Terms Used In West Virginia Code > Chapter 16 > Article 5O - Medication Administration by Unlicensed Personnel

• Administration of medication: means :

  (1) Assisting a person in the ingestion, application or inhalation of medications, including prescription drugs, or in the use of universal precautions or rectal or vaginal insertion of medication, according to the legibly written or printed directions of the attending physician or the health care professional in accordance with subdivision sixty-one, section four, article five, chapter . See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2

• Authorized registered professional nurse: means a person who holds an unencumbered license pursuant to article seven, chapter thirty, and meets the requirements to train and supervise approved medication assistive personnel pursuant to this article, and has completed and passed the facility trainer/instructor course developed by the authorizing agency. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Authorizing agency: means the Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification

  (f) "Delegation" means transferring to a competent individual, as determined by the authorized registered professional nurse, the authority to perform a selected task in a selected situation. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2

• board: means a board of health serving one or more counties or one or more municipalities or a combination thereof. See West Virginia Code 16-1-2
• Delegation decision model: means the process the authorized registered professional nurse must follow to determine whether or not to delegate a nursing task to an approved medication assistive personnel. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Department: means the Department of Health and Human Resources. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Facility: means an intermediate care facility for individuals with an intellectual disability, assisted living, behavioral health group home, private residence in which health care services and health maintenance tasks are provided under the supervision of a registered professional nurse as defined in article seven, chapter . See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Facility staff member: means an individual employed by a facility but does not include a health care professional acting within his or her scope of practice. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Family: means biological parents, adoptive parents, foster parents, or other immediate family members living within the same household. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• 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.
• Health care professional: means a medical doctor or doctor of osteopathy, a podiatrist, registered professional nurse, practical nurse, advanced practice registered nurse, physician'. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Health maintenance tasks: means performing the following tasks according to the legibly written or printed directions of a health care professional or as written on the prescription label, and making a written record of that assistance with regard to each health maintenance task administered, including the time, route and amount taken:

  (1) Administering glucometer tests. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2

• Judgment: includes decrees and orders for the payment of money, or the conveyance or delivery of land or personal property, or some interest therein, or any undertaking, bond or recognizance which has the legal effect of a judgment. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10
• Medication: means a drug, as defined in section one hundred one, article one, chapter . See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Natural supports: means family, friends, neighbors or anyone who provides assistance and support to a resident but is not reimbursed. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
• Registered professional nurse: means a person who holds a valid license pursuant to article seven, chapter . See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Resident: means a resident of a facility who for purposes of this article, is in a stable condition. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Secretary: means the Secretary of the department or his or her designee. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Self-administration of medication: means the act of a resident, who is independently capable of reading and understanding the labels of drugs ordered by an authorized practitioner, in opening and accessing prepackaged drug containers, accurately identifying and taking the correct dosage of the drugs as ordered by the health care professional, at the correct time and under the correct circumstances. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• Stable: means the individual'. See West Virginia Code 16-5O-2
• State: when applied to a part of the United States and not restricted by the context, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories, and the words "United States" also include the said district and territories. See West Virginia Code 2-2-10