2020 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 24 - Health and Safety
Article 10C - Cardiac Arrest Response
Section 24-10C-6 - Exemption.
Nothing in the Cardiac Arrest Response Act precludes a physician or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice from prescribing an automated external defibrillator to a patient for use by the patient's caregiver on an individual patient, and the use does not require the individual to function in an approved program.
History: Laws 1999, ch. 94, § 6; 2007, ch. 163, § 4; 2015, ch. 116, § 11.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2015 amendment, effective June 19, 2015, amended the Cardiac Arrest Response Act provision, relating to prescribing an automated external defibrillator, by including other health care professionals with each reference to "physician"; and in the first sentence, after "physician", added "or a physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse or certified nurse-midwife working within that person's scope of practice".
Temporary provisions. — Laws 2015, ch. 116, § 16 provided that by January 1, 2016, every cabinet secretary, agency head and head of a political subdivision of the state shall update rules requiring an examination by, a certificate from or a statement of a licensed physician to also accept such examination, certificate or statement from an advanced practice registered nurse, certified nurse-midwife or physician assistant working within that person's scope of practice.
The 2007 amendment, effective June 15, 2007, changed "AED" to "automated external defibrillator".
