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34-27B-2
Section 34-27B-2 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the following
meanings: (1) BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Respiratory Therapy. (2) DIRECT CLINICAL SUPERVISION.
A situation where a licensed respiratory therapist or physician is available for the purpose
of communication, consultation, and assistance. (3) HEALTHCARE FACILITY. The definition shall
be the same as in Section 22-21-260. (4) MEDICALLY APPROVED PROTOCOL. A detailed plan for
taking specific diagnostic or treatment actions, or both, authorized by the treating physician
of the patient, all of which actions shall be: a. In a hospital or other inpatient health
care facility, approved by the supervising physician of the respiratory therapist or in an
outpatient treatment setting approved by the supervising physician of the respiratory therapist.
b. Except in cases of medical emergency, instituted following an evaluation of the patient
by a physician or otherwise directed by the supervising...
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27-20A-3
Section 27-20A-3 Benefits required. The benefits to be offered under this chapter shall include
inpatient or residential treatment rendered to the insured, subscriber or other person covered,
at a state licensed hospital or at a short term residential alcoholism treatment facility
or detoxification facility duly licensed or certified as such by the Alabama Board of Health
or the Alabama Mental Health Board. Benefits shall also include outpatient treatment rendered
to the insured, subscriber or other person covered, by a duly licensed doctor of medicine
or by an alcoholism treatment facility duly licensed or certified as such by the Alabama Board
of Health or the Alabama Mental Health Board. (Acts 1979, No. 79-436, p. 701, ยง3.)...
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34-2A-11
Section 34-2A-11 Administrators licensed in other state; licensed nursing home administrators;
acute care hospital administrators, etc. (a) The board may, subject to this chapter and the
rules and regulations of the board prescribing the qualifications for an assisted living administrator
license, issue a license to an assisted living administrator who has been issued a license
by the proper authorities of any other state or issued a certificate of qualification by any
national organization, upon complying with the provisions of licensure, payment of a fee established
by the board pursuant to its rule-making authority, and upon submission of evidence satisfactory
to the board of all of the following: (1) That the other state or national organization maintained
a system and standards of qualification and examinations for an assisted living administrator
license or certificate which were substantially equivalent to those required in this state
at the time the other license or certificate...
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34-20-4
Section 34-20-4 Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators - Generally. (a) There is
a Board of Examiners of Nursing Home Administrators composed of seven members, six original
members as set out in this subsection, and an additional consumer member as set out in subsection
(b). The membership of the board shall be inclusive and reflect the racial, gender, geographic,
urban/rural, and economic diversity of the state. The six original members shall be composed
as follows: Three members shall be nursing home administrators duly licensed and registered
under this chapter; one member shall be a physician, licensed under the laws of the State
of Alabama, who is actively concerned in a practice with the care of chronically ill and infirm,
aged patients; one member shall be a hospital administrator; and one member shall be a registered
nurse, licensed in Alabama, who has five years' experience as a geriatric nurse and who is
actively serving as a director of nursing in a geriatric...
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34-23-150
Section 34-23-150 Definitions. As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings: (1) BOARD. The Alabama State Board of Pharmacy. (2) COMPONENT. Any ingredient
used in the compounding of a drug product. (3) COMPOUNDING. The preparation, mixing, assembling,
packaging, and labeling of a drug or device as the result of a licensed practitioner's prescription
drug order or initiative based on the practitioner/patient/pharmacist relationship in the
course of professional practice. a. Compounding may also be for the purpose of, or as incident
to, research, teaching, or chemical analysis. b. Compounding includes the preparation of drugs
or devices in anticipation of prescription drug orders based on routine, regularly observed
prescribing patterns. c. Reconstitution of commercial products is not considered compounding
for purposes of this article. (4) COMPOUNDED OVER THE COUNTER (OTC) PRODUCTS. A medical product
that is prepared, packaged, and labeled in a pharmacy...
