2In this Regulation
“Act” means the Regional Health Authorities Act; (Loi)
“board of directors” means the board of directors of a regional health authority; (conseil d’administration)
“chief executive officer” means the chief executive officer of a regional health authority; (directeur général)
“clinical record” means a written, electronic or printed record maintained by a regional health authority of the services rendered to a patient and includes a clinical record as set out in section 7; (dossier clinique)
“medical practitioner” means a person lawfully entitled to practise medicine in the Province, and includes a medical officer of Her Majesty’s Armed Forces serving in the Province; (médecin)
“medical staff” means medical practitioners who are appointed by a board of directors to the medical staff of a regional health authority and given privileges; (personnel médical)
“nurse practitioner” means a person who is registered under the laws of the Province as authorized to practise as a nurse practitioner; (infirmière praticienne)
“nursing assessment” includes observations, interviews, reporting and the administration of specific assessment tools and standardized tests and measures for purposes of
(évaluation infirmière)
(a)
evaluating the need for services,
(b)
assessing an individual patient’s physical, psycho-social, emotional and cognitive health status,
(c)
identifying service recipient goals and expected outcomes, and
(d)
identifying diagnosis and consequences of health conditions and the extent of services required;
“patient” means a person who receives health services from a regional health authority; (malade)
“primary health care” means the first level of contact of individuals, a family or the community with the health system and the first level of a continuing health care process and may include health education, promotion and prevention at the individual or community level, assessment, diagnostic services, intervention and treatment; (soins de santé primaires)
“privileges” means permission granted by a board of directors to a medical practitioner to render medical care to a patient and to use the diagnostic services in one or more hospital facilities or community health centres; (privilèges)
“rehabilitation services” means services that prevent, eliminate or minimize a loss of function or assist an individual in adapting to a loss of a function for the purposes of achieving well-being, social integration and an optimal level of independence and may include assessment, treatment, health education and consultation; (services de réadaptation)
“social services” means services to provide assessment and intervention to individuals, their families or both in respect of personal, socio-economic or environmental issues related to the individual’s primary health care needs. (services sociaux)