Section 395.50  Definitions

            Act – the Nursing Home Care Act [210 ILCS 45].

            Approved evaluator – a registered nurse who has attended a Department-sponsored evaluator workshop, meets the Instructor Requirements in Section 395.160 of this Part, and has no fiduciary connection with the facility by which the candidate is employed or will be employed within 30 days of the evaluation.

            Approved manual skills – the following tasks demonstrated by a candidate:  washing hands, performing oral hygiene, hair care or nail care for a client, shaving a client's face, taking a client's oral temperature and pulse, measuring a client's respiration and blood pressure, making an occupied and unoccupied bed, feeding and dressing a client, making a final room check prior to client occupancy, measuring a client's weight and height, placing a client in a side-lying position, performing passive range of motion on a client, calculating a client's intake and output of fluids, transferring a client to a wheelchair using a safety belt, and giving a client a partial bath.

            Child Care/Habilitation Aide – any person who provides nursing, personal or rehabilitative care to residents of licensed Long-Term Care Facilities for Persons Under 22 Years of Age, regardless of title, and who is not otherwise licensed, certified or registered by the Department of Professional Regulation to render such care.  Child Care/Habilitation aides must function under the supervision of a licensed nurse.

            Competency test – a comprehensive multiple choice test meeting the requirements of 42 CFR 483, administered by the Department or a school, agency or similar institution under agreement with the Department.

            Clinical practice instruction – a teaching method used during the practical application of skill competencies (on-the-job training - OJT) in which the trainee explains and demonstrates skill competencies learned during the theory and OJT sections to an acceptable level in the presence of an OJT instructor.

            Curriculum Coordinator – In each Developmental Disabilities Aide Training Program, a qualified mental retardation professional who is responsible for planning, organization, management, coordination with training staff, compliance, documentation, and linkage with the Department and the Department of Mental Health and Developmental Disabilities.  The Curriculum Coordinator is not required to be an instructor.

            Department – the Illinois Department of Public Health.

            Developmental Disabilities (DD) Aide – any person who provides nursing, personal or habilitative care to residents of Intermediate Care Facilities for the Developmentally Disabled, regardless of title, and who is not otherwise licensed, certified or registered to render medical care. Other titles often used to refer to DD Aides include, but are not limited to, Program Aides, Program Technicians and Habilitation Aides.  DD Aides must function under the supervision of a licensed nurse or a Qualified Mental Retardation Professional (QMRP).

            Direct contact – the provision of any services to a client by an individual carrying out tasks usually done by nurse aides.

            Nurse – A registered nurse or a licensed practical nurse as defined in the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 65].  (Section 1-118 of the Act)

            Qualified Mental Retardation Professional – a person who has at least one year of experience working directly with individuals with developmental disabilities and meets at least one of the following additional qualifications:

            Be a physician as defined in this Section.

            Be a registered nurse as defined in this Section.

            Hold at least a bachelor's degree in one of the following fields:  occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, social work, speech or language pathology, recreation (or a recreation specialty area such as art, dance, music, or physical education), dietary services or dietetics, or a human services field (such as sociology, special education, or rehabilitation counseling).

            Physician – any person licensed to practice medicine in all its branches as provided by the Medical Practice Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 60].

            Registered nurse (RN) – a person with a valid license to practice as a registered professional nurse under the Illinois Nursing Act of 1987 [225 ILCS 65].

            Supervised laboratory – a teaching method utilized during the theory section of the program requiring the trainee to demonstrate skill competencies that were taught by the instructor as part of the theory section of the program.

            Train The Trainer Workshop/Program – a college based program, no less than 30 clock hours, designed to prepare a registered nurse to teach certified nurse aide (CNA) students.  The course includes learning principles, teaching methods, curriculum development and instructional techniques; or the Department sponsored program held prior to October 1991.

(Source:  Added at 20 Ill. Reg. 10085, effective July 15, 1996)