Part 1 General Provisions 58-31b-101 – 58-31b-103
Part 2 Board 58-31b-201
Part 3 Licensing 58-31b-301 – 58-31b-309
Part 4 License Denial and Discipline 58-31b-401
Part 5 Unlawful and Unprofessional Conduct – Penalties 58-31b-501 – 58-31b-503
Part 6 Nursing Education Programs 58-31b-601
Part 7 Immunity Provisions 58-31b-701 – 58-31b-703
Part 8 Practice Standards 58-31b-801 – 58-31b-803

Terms Used In Utah Code > Title 58 > Chapter 31b - Nurse Practice Act

  • Adjudicative proceeding: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Administrative penalty: means a monetary fine or citation imposed by the division for acts or omissions determined to be unprofessional or unlawful conduct in accordance with a fine schedule established by division rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, and as a result of an adjudicative proceeding conducted in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 4, Administrative Procedures Act. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Administrator: includes "executor" when the subject matter justifies the use. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Applicant: means an individual who applies for licensure or certification under this chapter by submitting a completed application for licensure or certification and the required fees to the department. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Approved education program: means a nursing education program that is accredited by an accrediting body for nursing education that is approved by the United States Department of Education. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Board: means the Board of Nursing created in Section 58-31b-201. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Carrier: means an infected individual or animal who harbors a specific infectious agent in the absence of discernible clinical disease and serves as a potential source of infection for man. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
  • Communicable disease: means illness due to a specific infectious agent or its toxic products which arises through transmission of that agent or its products from a reservoir to a susceptible host, either directly, as from an infected individual or animal, or indirectly, through an intermediate plant or animal host, vector, or the inanimate environment. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
  • Contact: means an individual or animal having had association with an infected individual, animal, or contaminated environment so as to have had an opportunity to acquire the infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Diagnosis: means the identification of and discrimination between physical and psychosocial signs and symptoms essential to the effective execution and management of health care. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Epidemic: means the occurrence or outbreak in a community or region of cases of an illness clearly in excess of normal expectancy and derived from a common or propagated source. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • 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.
  • Incubation period: means the time interval between exposure to an infectious agent and appearance of the first sign or symptom of the disease in question. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Infected individual: means an individual who harbors an infectious agent and who has manifest disease or inapparent infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Infection: means the entry and development or multiplication of an infectious agent in the body of man or animals. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Infectious agent: means an organism such as a virus, rickettsia, bacteria, fungus, protozoan, or helminth that is capable of producing infection or infectious disease. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Infectious disease: means a disease of man or animals resulting from an infection. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Intellectual disability: means a significant, subaverage general intellectual functioning that:Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Intermediate care facility for people with an intellectual disability: means an intermediate care facility for the mentally retarded, as defined in Title XIX of the Social Security Act. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Joint resolution: A legislative measure which requires the approval of both chambers.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Licensee: means an individual who is licensed or certified under this chapter. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Local health department: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26A-1-102. See Utah Code 26B-1-102
  • Long-term care facility: means any of the following facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to 2:
    (a) a nursing care facility;
    (b) a small health care facility;
    (c) an intermediate care facility for people with an intellectual disability;
    (d) an assisted living facility Type I or II; or
    (e) a designated swing bed unit in a general hospital. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Medication aide certified: means a certified nurse aide who:
    (a) has a minimum of 2,000 hours experience working as a certified nurse aide;
    (b) has received a minimum of 60 hours of classroom and 40 hours of practical training that is approved by the division in collaboration with the board, in administering routine medications to patients or residents of long-term care facilities; and
    (c) is certified by the division as a medication aide certified. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Nolo contendere: No contest-has the same effect as a plea of guilty, as far as the criminal sentence is concerned, but may not be considered as an admission of guilt for any other purpose.
  • Order of constraint: means the same as that term is defined in Section 26B-7-301. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Person: means :Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Plea: In a criminal case, the defendant's statement pleading "guilty" or "not guilty" in answer to the charges, a declaration made in open court.
  • Practice of nursing: includes :
    (a) initiating and maintaining comfort measures;
    (b) promoting and supporting human functions and responses;
    (c) establishing an environment conducive to well-being;
    (d) providing health counseling and teaching;
    (e) collaborating with health care professionals on aspects of the health care regimen;
    (f) performing delegated procedures only within the education, knowledge, judgment, and skill of the licensee;
    (g) delegating nursing tasks that may be performed by others, including an unlicensed assistive personnel; and
    (h) supervising an individual to whom a task is delegated under Subsection (12)(g) as the individual performs the task. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Practice of registered nursing: means performing acts of nursing as provided in this Subsection (14) by an individual licensed under this chapter as a registered nurse within the generally recognized scope of practice of registered nurses as defined by division rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probation: A sentencing alternative to imprisonment in which the court releases convicted defendants under supervision as long as certain conditions are observed.
  • Process: means a writ or summons issued in the course of a judicial proceeding. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Registered nurse apprentice: means an individual licensed under Subsection 58-31b-301(2)(b) who is learning and engaging in the practice of registered nursing under the indirect supervision of an individual licensed under:
    (a) Subsection 58-31b-301(2)(c), (e), or (f);
    (b) Chapter 67, Utah Medical Practice Act; or
    (c) Chapter 68, Utah Osteopathic Medical Practice Act. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • School: means a public, private, or parochial nursery school, licensed or unlicensed day care center, child care facility, family care home, Head Start program, kindergarten, elementary, or secondary school through grade 12. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
  • Sexually transmitted disease: means those diseases transmitted through sexual intercourse or any other sexual contact. See Utah Code 26B-7-201
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • United States: includes each state, district, and territory of the United States of America. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
  • Unlawful conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-31b-501. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Unlicensed assistive personnel: means any unlicensed individual, regardless of title, who is delegated a task by a licensed nurse as permitted by division rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act, and the standards of the profession. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Unprofessional conduct: means the same as that term is defined in Sections 58-1-501 and 58-31b-502 and as may be further defined by division rule made in accordance with Title 63G, Chapter 3, Utah Administrative Rulemaking Act. See Utah Code 58-31b-102
  • Writing: includes :Utah Code 68-3-12.5