§ 23-76.5-101 — Definitions

Colorado § 23-76.5-101

• Jurisdiction: Colorado
• Title 23: Postsecondary Education
• Art.: Colorado Rural Health-care Workforce Initiative

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As used in this article 76.5, unless the context
otherwise requires:

(1) Health-care professional means a physician, physician assistant,
physical therapist, nurse, including nurse practitioner, pharmacist, dentist,
professional counselor, psychologist, social worker, or marriage and family
therapist who is registered, certified, or licensed pursuant to title 12 and who is
subject to credentialing. Health-care professional also includes a public health
professional who is not required to be registered, certified, or licensed pursuant to
state law.

(2) Health-care professionals rural track or rural track means a health-care professionals rural track or program established by an institution pursuant to
section 23-76.5-102.

(3) Initiative means the Colorado rural health-care workforce initiative
established in this article 76.5.

(4) Institution of higher education or institution means state institutions
as defined in section 23-18-102 (10)(a), local district colleges, and area technical
colleges.

(5) Preceptor means a health-care professional who is registered, certified,
or licensed, as appropriate, pursuant to title 12 who assumes the responsibility of
teaching, supervising, and evaluating a student seeking a degree in a health-care
profession discipline as part of the student's clinical training and education in a
rural or frontier county.

(6) Rural or frontier county means a county in Colorado designated by the
state office of rural health, known as the Colorado rural health center, as a rural or
frontier county.

(7) Rural program office means the office that administers the university of
Colorado's school of medicine's rural program at the health sciences center
campus.

Legislative History

Source: L. 2022: Entire article added, (SB 22-172), ch. 298, p. 2130, � 2, effective June 1.