Definitions

1. "Abuse" means mental, physical, sexual, or verbal abuse. 2. "Chronic condition" means a condition that lasts twelve months or longer and requires ongoing medical attention or limits a member's activities of daily living. 3. "Competence" means the application and integration of knowledge, skills, ability, and judgment necessary to meet standards. 4. "Deny" means the department's refusal to issue a certification or recertification. 5. "Mental abuse" includes humiliation, harassment, threats of punishment, or deprivation. 6. "Physical abuse" includes hitting, slapping, pinching, kicking, or controlling behavior through corporal punishment. 7. "Revoke" means the withdrawal by the department of the community health worker certification for a specified period of time of no less than one year. If no specified period of time is identified by the department, revocation is permanent. 8. "Sexual abuse" includes sexual harassment, sexual coercion, sexual contact, or sexual assault. 9. "Supervision" means maintaining accountability to determine whether services provided by a community health worker are adequate and delivered appropriately. 10. "Suspend" means the temporary withholding by the department of the ability to practice as a community health worker for a specified or indefinite period of time not to exceed one year. 11. "Verbal abuse" includes any use of oral, written, or gestured language that includes disparaging and derogatory terms to or within hearing distance of a client or the client's family to describe a client's ability to comprehend or disability, regardless of the client's age.