440.08 (2m) (a) in order to maintain without interruption the rights, privileges and authority conferred by the credential.
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Required records. Prohibited conduct. Criminal penalties. Civil remedies. Administrative forfeiture. Uniformity of application and construction. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. Rules.
(e) “Reprimand” means to publicly warn the holder of a credential. (f) “Revoke,” when used in reference to revoking a credential, means to completely and absolutely terminate the credential and all rights, privileges, and authority previously conferred by the credential. (g) “Secretary” means the secretary of safety and professional services. (h) “Suspend,” when used in reference to suspending a credential, means to completely and absolutely withdraw and withhold for a period of time all rights, privileges, and authority previously conferred by the credential. (hm) “Telehealth” means a practice of health care delivery, diagnosis, consultation, treatment, or transfer of medically relevant data by means of audio, video, or data communications that are used either during a patient visit or a consultation or are used to transfer medically relevant data about a patient. “Telehealth” includes asynchronous telehealth services, interactive telehealth, and remote patient monitoring. (i) “Ventricular fibrillation” means a disturbance in the normal rhythm of the heart that is characterized by rapid, irregular, and ineffective twitching of the ventricles of the heart. (2) In this subchapter: (a) “Credential” means a license, permit, or certificate of certification or registration that is issued under chs. 440 to 480. (b) “Credentialing” means the acts of an examining board, section of an examining board, affiliated credentialing board or the department that relate to granting, issuing, denying, limiting, suspending or revoking a credential. (bm) “Credentialing board” means an examining board or an affiliated credentialing board in the department. (c) “Examining board” includes the board of nursing. (cs) “Minority group member” has the meaning given in s. 16.287 (1) (f). (cv) “Psychotherapy” has the meaning given in s. 457.01 (8m). (d) “Reciprocal credential” means a credential granted by an examining board, section of an examining board, affiliated credentialing board or the department to an applicant who holds a credential issued by a governmental authority in a jurisdiction outside this state authorizing or qualifying the applicant to perform acts that are substantially the same as those acts authorized by the credential granted by the examining board, section of the examining board, affiliated credentialing board or department. History: 1977 c. 418; 1979 c. 34; 1979 c. 175 s. 53; 1979 c. 221 s. 2202 (45); 1991 a. 39; 1993 a. 102, 107; 1995 a. 233, 333; 1997 a. 35 s. 448; 1997 a. 237 ss. 532, 539m; 1999 a. 9 s. 2915; 2001 a. 80; 2007 a. 104, 143; 2011 a. 32; 2015 a. 196; 2021 a. 121; 2023 a. 33.