N.Y. PBH Law § 2994-AA — New York Code / Act PBH / Article 29-CCC / Section 2994-AA
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§ 2994-aa. Definitions. 1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen\nyears of age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married.\n  2. "Attending practitioner" means the physician, nurse practitioner or\nphysician assistant who has primary responsibility for the treatment and\ncare of the patient. Where more than one physician, nurse practitioner\nor physician assistant shares such responsibility, any such physician,\nnurse practitioner or physician assistant may act as the attending\npractitioner pursuant to this article.\n  2-a. "Attending nurse practitioner" means the nurse practitioner who\nhas primary responsibility for the treatment and care of the patient.\nWhere more than one physician and/or nurse practitioner shares such\nresponsibility, any such physician or nurse practitioner may act as the\nattending physician or attending nurse practitioner pursuant to this\narticle.\n  3. "Capacity" means the ability to understand and appreciate the\nnature and consequences of a nonhospital order not to resuscitate,\nincluding the benefits and disadvantages of such an order, and to reach\nan informed decision regarding the order.\n  4. "Cardiopulmonary resuscitation" means measures, as specified in\nregulations promulgated by the commissioner, to restore cardiac function\nor to support ventilation in the event of a cardiac or respiratory\narrest. Such term shall not include measures to improve ventilation and\ncardiac function in the absence of an arrest.\n  5. "Emergency medical services personnel" means the personnel of a\nservice or agency engaged in providing initial emergency medical\nassistance, including but not limited to first responders, emergency\nmedical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians and\npersonnel engaged in providing health care at correctional facilities,\nas that term is defined in subdivision four of section two of the\ncorrection law.\n  6. "Health care agent" means a health care agent of the patient\ndesignated pursuant to article twenty-nine-C of this chapter.\n  7. "Health or social services practitioner" means a registered\nprofessional nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, physician assistant,\npsychologist or certified, licensed master social worker or licensed\nclinical social worker, licensed or certified pursuant to the education\nlaw, acting within his or her scope of practice.\n  8. "Home care services agency" means an entity certified, licensed or\nexempt under article thirty-six of this chapter.\n  9. "Hospice" means a hospice as defined in article forty of this\nchapter.\n  10. "Hospital" means a general hospital as defined in subdivision ten\nof section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter and a residential\nhealth care facility as defined in subdivision three of section\ntwenty-eight hundred one of this chapter or a hospital as defined in\nsubdivision ten of section 1.03 of the mental hygiene law or a\ndevelopmental disabilities services office named in section 13.17 of the\nmental hygiene law.\n  11. "Hospital emergency services personnel" means the personnel of the\nemergency service of a general hospital, as defined in subdivision ten\nof section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, including but not\nlimited to emergency services attending physicians, emergency services\nregistered professional nurses, and registered professional nurses,\nnursing staff and registered physician assistants assigned to the\ngeneral hospital's emergency service.\n  13. "Nonhospital order not to resuscitate" means an order that directs\nemergency medical services personnel, hospice personnel, home care\nservices agency personnel and hospital emergency services personnel not\nto attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event a patient suffers\ncardiac or respiratory arrest.\n  13-a. "Nurse practitioner" means a nurse practitioner certified\npursuant to section sixty-nine hundred ten of the education law who is\npracticing in accordance with subdivision three of section sixty-nine\nhundred two of the education law.\n  14. "Patient" means a person who has been or who may be issued a\nnonhospital order not to resuscitate.\n  15. "Surrogate" means a person authorized to make a health care\ndecision on behalf of a patient pursuant to article twenty-nine-CC of\nthis chapter.\n