Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes > Chapter 461J - Physical Therapy Practice Act

• Birth defect: means an abnormality of structure, function, or body metabolism present at birth that adversely affects a child's health and development, results in a physical or mental disability, or is fatal. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-421
• Board: means the board of physical therapy. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• Case management services: means services that assist medically fragile children under the medicaid state plan in gaining access to needed medical, social, educational, and other services. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
• CBRNE event: means the use of chemicals, biological agents, radioactive materials, nuclear devices, or explosives to kill or sicken people, animals, or plants. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-441
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• county: includes the city and county of Honolulu. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 1-22
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-411
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-441
• Department: means the department of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471
• Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-411
• Director: means the director of health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-441
• Director: means the director of health or the director's designated representative. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• Domestic violence: means physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the threat of imminent physical harm, bodily injury, or assault, extreme psychological abuse or malicious property damage between family or household members. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471
• Domestic violence fatality review information: means information regarding a victim, including but not limited to:

  (1) Social, medical, and legal history;

  (2) Death and birth certificates;

  (3) Law enforcement investigative information and data;

  (4) Medical examiner or coroner investigative information and data;

  (5) Parole and probation information and records;

  (6) Information and records of social services agencies;

  (7) Educational records; and

  (8) Health care institution information. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471

• Domestic violence fatality review team: means those individuals appointed by the director to review domestic violence fatalities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471
• Educational institution: means public schools as defined under chapter 302A, privately operated schools of lower education, and colleges, the University of Hawaii, and other universities. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• Emergency response stockpile: means a strategic supply of drugs, vaccines and other biological products, medical devices, and related supplies maintained by the department to protect or treat the population of the State in the event of a CBRNE event. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-441
• 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.
• Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
• Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
• Institutional review board: means an institutional review board established in accordance with 7 Code of Federal Regulations 1c. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-421
• 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.
• Medically fragile children: means children under the age of twenty-one with complex medical conditions that may or may not require technological interventions, including but not limited to ventilator care, tracheostomy care, catheterizations, parenteral nutrition, complex enteral feeding, and complex wound care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-431
• Physical therapist: means a person who is licensed to practice physical therapy in this State. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• Physical therapist assistant: means a person who is licensed as a physical therapist assistant in the State and assists the physical therapist in selected components of treatment or intervention. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• physical therapy services: means the examination, treatment, and instruction of human beings to detect, assess, prevent, correct, alleviate, and limit physical disability, bodily malfunction, pain from injury, disease, and any other physical or mental condition as performed by a physical therapist appropriately licensed under this chapter. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• Practice of physical therapy: includes , but is not limited to, the use of the following:

  (1) Physical agents, such as heat, cold, water, air, sound, compression, light, electricity, and electromagnetic radiation;

  (2) Exercise with or without devices, joint mobilization, mechanical stimulation; biofeedback; postural drainage; traction; positioning, massage, splinting, training in locomotion, and other functional activities with or without assisting devices; and correction of posture, body mechanics, and gait;

  (3) Tests and measurements of: muscle strength, force, endurance, and tone; joint motion, mobility, and stability; reflexes and automatic reaction; movement skill and accuracy; sensation and perception; peripheral nerve integrity; locomotor skill, stability, and endurance; activities of daily living; cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular functions; the fit, function, and comfort of prosthetic, orthotic, and other assisting devices; posture and body mechanics; limb strength, circumference, and volume; thoracic excursion and breathing patterns; vital signs; nature and locus of pain and conditions under which pain varies; photosensitivity; and the home and work physical environments. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1

• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Publicly owned building: means any building or structure, including a hospital or a school, that is owned, leased, or operated by the State; provided that it shall be a building or structure in which individuals employed by the State work during normal operations. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-411
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Unit: is a relative value assigned to continuing competence activities in which one continuing competence unit is equivalent to at least fifty minutes of classroom or hands-on instruction. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 461J-1
• Victim: means an adult whose death is suspected of having been caused by domestic violence or domestic violence-related suicide. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 321-471