Iowa Code 144D.1 – Definitions
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Advanced registered nurse practitioner” means an advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to chapter 152 or 152E.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 144D.1
- Advanced registered nurse practitioner: means an advanced registered nurse practitioner licensed pursuant to chapter 152 or 152E. See Iowa Code 144D.1
- Emergency medical care provider: means emergency medical care provider as defined in section 147A. See Iowa Code 144D.1
- Health care facility: means health care facility as defined in section 135C. 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
- 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
- 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
2. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
3. “Emergency medical care provider” means emergency medical care provider as defined in section 147A.1.
4. “Health care facility” means health care facility as defined in section 135C.1, a hospice program as defined in section 135J.1, an elder group home as defined in section 231B.1, and an assisted living program as defined in section 231C.2.
5. “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.
6. “Home health agency” means home health agency as defined in 42 C.F.R. pt. 484.
7. “Hospital” means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
8. “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.7, subsection 1, and guided by the express or implied intentions of the patient or, if such intentions are unknown, by the patient’s best interests given the patient’s overall medical condition and prognosis.
9. “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.
10. “Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic medicine and surgery in this state.
11. “Physician assistant” means a person licensed as a physician assistant under chapter 148C.
12. “Physician orders for scope of treatment form” or “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.