Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 58 > Chapter 2 > Part 8 - Uniform Emergency Volunteer Health Practitioners Act of 2007

• Agency: means the Tennessee emergency management agency (TEMA). See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Compacts: means the emergency management compacts included in parts 4 and 7 of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
• Credentialing: means obtaining, verifying, and assessing the qualifications of a health practitioner to provide treatment, care or services in or for a health facility. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
• Department: means the department of health. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Disaster: means any natural, technological, or civil emergency that causes damage of sufficient severity and magnitude to result in a declaration of a state emergency by a county, the governor, or the president of the United States. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Disaster relief organization: means an entity that provides emergency or disaster relief services that include health services provided by volunteer health practitioners and that:
  (A) Is designated or recognized as a provider of those services pursuant to a disaster response and recovery plan adopted by an agency of the federal government, the department or TEMA. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Emergency: means an occurrence, or threat thereof, whether natural, technological, or manmade, in war or in peace, that results or may result in substantial injury or harm to the population, or substantial damage to or loss of property. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Emergency management: means the preparation for, the mitigation of, the response to, and the recovery from emergencies and disasters. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Entity: means a person other than an individual. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Health practitioner: means an individual licensed under any chapter of titles 62, 63 or 68, or their counterparts in another state, to provide health services. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Health services: means :
  (A) The provision of treatment, care, advice or guidance, other services, or supplies related to the health or death of individuals or human populations, to the extent necessary to respond to an emergency, including:

  (i) The following, concerning the physical or mental condition or functional status of an individual or affecting the structure or function of the body:

  (a) Preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance, or palliative care. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Host entity: means an entity operating in this state that uses volunteer health practitioners to respond to an emergency. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• 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.
• License: includes authorization under the laws of this state to an individual to provide health services based upon a national certification issued by a public or private entity. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
• Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Political subdivision: means any municipality or county, including any county having metropolitan form of government, created pursuant to law. See Tennessee Code 58-2-101
• Privileging: means the authorizing by an appropriate authority, such as a governing body, of a health practitioner to provide specific treatment, care, or services at a health facility subject to limits based on factors that include license, education, training, experience, competence, health status, and specialized skill. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Scope of practice: means the extent of the authorization to provide health services granted to a health practitioner by a license issued to the practitioner in the state in which the principal part of the practitioner's services are rendered, including any conditions imposed by the licensing authority. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• TEMA: means the Tennessee emergency management agency. See Tennessee Code 58-2-802
• Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
• United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105