2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients
NRS 449A.460 - Immunity from civil and criminal liability and discipline for unprofessional conduct.
1. A physician or other provider of health care is not subject to civil or criminal liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct, for giving effect to a declaration or the direction of a person designated pursuant to NRS 449A.433 in the absence of knowledge of the revocation of a declaration, or for giving effect to a written consent under NRS 449A.454.
2. A physician or other provider of health care, whose action pursuant to NRS 449A.400 to 449A.481, inclusive, is in accord with reasonable medical standards, is not subject to civil or criminal liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct, with respect to that action.
3. A physician or other provider of health care, whose decision about the validity of consent under NRS 449A.454 is made in good faith, is not subject to civil or criminal liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct, with respect to that decision.
4. A person designated pursuant to NRS 449A.433 or a person authorized to consent pursuant to NRS 449A.454, whose decision is made or consent is given in good faith pursuant to NRS 449A.400 to 449A.481, inclusive, is not subject to civil or criminal liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct, with respect to that decision.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 760; A 1985, 1747; 1991, 635)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 449.630)
