135H.1 - DEFINITIONS.
135H.1 DEFINITIONS.
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Department" means the department of inspections and
appeals.
2. "Direction" means authoritative policy or procedural
guidance for the accomplishment of a function or an activity.
3. "Licensee" means the holder of a license issued to operate
a psychiatric medical institution for children.
4. "Medical care plan" means a plan of care and services
designed to eliminate the need for inpatient care by improving the
condition of a child. Services must be based upon a diagnostic
evaluation, which includes an examination of the medical,
psychological, social, behavioral, and developmental aspects of the
child's situation, reflecting the need for inpatient care.
5. "Mental health professional" means an individual who has
all of the following qualifications:
a. The individual holds at least a master's degree in a
mental health field, including but not limited to, psychology,
counseling and guidance, nursing, and social work, or the individual
is a physician.
b. The individual holds a current Iowa license if practicing
in a field covered by an Iowa licensure law.
c. The individual has at least two years of post-degree
clinical experience, supervised by another mental health
professional, in assessing mental health needs and problems and in
providing appropriate mental health services.
6. "Nursing care" means services which are provided under the
direction of a physician or registered nurse.
7. "Physician" means a person licensed under chapter 148.
8. "Psychiatric medical institution for children" or
"psychiatric institution" means an institution providing more
than twenty-four hours of continuous care involving long-term
psychiatric services to three or more children in residence for
expected periods of fourteen or more days for diagnosis and
evaluation or for expected periods of ninety days or more for
treatment.
9. "Psychiatric services" means services provided under the
direction of a physician which address mental, emotional, medical, or
behavioral problems.
10. "Rehabilitative services" means services to encourage and
assist restoration of a resident's optimum mental and physical
capabilities.
11. "Resident" means a person who is less than twenty-one
years of age and has been admitted by a physician to a psychiatric
medical institution for children.
12. "Supervision" means direct oversight and inspection of
the act of accomplishing a function or activity. Section History: Recent Form
89 Acts, ch 283, § 2; 94 Acts, ch 1120, §14, 15; 2008 Acts, ch
1088, §90
Referred to in § 249A.30A