SDCL § 23A-50-1: Definitions.

Terms used in this chapter and § 23A-46-1 mean:

(1) "Mental health response team," a support team tasked with finding viable community resources to help persons with severe mental illness involved in the court system;

(2) "Psychiatric certification," a credential obtained by passing the psychiatric-mental health nursing board certification through the American Nurses Credentialing Center; and

(3) "Telehealth," a mode of delivering healthcare services that utilizes information and communication technologies to enable the diagnosis, consultation, treatment, education, care management, and self-management of patients at a distance from health care providers.

Source: SL 2017, ch 109, § 1; SL 2023, ch 79, § 2.