RCW 18.79.020
Definitions.
Unless a different meaning is plainly required by the context, the definitions set forth in this section apply throughout this chapter.
(1) "Commission" means the Washington state nursing care quality assurance commission.
(2) "Department" means the department of health.
(3) "Secretary" means the secretary of health or the secretary's designee.
(4) "Diagnosis," in the context of nursing practice, means the identification of, and discrimination between, the person's physical and psychosocial signs and symptoms that are essential to effective execution and management of the nursing care regimen.
(5) "Diploma" means written official verification of completion of an approved nursing education program.
(6) "Nurse" or "nursing," unless otherwise specified as a practical nurse or practical nursing, means a registered nurse or registered nursing.
[ 1994 sp.s. c 9 § 402.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 18 - Businesses and Professions
18.79.030 - Licenses required—Titles.
18.79.040 - "Registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.050 - "Advanced registered nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.060 - "Licensed practical nursing practice" defined—Exceptions.
18.79.070 - Commission established—Membership—Qualifications.
18.79.080 - Commission—Order of removal—Vacancy.
18.79.090 - Commission—Compensation.
18.79.100 - Commission—Officers—Meetings.
18.79.110 - Commission—Duties and powers—Rules—Successor to boards.
18.79.120 - Application of Uniform Disciplinary Act.
18.79.140 - Executive director—Qualifications.
18.79.150 - Schools and programs—Requirements—Approval.
18.79.160 - Applicants—Required documentation—Criteria—Rules.
18.79.170 - Examination—Rules.
18.79.180 - Interim permits—License—Expiration upon failure.
18.79.190 - Reciprocity—Foreign programs—Examination.
18.79.200 - License procedures, requirements, fees.
18.79.210 - License renewal—Procedures, requirements, fees.
18.79.230 - Temporary retirement—Renewal—Fee—Qualification.
18.79.250 - Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Activities allowed.
18.79.256 - Advanced registered nurse practitioner—Scope of practice—Document attestation.
18.79.260 - Registered nurse—Activities allowed—Delegation of tasks.
18.79.270 - Licensed practical nurse—Activities allowed.
18.79.280 - Medication, tests, treatments allowed.
18.79.290 - Catheterization of students—Rules.
18.79.300 - Department—Rules for administration.
18.79.310 - Rules, regulations, decisions of previous boards—Effect.
18.79.340 - Nursing technicians.
18.79.350 - Nursing technicians—Nursing functions.
18.79.360 - Applications for registration as a nursing technician—Fee.
18.79.370 - Nursing technicians—Registration renewal.
18.79.390 - Secretary and commission relationship.
18.79.400 - Pain management rules—Criteria for new rules.
18.79.410 - Commission—Information to legislature.
18.79.420 - Down syndrome—Parent information.
18.79.800 - Opioid drug prescribing rules—Adoption.
18.79.810 - Opioid drugs—Right to refuse.
18.79.900 - Severability—1994 sp.s. c 9.