Terms Used In Iowa Code > Chapter 135G - Subacute Mental Health Care Facilities

• Advanced registered nurse practitioner: means a person currently licensed as a registered nurse under chapter 152 or 152E who is licensed by the board of nursing as an advanced registered nurse practitioner. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Board: means the board of hearing aid specialists. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
• Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
• Department: means the department of inspections and appeals. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Direction: means authoritative policy or procedural guidance for the accomplishment of a function or an activity. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
• 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.
• following: when used by way of reference to a chapter or other part of a statute mean the next preceding or next following chapter or other part. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
• License: means a license issued by the state under this chapter to a hearing aid specialist. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• Licensee: means the holder of a license issued to operate a subacute care facility for persons with serious and persistent mental illness. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Mental health professional: means the same as defined in section 228. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Mental health services: means services provided by a mental health professional operating within the scope of the professional's practice which address mental, emotional, medical, or behavioral problems. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
• Person: means a natural person. See Iowa Code 154A.1
• persons with mental illness: include persons with psychosis, persons who are severely depressed, and persons with any type of mental disease or mental disorder, except that mental illness does not refer to intellectual disability, or to insanity, diminished responsibility, or mental incompetency as defined and used in the Iowa criminal code or in the rules of criminal procedure, Iowa court rules. See Iowa Code 4.1
• Physician: means a person licensed under chapter 148. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Physician assistant: means a person licensed to practice under the supervision of a physician as authorized in chapters 147 and 148C. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Rehabilitative services: means services to encourage and assist restoration of a resident's optimum mental and physical capabilities. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Resident: means a person who is eighteen years of age or older and has been determined by a mental health professional to need subacute mental health services. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
• State: means a state, territory, or possession of the United States, the District of Columbia, or the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. See Iowa Code 152E.3
• subacute care facility: means an institution, place, building, or agency with restricted means of egress providing subacute mental health services for a period exceeding twenty-four consecutive hours to persons in need of the services. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Subacute mental health services: means the same as defined in section 225C. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
• Supervision: means direct oversight and inspection of the act of accomplishing a function or activity. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
• Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
• Treatment care plan: means a plan of care and services designed to eliminate the need for acute care by improving the condition of a person with serious and persistent mental illness. See Iowa Code 135G.1
• year: means twelve consecutive months. See Iowa Code 4.1