2015 Arkansas Code
Title 17 - Professions, Occupations, and Businesses
Subtitle 3 - Medical Professions
Chapter 98 - Registration of Disease Intervention Specialists
Subchapter 1 - General Provisions
§ 17-98-103 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Associate disease intervention specialist" means a person who meets the educational and specialized training requirements of this chapter, but does not meet the experience requirements established for a registered disease intervention specialist;

(2) "Board" means the State Board of Disease Intervention Specialists created by this chapter;

(3) "Continuing education unit" means value given for participation in organized continuing education experience under reasonable sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction approved by the board;

(4) "Disease intervention" means activities used to prevent disease transmission by ensuring that those people who have a sexually transmitted disease and those who have been exposed to a sexually transmitted disease are promptly located, examined, and adequately treated before any signs or symptoms of a disease appear or before any laboratory evidence of a disease is demonstrable or before an infected person would have sought treatment voluntarily;

(5) "Disease intervention specialist-in-training" means a person who meets the educational requirements of this chapter, but does not meet the specialized training requirements established for an associate disease intervention specialist; and

(6) "Registered disease intervention specialist" means a trained health care professional meeting the educational, specialized training, and experience requirements of this chapter who practices sexually transmitted disease intervention with patients, sex partners, and others suspected of having a sexually transmitted disease.