Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 056 - Optometry, Board of Examiners in
Sub-Agency 0001 - Optometry, Board of Examiners in
Chapter 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section 1-2 - Definitions

Universal Citation: WY Code of Rules 1-2

Current through September 21, 2024

(a) "Act" means Wyoming Statute §§ 33-23-101 through -117.

(b) "AOA" means American Optometric Association.

(c) "ARC" means Application Review Committee.

(d) "ARBO" means Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry.

(e) "Asynchronous" means the instructor and licensee are not together at the same time, there is no real time communication between the instructor and the licensee, the licensee does not receive immediate feedback, and content is created and made available for attendance at a later date.

(f) "Board Rules" means the administrative rules promulgated by the Board.

(g) "CE" means continuing education.

(h) "CELMO" means The Council on Endorsed Licensure Mobility for Optometrists.

(i) "COPE" means Council on Optometric Practitioner Education.

(j) "IC" means Investigative Committee.

(k) "Incompetence" means an act or omission that presents a danger to an individual's life, health, or safety and is likely to cause death or injury.

(l) "NBEO" means National Board of Examiners in Optometry.

(m) "OE Tracker" means an ARBO program that captures and stores CE information for optometrists.

(n) "Permissible removal of foreign bodies" means removal of superficial ocular foreign bodies not penetrating the intraocular spaces or tissues.

(o) "Pharmaceutical Agents" means those Food and Drug Administration approved pharmaceutical agents related to the practice of optometry.

(p) "Surgery" means the penetration by manual operation into the intraocular tissues or spaces for healing diseases, deformations, or injuries.

(q) "Synchronous" means the instructor and licensee are together at the same time, there is real time communication between the instructor and the licensee, the licensee can receive immediate feedback, and the course is on a fixed schedule where learning takes place only once at a specific date and time.

(r) "WAPA" means the Wyoming Administrative Procedure Act, W.S. §§ 16-3-101 through -115.

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