45:14E-3 - Definitions - New Jersey Statutes

45:14E-3  Definitions.

3.As used in this act:

a."Board" means the State Board of Respiratory Care established pursuant to section 4 of this act. 

b."Director" means the Director of the Division of Consumer Affairs in the Department of Law and Public Safety. 

c."Respiratory care" means the health specialty involving the treatment, disease management, control, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiac and pulmonary system.  The care shall include the use of medical gases, air and oxygen-administering apparatus, environmental control systems, humidification and aerosols, drugs and medications, apparatus for cardiopulmonary support and control, postural drainage, chest percussion and vibration and breathing exercise, pulmonary rehabilitation, performance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, maintenance of natural and mechanical airways, insertion and maintenance of artificial airways and insertion and maintenance of peripheral arterial and peripheral venous catheters.  The care shall also include testing techniques to assist in diagnosis, monitoring, treatment and research, including but not necessarily limited to, the measurement of cardiopulmonary volumes, pressure and flow, and the drawing and analyzing of samples of arterial, capillary and venous blood. 

d."Respiratory care practitioner" means a person licensed by the board to practice respiratory care under the direction or supervision of a physician. 

L.1991,c.31,s.3; amended 2004, c.167, s.1.