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TITLE 25HEALTH SERVICES
PART 1DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES
CHAPTER 139ABORTION FACILITY REPORTING AND LICENSING
SUBCHAPTER AGENERAL PROVISIONS
RULE §139.2Definitions

  (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.


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

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