As used in this article 250, unless the context
otherwise requires:
(1) ACIP means the advisory committee on immunization practices to the
centers for disease control and prevention in the United States department of
health and human services or its successor entity.
(2) Administer means the direct application of a drug to the body of a
patient by injection, inhalation, ingestion, or any other method.
(3) Advisory committee means the naturopathic medicine advisory
committee created in section 12-250-104.
(4) Approved clinical training means clinical training in naturopathic
medicine in an inpatient or outpatient setting that has been approved by the
director. Approved clinical training may include components of allopathic
medicine in addition to naturopathic medicine.
(5) Approved naturopathic medical college means:
(a) A naturopathic medical education program in the United States or
Canada that grants the degree of doctor of naturopathic medicine or doctor of
naturopathy and that:
(I) Is approved by the director;
(II) Offers graduate-level, full-time didactic and supervised clinical training;
and
(III) Is accredited or has achieved candidacy status for accreditation by the
Council on Naturopathic Medical Education or an equivalent accrediting body for
naturopathic medical programs recognized by the United States department of
education; or
(b) Any other college or program approved by the director and accredited by
the Council on Naturopathic Medical Education or its successor entity.
(6) Continuing professional competency means the ongoing ability of a
naturopathic doctor to learn, integrate, and apply the knowledge, skill, and
judgment to practice as a naturopathic doctor according to generally accepted
standards and professional ethical standards.
(7) Dispense means the preparation, in a suitable container appropriately
labeled for subsequent administration to or use by a patient, of a medicine that a
naturopathic doctor is authorized under this article 250 to obtain.
(8) Homeopathic preparations means medicines prepared according to the
most current version of the Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia of the United
States/Revision Service.
(9) Minor office procedures means:
(a) The repair, care, and suturing of superficial lacerations and abrasions;
(b) The removal of foreign bodies located in superficial tissue, excluding the
ear or eye; and
(c) Obtaining and administering saline, sterile water, topical antiseptics, and
local anesthetics, including local anesthetics with epinephrine, in connection with a
procedure described in subsection (9)(a) or (9)(b) of this section.
(10) Natural health-care services or natural health care includes, but is
not limited to:
(a) Healing practices using food; food extracts; over-the-counter dietary
supplements, including vitamins, herbs, minerals, and enzymes; nutrients;
homeopathic remedies and preparations; the physical forces of heat, cold, water,
touch, sound, and light; and mind-body and energetic healing practices;
(b) Education, counseling, or advice regarding healing practices described in
subsection (10)(a) of this section and their effects on the structure and functions of
the human body; and
(c) Services or care as may be further defined by the director by rule.
(11) Naturopathic doctor or registrant means a person who is registered
by the director to practice naturopathic medicine pursuant to this article 250.
(12) Naturopathic formulary means the list of nonprescription classes of
medicines determined by the director that naturopathic doctors use in the practice
of naturopathic medicine. Naturopathic formulary includes any prescription
substance or device that is authorized under this article 250.
(13) (a) Naturopathic medicine, as performed by a naturopathic doctor,
means a system of health care for the prevention, diagnosis, evaluation, and
treatment of injuries, diseases, and conditions of the human body through the use
of education, nutrition, naturopathic preparations, natural medicines and other
therapies, and other modalities that are designed to support or supplement the
human body's own natural self-healing processes.
(b) Naturopathic medicine includes naturopathic physical medicine, which
consists of naturopathic manual therapy, the therapeutic use of the physical agents
of air, water, heat, cold, sound, light, touch, and electromagnetic nonionizing
radiation, and the physical modalities of electrotherapy, diathermy, ultraviolet light,
ultrasound, hydrotherapy, and exercise.