As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1.“Board” means the board of behavioral health professionals created under chapter 147.
2.“Collaborative practice agreement” means a written agreement between a prescribing
psychologist and a licensed physician that establishes clinical protocols, practice guidelines,
and care plans relevant to the scope of the collaborative practice. The practice guidelines
may include limitations on the prescribing of psychotropic medications by psychologists
and protocols for prescribing to special populations, including patients who are less than
seventeen years of age or over sixty-five years of age, patients who are pregnant, patients
with serious medical conditions including but not limited to heart disease, cancer, stroke, or
seizure
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As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Board” means the board of behavioral health professionals created under chapter 147.
2. “Collaborative practice agreement” means a written agreement between a prescribing
psychologist and a licensed physician that establishes clinical protocols, practice guidelines,
and care plans relevant to the scope of the collaborative practice. The practice guidelines
may include limitations on the prescribing of psychotropic medications by psychologists
and protocols for prescribing to special populations, including patients who are less than
seventeen years of age or over sixty-five years of age, patients who are pregnant, patients
with serious medical conditions including but not limited to heart disease, cancer, stroke, or
seizures, and patients with developmental disabilities and intellectual disabilities.
3. “Collaborative relationship” means a cooperative working relationship between a
prescribing psychologist or a psychologist with a conditional prescription certificate and
a primary care provider as defined in section 280A.1 who oversees the patient’s general
medical care, including diagnosis and cooperation in the management and delivery of
physical and mental health care.
4. “Conditional prescription certificate” means a document issued by the board to a
licensed psychologist that permits the holder to prescribe psychotropic medication under
the supervision of a licensed physician pursuant to this chapter.
5. “Physician” means a person licensed to practice medicine and surgery or osteopathic
medicine and surgery in this state in family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics,
psychiatry, or another specialty who prescribes medications for the treatment of a mental
disorder to patients in the normal course of the person’s clinical medical practice pursuant to
jointrulesadoptedbytheboardofbehavioralhealthprofessionalsandtheboardofmedicine.
6. “Practice of psychology” means the application of established principles of learning,
motivation, perception, thinking, and emotional relations to problems of behavior
adjustment, group relations, and behavior modification, by persons trained in psychology
for compensation or other personal gain. The application of principles includes but is
not limited to counseling and the use of psychological remedial measures with persons,
in groups or individually, with adjustment or emotional problems in the areas of work,
family, school, and personal relationships; measuring and testing personality, intelligence,
aptitudes, public opinion, attitudes, and skills; and the teaching of such subject matter, and
the conducting of research on the problems relating to human behavior.
7. “Prescribingpsychologist”meansalicensedpsychologistwhoholdsavalidprescription
certificate.
8. “Prescription certificate” means a document issued by the board to a licensed
psychologist that permits the holder to prescribe psychotropic medication pursuant to this
chapter.
9. “Psychotropic medication” means a medicine that shall not be dispensed or
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administered without a prescription and that has been explicitly approved by the federal
food and drug administration for the treatment of a mental disorder, as defined by the
most recent version of the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders published
by the American psychiatric association or the most recent version of the international
classification of diseases. “Psychotropic medication” does not include narcotics.