Current through Register Vol. XLI, No. 24, June 14, 2024
Section 19-16-2 - Definitions2.1. "Board" means the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses, established in W. Va. Code § 30-7-3.2.2. "Distant site" means the telehealth site where the health care practitioner is seeing the patient at a distance.2.3. "Established patient" means a patient who has received professional services, face-to-face, from, from a Registered Nurse or Advanced Practice Registered Nurse within the past three years.2.4. "Good standing" means a license that:2.4.1. Is not currently revoked, suspended, or subject to probationary period or a practice restriction or limitation;2.4.2. Was not surrendered while under or to avoid an investigation or disciplinary action; or2.4.3. Was not revoked, suspended, or subject to a probationary period or a practice restriction or limitation at the time the license expired, lapsed, terminated, or was cancelled.2.5. "Health care practitioner" or "practitioner" means a registered professional nurse or advanced practice registered nurse.2.6. "Interstate telehealth registration" or registration" means an authorization to practice as a registered professional nurse or advanced practice registered nurse regulated for the limited purpose of providing interstate telehealth services within the registrant's scope of practice.2.7. "Interstate telehealth registrant" or "Registrant" means a registered professional nurse or advanced practice registered nurse issued an interstate telehealth registration by the Board.2.8. "Interstate telehealth services" means the provision of telehealth services to a patient located in West Virginia by a registered nurse or advanced practice registered nurse located in any other state or commonwealth of the United States.2.9. "Licensee" means: 2.9.1. A registered professional nurse who has been granted a license to practice nursing pursuant to W. Va. Code § 30-7-1et seq.;2.9.2. An advanced practice registered nurse who has been granted a license to practice nursing pursuant to W. Va. Code § 30-7-1et seq.;2.10. "Originating site" means the location where the patient is located, whether or not accompanied by a health care practitioner, at the time services are provided by a health care practitioner through telehealth, including, but not limited to, a health care practitioner's office, hospital, critical access hospital, rural health clinic, federally qualified health center, a patient's home, and other nonmedical environments such as school-based health centers, university-based health centers, or the work location of a patient.2.11. "Professional license" means a license to practice nursing in any state or commonwealth of the United States.2.12. "Remote patient monitoring services" means the delivery of home health services using telecommunications technology to enhance the delivery of home health care, including monitoring of clinical patient data such as weight, blood pressure, pulse, pulse oximetry, blood glucose, and other condition-specific data; medication adherence monitoring; and interactive video conferencing with or without digital image upload.2.13. "Telehealth services" means the use of synchronous or asynchronous telecommunications technology or audio only telephone calls by a registered nurse or advanced practice registered nurse to provide health care services, including, but not limited to, assessment, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, and monitoring of a patient; transfer of medical data; patient and professional health-related education; public health services; and health administration. The term does not include internet questionnaires, e-mail messages, or facsimile transmissions.2.14. "Telehealth provider" means a licensee or registrant who provides health care services using telemedicine technologies to patients in West Virginia.2.15. "Telemedicine technologies" means technologies and devices which enable secure communications and information exchange in the practice of telemedicine, and typically involve the application of secure real-time audio/video conferencing or similar secure video services, remote monitoring or "store and forward digital image technology", or audio only telephone calls to provide or support health care delivery by replicating the interaction of a traditional in-person provider and a patient.2.16. "Virtual telehealth" means a new patient or follow-up patient for acute care that does not require chronic management or scheduled medications.2.17. "Nurse Portal on Board's website" means the set of related webpages operated by or on behalf of the West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses located at the domain name wvrnboard.wv.gov, or at any successor domain name published by the Board.