The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
- (1) "Department" means the department of health.
- (2) "Secretary" means the secretary of health or the secretary's designee.
- (3) "Surgical technologist" means a person, regardless of title, who is supervised in the surgical setting under the delegation of authority of a health care practitioner acting within the scope of his or her license and under the laws of this state.
[ 1999 c 335 s 2.]