2013 New York Consolidated Laws
PBH - Public Health
Article 29-CCC - (2994-AA - 2994-GG) NONHOSPITAL ORDERS NOT TO RESUSCITATE
2994-AA - Definitions.

 
    §  2994-aa.  Definitions.  1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen
  years of age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married.
    2.  "Attending  physician"  means  the  physician  who   has   primary
  responsibility  for  the  treatment  and care of the patient. Where more
  than one physician shares such responsibility, any  such  physician  may
  act as the attending physician pursuant to this article.
    3.  "Capacity"  means  the  ability  to  understand and appreciate the
  nature and consequences of  a  nonhospital  order  not  to  resuscitate,
  including  the benefits and disadvantages of such an order, and to reach
  an informed decision regarding the order.
    4. "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" means  measures,  as  specified  in
  regulations promulgated by the commissioner, to restore cardiac function
  or  to  support  ventilation  in  the  event of a cardiac or respiratory
  arrest. Such term shall not include measures to improve ventilation  and
  cardiac function in the absence of an arrest.
    5.  "Emergency  medical  services  personnel" means the personnel of a
  service  or  agency  engaged  in  providing  initial  emergency  medical
  assistance,  including  but  not  limited to first responders, emergency
  medical  technicians,  advanced  emergency   medical   technicians   and
  personnel  engaged  in providing health care at correctional facilities,
  as that term is defined in  subdivision  four  of  section  two  of  the
  correction law.
    6.  "Health  care  agent"  means  a  health  care agent of the patient
  designated pursuant to article twenty-nine-C of this chapter.
    7.  "Health  or  social  services  practitioner"  means  a  registered
  professional  nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, physician assistant,
  psychologist or certified, licensed master  social  worker  or  licensed
  clinical  social worker, licensed or certified pursuant to the education
  law, acting within his or her scope of practice.
    8. "Home care services agency" means an entity certified, licensed  or
  exempt under article thirty-six of this chapter.
    9.  "Hospice"  means  a  hospice  as  defined in article forty of this
  chapter.
    10. "Hospital" means a general hospital as defined in subdivision  ten
  of  section  twenty-eight  hundred one of this chapter and a residential
  health  care  facility  as  defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section
  twenty-eight  hundred  one  of  this chapter or a hospital as defined in
  subdivision ten  of  section  1.03  of  the  mental  hygiene  law  or  a
  developmental disabilities services office named in section 13.17 of the
  mental hygiene law.
    11. "Hospital emergency services personnel" means the personnel of the
  emergency  service  of a general hospital, as defined in subdivision ten
  of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, including  but  not
  limited  to  emergency services attending physicians, emergency services
  registered professional  nurses,  and  registered  professional  nurses,
  nursing  staff  and  registered  physician  assistants  assigned  to the
  general hospital's emergency service.
    12. "Mental hygiene facility" means a residential facility operated or
  licensed by the  office  of  mental  health  or  the  office  of  mental
  retardation and developmental disabilities.
    13. "Nonhospital order not to resuscitate" means an order that directs
  emergency  medical  services  personnel,  hospice personnel and hospital
  emergency   services   personnel   not   to   attempt    cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation  in  the  event  a  patient suffers cardiac or respiratory
  arrest.
    14. "Patient" means a person who has been  or  who  may  be  issued  a
  nonhospital order not to resuscitate.

    15.  "Surrogate"  means  a  person  authorized  to  make a health care
  decision on behalf of a patient pursuant to  article  twenty-nine-CC  of
  this chapter.