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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Advanced registered nurse practitioner” means an advanced registered nurse
practitioner licensed pursuant to chapter 152 or 152E.
2.“Department” means the department of health and human services.
3.“Emergencymedicalcareprovider” means emergency medical care provider as defined
in section 147A.1.
4.“Health care facility” means health care facility as defined in section 135C.1, a hospice
program as defined in section 135J.1, an elder group home as defined in section 231B.1, and
an assisted living program as defined in section 231C.2.
5.“Health care provider” means an individual, including an emergency medical care
provider and an individual providing home and community-based services, and including a
home health agency,
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Advanced registered nurse practitioner” means an advanced registered nurse
practitioner licensed pursuant to chapter 152 or 152E.
2. “Department” means the department of health and human services.
3. “Emergencymedicalcareprovider” means emergency medical care provider as defined
in section 147A.1.
4. “Health care facility” means health care facility as defined in section 135C.1, a hospice
program as defined in section 135J.1, an elder group home as defined in section 231B.1, and
an assisted living program as defined in section 231C.2.
5. “Health care provider” means an individual, including an emergency medical care
provider and an individual providing home and community-based services, and including a
home health agency, licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by the law of
this state to administer health care in the ordinary course of business or in the practice of a
profession.
6. “Home health agency” means home health agency as defined in 42 C.F.R. pt. 484.
7. “Hospital” means hospital as defined in section 135B.1.
8. “Legal representative” means an individual authorized to execute a POST form on
behalf of a patient who is not competent to do so, in the order of priority set out in section
144A.7, subsection 1, and guided by the express or implied intentions of the patient or,
if such intentions are unknown, by the patient’s best interests given the patient’s overall
medical condition and prognosis.
9. “Patient” means an individual who is frail and elderly or who has a chronic, critical
medicalconditionoraterminalillnessandforwhichaphysicianordersforscopeoftreatment
form is consistent with the individual’s goals of care.
10. “Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic
medicine and surgery in this state.
11. “Physician assistant” means a person licensed as a physician assistant under chapter
148C.
12. “Physician orders for scope of treatment form” or “POST form” means a document
containingmedicalorderswhichmayberelieduponacrossmedicalsettingsthatconsolidates
and summarizes a patient’s preferences for life-sustaining treatments and interventions and
acts as a complement to and does not supersede any valid advance directive.