Section DHS 144.02 - Definitions(1) "Advanced practice nurse prescriber" has the meaning given in s. N 8.02 (2).(2) "Child care center" has the meaning given in s. 49.136 (1) (ad), Stats.(3) "Department" means the Wisconsin department of health services, unless otherwise specified.(4) "DT" means pediatric diphtheria and tetanus vaccine.(5) "DTaP" means pediatric diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine.(6) "DTP" means pediatric diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis vaccine.(7) "Hib" means Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine.(8) "Hep B" means hepatitis B vaccine.(9) "Immunization" means the process of inducing immunity artificially by receiving an immunobiologic.(10) "Local health department" has the meaning given in s. 250.01 (4), Stats.(11) "Mening" means a meningococcal vaccine containing, at a minimum, serogroups A, C, W, and Y.(12) "MMR" means measles, mumps, and rubella vaccine received in combination or as separate vaccines.(13) "Municipality" means any town, village, city, or county.(14) "Parent" means the parent, parents, guardian, or legal custodian of any minor student.(15) "PCV" means pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.(16) "Physician" means an individual possessing the degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy or an equivalent degree as determined by the medical examining board under s. 448.05 (2), Stats., and holding a license granted by the medical examining board under s. 448.06, Stats.(17) "Physician assistant" has the meaning given in s. 448.971 (2), Stats.(18) "School" means any public or private elementary, middle, junior or senior high school, which provides educational instruction to students in any grade kindergarten through 12, or in an ungraded educational setting, or to preschool children enrolled in early childhood programs.(18m) "School day," in reference to schools, has the meaning prescribed in s. 115.01 (10), Stats. "School day," in reference to child care centers, means any day that the center is open and caring for children.(19) "Student" means any individual enrolled in or attending a school or child care center.(20) "Subsided" in reference to a substantial outbreak means passage of 2 incubation periods for the disease causing the outbreak without additional cases, unless a shorter period of time is judged adequate by the department.(21) "Substantial outbreak" means occurrence of any of the following diseases at the threshold determined by the department using epidemiological factors such as time and place:(g) Haemophilus influenzae type b.(i) Meningococcal disease.(22) "Td" means adolescent and adult tetanus and diphtheria vaccine.(23) "Tdap" means adolescent and adult tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine.(24) "Vaccine provider" means a health care facility, as defined in s. 155.01 (6), Stats., which administers vaccines, or a local health department, or a physician's office which administers vaccines.(25) "Var" means varicella vaccine. Note: Varicella is commonly known as chickenpox.
(26) "Written evidence of immunization" means a paper or an electronic record, which at a minimum indicates the date that each required dose of vaccine was administered to a student or the results of a laboratory test indicating immunity to the disease. Students who have not previously attended a Wisconsin school must provide the month, day, and year for each required dose of vaccine.Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services DHS 144.02
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