Policy Glossary

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Communicable Disease

An infectious disease that can be transmitted from a person, animal, or object to a person by direct or indirect means (e.g., transmission through an intermediate host, vector, food, water, air).

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Health Services Unified Leadership

A collective team of Health Services leadership at Prisons that ensure health services at their facility meet the needs of patients consistent with the strategic business plan. Members are comprised of the Facility Medical Director, Senior Health Serivices Manager, and RN4.

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Healthcare Practitioner

A physician, dentist, nurse, or other person duly authorized by law or rule in the State of Washington to prescribe drugs (RCW 18.64.011). Practitioner = prescriber.

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Healthcare Provider

A person who is licensed, certified, registered, or otherwise authorized by the law of this state to provide healthcare in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession.

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Informed Consent

The documented agreement by a patient to a treatment, examination, or procedure after the patient receives the material facts about the nature, consequences, and risks of the proposed treatment, examination, or procedure and the alternatives to it.

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