2016 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 63. Public Health and Safety
§63-3131.3. Definitions.

As used in the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act:

1. "Attending physician" means a licensed physician who has primary responsibility for treatment or care of the person. If more than one physician shares that responsibility, any of those physicians may act as the attending physician under the provisions of the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act;

2. "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" means those measures used to restore or support cardiac or respiratory function in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest;

3. "Do-not-resuscitate identification" means a standardized identification necklace, bracelet, or card as set forth in the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act that signifies that a do-not-resuscitate consent or order has been executed for the possessor;

4. "Do-not-resuscitate order" means an order issued by a licensed physician that cardiopulmonary resuscitation should not be administered to a particular person;

5. "Emergency medical services personnel" means firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, or other emergency services personnel, providers, or entities, acting within the usual course of their professions;

6. "Health care decision" means a decision to give, withhold, or withdraw informed consent to any type of health care including, but not limited to, medical and surgical treatments including life-prolonging interventions, nursing care, hospitalization, treatment in a nursing home or other extended care facility, home health care, and the gift or donation of a body organ or tissue;

7. "Health care agency" means an agency established to administer or provide health care services and which is commonly known by a wide variety of titles including, but not limited to, hospitals, medical centers, ambulatory health care facilities, physicians' offices and clinics, extended care facilities operated in connection with hospitals, nursing homes, extended care facilities operated in connection with rehabilitation centers, home care agencies and hospices;

8. "Health care provider" means any physician, dentist, nurse, paramedic, psychologist, or other person providing medical, dental, nursing, psychological, hospice, or other health care services of any kind;

9. "Incapacity" means the inability, because of physical or mental impairment, to appreciate the nature and implications of a health care decision, to make an informed choice regarding the alternatives presented, and to communicate that choice in an unambiguous manner; and

10. "Representative" means an attorney-in-fact for health care decisions acting pursuant to the Uniform Durable Power of Attorney Act, a health care proxy acting pursuant to the Oklahoma Rights of the Terminally Ill or Persistently Unconscious Act, or a guardian of the person appointed under the Oklahoma Guardianship and Conservatorship Act.

Added by Laws 1997, c. 327, § 3, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.