Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 144D - Physician Orders for Scope of Treatment

• Advanced registered nurse practitioner: means an advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to chapter 152 or 152E. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Department: means the department of inspections, appeals, and licensing. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Department: means the department of health and human services. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Emergency medical care provider: means emergency medical care provider as defined in section 147A. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Health care facility: means health care facility as defined in section 135C. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Health care provider: means an individual, including an emergency medical care provider and an individual providing home and community-based services, and including a home health agency, licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the practice of a profession. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Home health agency: means home health agency as defined in 42 C. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Hospital: means hospital as defined in section 135B. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Internet: means the federated international system that is composed of allied electronic communication networks linked by telecommunication channels, that uses standardized protocols, and that facilitates electronic communication services, including but not limited to use of the world wide web; the transmission of electronic mail or messages; the transfer of files and data or other electronic information; and the transmission of voice, image, and video. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Legal representative: means an individual authorized to execute a POST form on behalf of a patient who is not competent to do so, in the order of priority set out in section 144A. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Patient: means an individual who is frail and elderly or who has a chronic, critical medical condition or a terminal illness and for which a physician orders for scope of treatment form is consistent with the individual's goals of care. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Physician: means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Physician assistant: means a person licensed as a physician assistant under chapter 148C. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• POST form: means a document containing medical orders which may be relied upon across medical settings that consolidates and summarizes a patient's preferences for life-sustaining treatments and interventions and acts as a complement to and does not supersede any valid advance directive. See Iowa Code 144D.1
• Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3