(47) Pre-inspection conference--A conference held with
HHSC staff and the applicant or his or her representative to review
licensure standards, inspection documents, and provide consultation
prior to the on-site licensure inspection.
(48) Professional personnel--Patient care personnel
of the facility currently licensed or certified under the laws of
this state to use a title and provide the type of service for which
the patient care personnel are licensed or certified.
(49) Quality assurance--An ongoing, objective, and
systematic process of monitoring, evaluating, and improving the appropriateness,
and effectiveness of care.
(50) Quality improvement--An organized, structured
process that selectively identifies improvement projects to achieve
improvements in products or services.
(51) Registered nurse (RN)--A person who is currently
licensed by the Texas Board of Nursing as a registered nurse.
(52) Semicritical items--Items that come in contact
with nonintact skin or mucous membranes. Semicritical items may include
respiratory therapy equipment, anesthesia equipment, bronchoscopes,
and thermometers.
(53) Standards--Minimum requirements under the Act
and this chapter.
(54) Sterile field--The operative area of the body
and anything that directly contacts this area.
(55) Sterilization--The use of a physical or chemical
procedure to destroy all microbial life, including bacterial endospores.
(56) Supervision--Authoritative procedural guidance
by a qualified person for the accomplishment of a function or activity
that includes initial direction and periodic inspection of the actual
act of accomplishing the function or activity.
(57) Surgical abortion--The use of instruments, aspiration,
and/or suction to induce an abortion, with the purpose of terminating
the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant.
(58) Third trimester certification form--The document
prepared by HHSC and used by physicians to certify the medical indications
supporting the judgment for the abortion of a viable fetus during
the third trimester of pregnancy.
(59) Third trimester--A gestational period of not less
than 26 weeks (following last-menstrual period (LMP)).
(60) Unemancipated minor--A minor who is unmarried
and has not had the disabilities of minority removed under Family
Code Chapter 31.
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Source Note: The provisions of this §139.2 adopted to be effective June 28, 2009, 34 TexReg 4125; amended to be effective January 1, 2014, 38 TexReg 9577; amended to be effective May 31, 2018, 43 TexReg 3361; amended to be effective November 24, 2022, 47 TexReg 7696 |