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2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 449A - Care and Rights of Patients
NRS 449A.575 - Actions contrary to reasonable medical standards not required; mercy-killing, euthanasia or assisted suicide not authorized; rights associated with other advance directives not impaired; right to make decisions concerning emergency care or life-sustaining treatment not affected.
Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 449A.575 (2022)
The provisions of NRS 449A.500 to 449A.581, inclusive, do not:
1. Require a provider of health care to take any action contrary to reasonable medical standards;
2. Affect the responsibility of a provider of health care to provide treatment for a patient’s comfort or alleviation of pain;
3. Condone, authorize or approve mercy killing, euthanasia or assisted suicide;
4. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449A.557, affect or impair any right created pursuant to the provisions of any other types of advance directives; or
5. Affect the right of a patient to make decisions concerning the use of emergency care or life-sustaining treatment, if he or she is able to do so.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 2288)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 449.6958)
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