means a situation in which a center's noncompliance with one or more
requirements of these Rules has caused, or is likely to cause, serious injury,
harm, impairment, or death to a patient.
(vii) "License" means the authority granted
by the State Survey Agency to operate a freestanding emergency center pursuant
to
W.S.
35-2-902.
(viii) "Medical screening exam" means the
process required to reach, with reasonable clinical confidence, a determination
about whether an emergency medical condition does, or does not,
exist.
(ix) "Registered Nurse" or
"RN" means a person authorized by the Wyoming State Board of Nursing to
practice as a registered professional nurse pursuant to W.S.
W.S.
33-21-134(a).
(x) "Physician" means a person authorized by
the Wyoming Board of Medicine to practice medicine pursuant to
W.S.
33-26-301.
(xi) "Physician Assistant" or "PA" means a
person authorized by the Wyoming Board of Medicine to practice as a physician
assistant pursuant to W.S.
W.S.
33-26-504.
(xii) "Plan of correction" means a center's
plan to correct the deficiencies identified during a survey conducted by the
State Survey Agency.
(xiii)
"Practitioner" means a physician, Advanced Practice Registered Nurse, or
Physician Assistant, and does not include a Registered Nurse.
(xiv) "State Survey Agency" means the Wyoming
Department of Health, Aging Division, Healthcare Licensing and Surveys,
including its staff and designees.
(xv) "Survey" means an onsite or offsite
inspection conducted by the State Survey Agency to determine compliance with
these Rules. The term includes activities commonly referred to in the field as
surveys, revisits, complaint investigations, periodic surveys, and other
inspections deemed necessary by the State Survey Agency.
(xvi) "Triage" means the clinical assessment
of an individual's presenting signs and symptoms at the time of arrival, in
order to prioritize when the individual will be seen by a physician or other
qualified practitioner.
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