Wis. Admin. Code Department of Health Services § DHS 144.02 - Definitions
(1) "Advanced practice nurse prescriber" has
the meaning given in s. N 8.02 (2).
(2) "Child care center" has the meaning given
in s. 49.136(1) (ad),
Stats.
(3) "Department" means the
Wisconsin department of health services, unless otherwise specified.
(4) "DT" means pediatric diphtheria and
tetanus vaccine.
(5) "DTaP" means
pediatric diphtheria, tetanus, and acellular pertussis vaccine.
(6) "DTP" means pediatric diphtheria,
tetanus, and pertussis vaccine.
(7)
"Hib" means Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine.
(8) "Hep B" means hepatitis B
vaccine.
(9) "Immunization" means
the process of inducing immunity artificially by receiving an
immunobiologic.
(10) "Local health
department" has the meaning given in s.
250.01(4),
Stats.
(11) "Mening" means a
meningococcal vaccine containing, at a minimum, serogroups A, C, W, and
Y.
(12) "MMR" means measles, mumps,
and rubella vaccine received in combination or as separate vaccines.
(13) "Municipality" means any town, village,
city, or county.
(14) "Parent"
means the parent, parents, guardian, or legal custodian of any minor
student.
(15) "PCV" means
pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
(16) "Physician" means an individual
possessing the degree of doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy or an
equivalent degree as determined by the medical examining board under s.
448.05(2),
Stats., and holding a license granted by the medical examining board under s.
448.06, Stats.
(17) "Physician assistant" has the meaning
given in s. 448.971(2),
Stats.
(18) "School" means any
public or private elementary, middle, junior or senior high school, which
provides educational instruction to students in any grade kindergarten through
12, or in an ungraded educational setting, or to preschool children enrolled in
early childhood programs.
(18m)
"School day," in reference to schools, has the meaning prescribed in s.
115.01(10),
Stats. "School day," in reference to child care centers, means any day that the
center is open and caring for children.
(19) "Student" means any individual enrolled
in or attending a school or child care center.
(20) "Subsided" in reference to a substantial
outbreak means passage of 2 incubation periods for the disease causing the
outbreak without additional cases, unless a shorter period of time is judged
adequate by the department.
(21)
"Substantial outbreak" means occurrence of any of the following diseases at the
threshold determined by the department using epidemiological factors such as
time and place:
(a) Measles.
(b) Mumps.
(c) Rubella.
(d) Polio.
(e) Pertussis.
(f) Diphtheria.
(g) Haemophilus influenzae type b.
(h) Varicella.
(i) Meningococcal disease.
Note: On March 9, 2023, the Joint Committee for the Review of Administrative Rules (JCRAR) adopted a motion under s. 227.26(2) (d), Stats., that suspended s. DHS 144.02 (21) (h) and (i). Pursuant to s. 227.26(2) (f), Stats., JCRAR took executive action to introduce 2023 LRB-2600/1 and LRB-2630/1 in the Senate and Assembly, in support of the JCRAR suspension.
(22)
"Td" means adolescent and adult tetanus and diphtheria vaccine.
(23) "Tdap" means adolescent and adult
tetanus, diphtheria and acellular pertussis vaccine.
(24) "Vaccine provider" means a health care
facility, as defined in s.
155.01(6),
Stats., which administers vaccines, or a local health department, or a
physician's office which administers vaccines.
(25) "Var" means varicella vaccine.
Note: Varicella is commonly known as chickenpox.
(26) "Written
evidence of immunization" means a paper or an electronic record, which at a
minimum indicates the date that each required dose of vaccine was administered
to a student or the results of a laboratory test indicating immunity to the
disease. Students who have not previously attended a Wisconsin school must
provide the month, day, and year for each required dose of vaccine.
Notes
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