(1) "Board" means the Oregon State Board of Nursing.

(2) "Clinical nurse specialist" means a licensed registered nurse who has been licensed by the board as qualified to practice the expanded clinical specialty nursing role.

(3) "Diagnosing" in the context of the practice of nursing means identification of and discrimination between physical and psychosocial signs and symptoms essential to effective execution and management of the nursing care.

(4) "Human responses" means signs, symptoms and processes that denote the person’s interaction with an actual or potential health problem.

(5) "Long term care facility" means a licensed skilled nursing facility or intermediate care facility as those terms are used in ORS 442.015, an adult foster home as defined in ORS 443.705 that has residents over 60 years of age, or a residential care facility, including an assisted living facility, as defined in ORS 443.400.

(6) "Nurse practitioner" means a registered nurse who has been licensed by the board as qualified to practice in an expanded specialty role within the practice of nursing.

(7) "Physician" means a person licensed to practice under ORS chapter 677.

(8)(a) "Practice of nursing" means diagnosing and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems through services such as identification thereof, health teaching, health counseling and providing care supportive to or restorative of life and well-being and including the performance of additional services requiring education and training that are recognized by the nursing profession as proper to be performed by nurses licensed under ORS 678.010 to 678.410 and that are recognized by rules of the board.

(b) "Practice of nursing" includes:

(A) Executing medical orders prescribed by a physician, dentist, clinical nurse specialist, nurse practitioner, certified registered nurse anesthetist or other licensed health care provider licensed or certified by this state and authorized by the board by rule to issue orders for medical treatment; and

(B) Providing supervision of nursing assistants.

(c) "Practice of nursing" does not include the execution of medical orders described in this subsection by a member of the immediate family for another member or by a person designated by or on behalf of a person requiring care as provided by board rule if the person executing the order is not licensed under ORS 678.010 to 678.410.

(9) "Practice of practical nursing" means the application of knowledge drawn from basic education in the social and physical sciences in planning and giving nursing care and in assisting persons toward achieving of health and well-being.

(10) "Practice of registered nursing" means the application of knowledge drawn from broad in-depth education in the social and physical sciences in assessing, planning, ordering, giving, delegating, teaching and supervising care that promotes the person’s optimum health and independence.

(11) "Treating" means selection and performance of therapeutic measures essential to the effective execution and management of the nursing care and execution of the prescribed medical orders. [Amended by 1957 c.316 §2; 1973 c.584 §1; 1975 c.205 §1; 1975 c.659 §1; 1995 c.763 §3; 1997 c.204 §1; 1999 c.498 §4; 2001 c.465 §1; 2017 c.132 §1; 2019 c.358 §21]