Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 77 - Direct-Entry Midwife Act

• Account: means a demand deposit account, checking or negotiable withdrawal order account, savings account, time deposit account, or money-market mutual fund account. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Assistance: means public assistance. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Child: means the same as that term is defined in Section 81-6-101. See Utah Code 26B-9-101 v2
• Child support: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-9-301. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Client: means a woman and her fetus or newborn baby under the care of a direct-entry midwife. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
• Decedent: A deceased person.
• Department: means the Department of Commerce. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• Direct-entry midwife: means an individual who is engaging in the practice of direct-entry midwifery. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Director: means the director of the Office of Recovery Services. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Division: means the Division of Professional Licensing created in Section 58-1-103. See Utah Code 58-1-102
• 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.
• Executive director: means the executive director of the department appointed under Section 26B-1-203. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
• Financial institution: means :
       (8)(a) a depository institution as defined in Section 7-1-103 or the Federal Deposit Insurance Act, Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
• Income: includes :
            (10)(b)(i) all gain derived from capital assets, labor, or both, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital assets;
            (10)(b)(ii) interest and dividends;
            (10)(b)(iii) periodic payments made under pension or retirement programs or insurance policies of any type;
            (10)(b)(iv) unemployment compensation benefits;
            (10)(b)(v) workers' compensation benefits; and
            (10)(b)(vi) disability benefits. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
• Licensed direct-entry midwife: means a person licensed under this chapter. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
• Low risk: means a labor and delivery and postpartum, newborn, and interconceptual care that does not include a condition that requires a mandatory transfer under administrative rules adopted by the division. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Mother: means a parent who is of the female sex. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Obligee: means an individual, this state, another state, or other comparable jurisdiction to whom a debt is owed or who is entitled to reimbursement of child support or public assistance. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Obligor: means a person, firm, corporation, or the estate of a decedent owing money to this state, to an individual, to another state, or other comparable jurisdiction in whose behalf this state is acting. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Office: means the Office of Recovery Services. See Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Person: means :
       (24)(a) an individual;
       (24)(b) an association;
       (24)(c) an institution;
       (24)(d) a corporation;
       (24)(e) a company;
       (24)(f) a trust;
       (24)(g) a limited liability company;
       (24)(h) a partnership;
       (24)(i) a political subdivision;
       (24)(j) a government office, department, division, bureau, or other body of government; and
       (24)(k) any other organization or entity. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Personal property: All property that is not real property.
• Personal property: includes :
       (25)(a) money;
       (25)(b) goods;
       (25)(c) chattels;
       (25)(d) effects;
       (25)(e) evidences of a right in action;
       (25)(f) a written instrument by which a pecuniary obligation, right, or title to property is created, acknowledged, transferred, increased, defeated, discharged, or diminished; and
       (25)(g) a right or interest in an item described in Subsections (25)(a) through (f). See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Physician: means an individual licensed as a physician and surgeon, osteopathic physician, or naturopathic physician. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Practice of direct-entry midwifery: means the practice of providing the necessary supervision, care, and advice to a client during essentially normal pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum, and newborn periods that is consistent with national professional midwifery standards and that is based upon the acquisition of clinical skills necessary for the care of a pregnant woman and a newborn baby, including antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn, and limited interconceptual care, and includes:
       (7)(a) obtaining an informed consent to provide services;
       (7)(b) obtaining a health history, including a physical examination;
       (7)(c) developing a plan of care for a client;
       (7)(d) evaluating the results of client care;
       (7)(e) consulting and collaborating with and referring and transferring care to licensed health care professionals, as is appropriate, regarding the care of a client;
       (7)(f) obtaining medications, as specified in this Subsection (7)(f), to administer to a client, including:

            (7)(f)(i) prescription vitamins;

            (7)(f)(ii) Rho D immunoglobulin;

            (7)(f)(iii) sterile water;

            (7)(f)(iv) one dose of intramuscular oxytocin after the delivery of a baby to minimize a client's blood loss;

            (7)(f)(v) an additional single dose of oxytocin if a hemorrhage occurs, in which case the licensed direct-entry midwife must initiate transfer if a client's condition does not immediately improve;

            (7)(f)(vi) oxygen;

            (7)(f)(vii) local anesthetics without epinephrine used in accordance with Subsection (7)(l);

            (7)(f)(viii) vitamin K to prevent hemorrhagic disease of a newborn baby;

            (7)(f)(ix) as required by law, eye prophylaxis to prevent opthalmia neonatorum; and

            (7)(f)(x) any other medication approved by a licensed health care provider with authority to prescribe that medication;
       (7)(g) obtaining food, food extracts, dietary supplements, as defined by the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, homeopathic remedies, plant substances that are not designated as prescription drugs or controlled substances, and over-the-counter medications to administer to clients;
       (7)(h) obtaining and using appropriate equipment and devices such as a Doppler, a blood pressure cuff, phlebotomy supplies, instruments, and sutures;
       (7)(i) obtaining appropriate screening and testing, including laboratory tests, urinalysis, and ultrasound scans;
       (7)(j) managing the antepartum period;
       (7)(k) managing the intrapartum period, including:

            (7)(k)(i) monitoring and evaluating the condition of a mother and a fetus;

            (7)(k)(ii) performing an emergency episiotomy; and

            (7)(k)(iii) delivering a baby in any out-of-hospital setting;
       (7)(l) managing the postpartum period, including the suturing of an episiotomy and the suturing of first and second degree natural perineal and labial lacerations, including the administration of a local anesthetic;
       (7)(m) managing the newborn period, including:

            (7)(m)(i) providing care for a newborn baby, including performing a normal newborn baby examination; and

            (7)(m)(ii) resuscitating a newborn baby;
       (7)(n) providing limited interconceptual services in order to provide continuity of care, including:

            (7)(n)(i) breastfeeding support and counseling;

            (7)(n)(ii) family planning, limited to natural family planning, cervical caps, and diaphragms; and

            (7)(n)(iii) pap smears, where each client with an abnormal result is to be referred to an appropriate licensed health care provider; and
       (7)(o) executing the orders of a licensed health care professional, if the orders are within the education, knowledge, and skill of the direct-entry midwife. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Probate: Proving a will
• Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
• Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Property: includes both real and personal property. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Public assistance: means :
       (18)(a) services or benefits provided under Title 35A, Chapter 3, Employment Support Act;
       (18)(b) medical assistance provided under Chapter 3, Part 1, Health Care Assistance;
       (18)(c) foster care maintenance payments under Part E of Title IV of the Social Security Act, Utah Code 26B-9-101
• Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
• real property: includes :
       (31)(a) land;
       (31)(b) a tenement;
       (31)(c) a hereditament;
       (31)(d) a water right;
       (31)(e) a possessory right; and
       (31)(f) a claim. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
• Signature: includes a name, mark, or sign written with the intent to authenticate an instrument or writing. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
• Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
• Unlawful conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-77-501. See Utah Code 58-77-102
• Woman: means an adult human female. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5