2011 Alaska Statutes
Title 18. HEALTH, SAFETY, AND HOUSING
Chapter 18.20. HOSPITALS AND NURSING FACILITIES
Sec. 18.20.499. Definitions.
In AS 18.20.400 - 18.20.499,
(1) "commissioner" means the commissioner of labor and workforce development;
(2) "health care facility" means a private, municipal, or state hospital; independent diagnostic testing facility; primary care outpatient facility; skilled nursing facility; kidney disease treatment center, including freestanding hemodialysis units; intermediate care facility; ambulatory surgical facility; Alaska Pioneers' Home or Alaska Veterans' Home administered by the Department of Health and Social Services under AS 47.55; correctional facility owned or administered by the state; private, municipal, or state facility employing one or more public health nurses; long-term care facility; psychiatric hospital; residential psychiatric treatment center, as defined in AS 18.07.111 or AS 47.32.900 ; secure residential psychiatric treatment center under AS 47.12.990; juvenile detention facility; juvenile detention home, juvenile work camp, or treatment facility as defined in AS 47.12.990 ;
(3) "nurse" means an individual licensed to practice registered nursing or practical nursing under AS 08.68 who provides nursing services through direct patient care or clinical services and includes a nurse manager when delivering in-hospital patient care;
(4) "on-call" means a status in which a nurse must be ready to report to the health care facility and may be called to work by the health care facility;
(5) "overtime" means the hours worked in excess of a predetermined and regularly scheduled shift that is agreed to by a nurse and a health care facility;
(6) "rural community" means a village or city that has a population of less than 10,000, as determined by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development, and is in
(A) the unorganized borough; or
(B) an organized borough that has a population of less than 25,000, as determined by the Department of Labor and Workforce Development.
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