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26-23B-3
Section 26-23B-3 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have
the following meanings: (1) ABORTION. The use or prescription of any instrument, medicine,
drug, or any other substance or device to terminate the pregnancy of a woman known to be pregnant
with an intention other than to increase the probability of a live birth, to preserve the
life or health of the child after live birth, or to remove a dead unborn child who died as
the result of natural causes in utero, accidental trauma, or a criminal assault on the pregnant
woman or her unborn child, and which causes the premature termination of the pregnancy. (2)
ATTEMPT TO PERFORM OR INDUCE AN ABORTION. An act, or an omission of a statutorily required
act, that, under the circumstances as the actor believes them to be, constitutes a substantial
step in a course of conduct planned to culminate in the performance or induction of an abortion
in this state in violation of this chapter. (3) FERTILIZATION. The...
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27-26-1
Section 27-26-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases
shall have the respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) MEDICAL PRACTITIONER. Anyone
licensed to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Alabama, engaged in such practice,
and shall include medical professional corporations, associations, and partnerships. (2) DENTAL
PRACTITIONER. Anyone licensed to practice dentistry in the State of Alabama, engaged in such
practice, and such term includes professional dental corporations, associations, and partnerships.
(3) MEDICAL INSTITUTION. Any licensed hospital, or any physicians' or dentists' offices or
clinics containing facilities for the examination, diagnosis, treatment, or care of human
illnesses. (4) PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION. Any medical or dental professional corporation or
any medical or dental professional association. (5) PHYSICIAN. Any person licensed to practice
medicine in Alabama. (6) DENTIST. Any person licensed to practice...
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34-21-1
Section 34-21-1 Definitions. For purposes of this chapter, the following terms shall have the
respective meanings ascribed by this section: (1) ADVISORY COUNCILS. Advisory councils provided
for under the terms of this chapter. (2) BOARD. The Board of Nursing created hereunder. (3)
COMPACT. The Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact provided in Article 7. (4) COORDINATED LICENSE
INFORMATION SYSTEM. A licensing integrated database and process for collecting, storing, and
sharing nurse licensure and enforcement information that includes all licensed registered
nurses and licensed practical/vocational nurses. The system includes all disciplinary history
of each nurse, as administered by a nonprofit organization and controlled by licensing boards.
(5) LICENSED PRACTICAL NURSE. A person who is currently licensed to practice practical nursing.
For the purposes of the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact, practical nursing includes practice
as a licensed practical nurse, licensed vocational nurse, or...
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34-22-4
Section 34-22-4 Limitation on application of chapter. (a) It is not the intent of this chapter
to prevent any school teacher, welfare worker, state, county, municipality, or other public
board, body, agency, institution, or official from determining in the course of their official
duties the probable need of visual services; provided, that the aforenamed person or agency
does not attempt to examine, diagnose, prescribe, or recommend any particular practitioner
and complies with the provisions of Section 38-1-2. (b) A license to practice optometry shall
not be required for the sale, preparation, or dispensing of eyeglasses or spectacles in a
retail optical dispensary or from a store, shop, or other permanently established place of
business with an optical department on prescription of a duly licensed physician skilled in
diseases of the eyes or a duly licensed optometrist authorized to practice under the laws
of this state. Contact lenses may be sold or dispensed in a retail optical...
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34-23-8
Section 34-23-8 Substitution of drugs or brands of drugs. No person shall dispense or cause
to be dispensed a different drug or brand of drug in lieu of that ordered or prescribed without
the express permission in each case of the person ordering or prescribing such drug, except
as provided below: (1) A licensed pharmacist in this state shall be permitted to select for
the brand name drug product prescribed by a licensed physician or other practitioner who is
located in this state and authorized by law to write prescriptions, hereinafter referred to
as "practitioner," a less expensive pharmaceutically and therapeutically equivalent
drug product containing the same active ingredient or ingredients, and of the same dosage
form strength, in all cases where the practitioner expressly authorizes such selection in
accordance with subdivision (4). (2) A licensed pharmacist located in this state shall be
permitted to select for the brand name drug product prescribed by a practitioner who is...
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