§ 37:1360.52 — Definitions

Louisiana § 37:1360.52

• Jurisdiction: Louisiana
• Title 37: Professions and Occupations

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§1360.52. Definitions
As used in this Part, the following words, terms, and phrases have the meaning
ascribed to them in this Section, unless the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
(1) "Board" means the Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners as established
in R.S. 37:1263.
(2) "Drug" means the same as the term "drug" as defined in R.S. 40:961, including
controlled substances except narcotics, but shall be limited only to those agents related to the
diagnosis and treatment or management of mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance
abuse, or cognitive disorders. Nothing in this Part shall be construed to permit a medical
psychologist to administer or prescribe a narcotic.
(3) "LAMP" means the Louisiana Academy of Medical Psychologists.
(4) "LSBEP" means the Louisiana State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
(5) "Medical psychologist" or "MP" means a psychological practitioner who has
undergone specialized training in clinical psychopharmacology and has passed a national
proficiency examination in psychopharmacology approved by the board. Such practice
specifically includes the authority to administer, prescribe, and distribute without charge,
drugs as defined in this Part.
(6) "Medical Psychology Advisory Committee" means a committee, established by
the board for purposes as defined in this Part.
(7) "Medical psychology" means that profession of the health sciences which deals
with the examination, diagnosis, psychological, pharmacologic, and other somatic treatment
and/or management of mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse, or cognitive
disorders, and specifically includes the authority to administer, distribute without charge,
and/or prescribe drugs as defined in this Part. In addition, the practice of medical psychology
includes those practices defined in R.S. 37:2352.
(8) "Mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse, and cognitive
disorders" means those disorders, illnesses, or diseases listed in either the most recent edition
of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published by the American
Psychiatric Association or the mental, nervous, emotional, behavioral, substance abuse, and
cognitive disorders listed in the International Classification of Diseases published by the
World Health Organization.
(9) "Narcotics" means those natural or synthetic opioid analgesics, and their
derivatives used to relieve pain.
(10) "Nurse" for the purpose of this Part means a licensed practical nurse or a
registered nurse.
(11) "Nurse practitioner" means the same as the term "nurse practitioner" is defined
in R.S. 37:913.
(12) "Physician" means an individual licensed by the board to engage in the practice
of medicine in the state of Louisiana.
(13) "Physician assistant" means the same as the term "physician assistant" is defined
in R.S. 37:1360.22.
(14) "Primary care" means routine healthcare services, including screening,
assessment, diagnosis, treatment for promotion of health, and detection and management of
disease or injury.
(15) "Primary care provider" means the principal, treating, or attending physician,
physician assistant, or nurse practitioner responsible for a patient's primary care.

Legislative History

Acts 2009, No. 251, §11, eff. July 1 2009; Acts 2024, No. 731, §1.