As used in this chapter, unless otherwise defined or the context otherwise requires:
1. "Department" means the Iowa department of public health.
2. "Medical director" means a licensed physician or surgeon who is a member of a hospital's or health care facility's active medical staff and who should be certified or eligible for certification by the American board of internal medicine or the American board of anesthesiology.
3. "Respiratory care" includes "respiratory therapy" or "inhalation therapy".
4. "Respiratory care practitioner" or "practitioner" means a person who qualifies as a respiratory therapist or respiratory therapy technician.
5. "Respiratory therapist" means a person who has successfully completed a respiratory therapy training program and has passed the registry examination for respiratory therapists administered by the national board for respiratory care or a respiratory therapy licensure examination approved by the department. Two years of supervised clinical experience in an acceptable location for the practice of respiratory care, as described in section 152B.4, may be substituted for the completion of a respiratory therapy training program.
6. "Respiratory therapy technician" means a person who has successfully completed a respiratory therapy training program and has passed the certification examination for respiratory therapy technicians administered by the national board for respiratory care or a respiratory therapy technicians' licensure examination approved by the department. Two years of supervised clinical experience in an acceptable location for the practice of respiratory care, as described in section 152B.4, may be substituted for the completion of a respiratory therapy training program.
7. "Respiratory therapy training program" means a program accredited by the American medical association's committee on allied health education and accreditation in cooperation with the joint review committee for respiratory therapy education and approved by the committee.
85 Acts, ch 151, § 1 ~ICS85, § 135F.1 ~I90 Acts, ch 1193, § 1 ~IC93, § 152B.1
See also § 135.1 for definitions applicable to chapter
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