Terms Used In Delaware Code > Title 16 > Chapter 30A - Training and Certification Requirements for Certain Nurse Assistants and Central Service Technicians

• Affirmed: In the practice of the appellate courts, the decree or order is declared valid and will stand as rendered in the lower court.
• Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
• Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
• Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
• Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
• Buildings: means a building equipped with heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) fire dampers, smoke dampers and/or smoke control system. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Central service technician: means an individual who decontaminates, inspects, assembles, packages, and sterilizes reusable medical instruments or devices for a health-care facility. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3010A
• Certified nursing assistant: means a duly-certified individual under the supervision of a licensed nurse, who provides care that does not require the judgment and skills of a licensed nurse. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3001A
• Child: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Department: means the Department of Health and Social Services. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3001A
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
• Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
• Fire damper: means a device installed in an air distribution system, designed to close automatically upon detection of heat, to interrupt migratory airflow and to restrict the passage of flame; and includes devices installed in air conditioning systems to close automatically upon detection of heat, to interrupt migratory airflow, and to restrict the passage of flames. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Fire life safety damper testing: means testing and inspection activities, including all physical, visual, and operational tests necessary to ensure the complete opening and closing of dampers and the proper functioning of fire dampers and smoke dampers as required by the International Fire Code (IFC), NFPA 80, NFPA 105, and applicable engineering specifications. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Fire life safety dampers: means all fire dampers, smoke dampers, and combination fire and smoke dampers. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Health-care facility: means a hospital or freestanding surgical center licensed pursuant to this title. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3010A
• Health-care practitioner: means an individual licensed to practice in the healing arts, pursuant to Title 24, acting within the scope of his or her license. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3010A
• Infant: means a person who has not reached the age of 18 years. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
• NFPA: means National Fire Protection Association. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Nursing assistant: means an individual who has completed the requisite training to become a certified nursing assistant but is awaiting certification. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 3001A
• Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
• Oath: includes affirmation in all cases where an affirmation may be substituted for an oath, and "sworn" includes affirmed; and the forms shall be varied accordingly. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Services or such persons as may be designated by the Secretary. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 101
• Smoke control system: means an engineered system that includes all methods that can be used singly or in combination to modify smoke movement, including engineered systems that use mechanical fans to produce pressure differences across smoke barriers to inhibit smoke movement. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Smoke damper: means a device within an air distribution system to control the movement of smoke, and includes devices installed in air conditioning systems to control the movement of smoke. See Delaware Code Title 16 Sec. 6601D
• Testify: Answer questions in court.
• Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
• Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
• United States: includes its territories and possessions and the District of Columbia. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302
• Year: means a calendar year, and is equivalent to the words "year of our Lord. See Delaware Code Title 1 Sec. 302