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NH Rev Stat § 137-J:24 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:24 - Applicability.

    137-J:24 Applicability. –||The provisions of this subdivision apply to all persons regardless of whether or not they have completed an advance directive.|||Source. 2006, 302:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:25 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:25 - Presumed Consent to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation; Health Care Providers and Residential Care Providers Not Required to Expand to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.

    137-J:25 Presumed Consent to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation;  Health Care Providers and Residential Care Providers Not Required to Expand to Provide Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. –||I. Every person shall be presumed to consent to the administration of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the event of cardiac or respiratory arrest, unless one or more of the following conditions, of which the health care provider or residential care provider has actual knowledge, apply:||(a) A do not resuscitate order in accordance with the provisions of this chapter has been issued for that person;||(b) A completed advance directive for that person is in effect, pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, in which the person indicated a wish not to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or the principal's agent or surrogate has determined that the person would not wish to receive cardiopulmonary resuscitation;||(c) A person who lacks capacity to make health care decisions is actively dying and admitted to a health care facility, and the person's agent or surrogate is not available and the facility has made diligent efforts to contact the agent or surrogate without success, or the person's agent or surrogate is not legally capable of making health care decisions for the person, and the attending practitioner and a physician knowledgeable about the patient's condition, have determined that the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation would be contrary to accepted medical standards and would cause unnecessary harm to the person, and the attending practitioner has completed a do not resuscitate order; or||(d) A person is under treatment solely by spiritual means through prayer in accordance with the tenets and practices of a recognized church or religious denomination by a duly accredited practitioner thereof.||(e) The application of cardiopulmonary resuscitation would clearly be medically futile based on accepted medical standards. ||II. Nothing in this section shall be construed to revoke any statute, regulation, or law otherwise requiring or exempting a health care provider or residential care provider from instituting or maintaining the ability to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation or expanding its existing equipment, facilities, or personnel to provide cardiopulmonary resuscitation.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:4, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:40, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:9, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:26 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:26 - Issuance of a Do Not Resuscitate Order; Order to be Written by the Attending Practitioner.

    137-J:26 Issuance of a Do Not Resuscitate Order;  Order to be Written by the Attending Practitioner. –||I. An attending practitioner may issue a do not resuscitate order for a person if the person, or the person's agent or surrogate, has consented to the order. A do not resuscitate order shall be issued in writing in the form as described in this section for a person not present or residing in a health care facility. For persons present in health care facilities, a do not resuscitate order shall be issued in accordance with the policies and procedures of the health care facility and in accordance with the provisions of this chapter.||II. A person may request that their attending practitioner issue a do not resuscitate order for the person.||III. A do not resuscitate order written by the attending practitioner for such a person with the consent of the agent or surrogate is valid and shall be respected by health care providers and residential care providers.||IV. If an agent or surrogate is not reasonably available and the facility has made diligent efforts to contact the agent or surrogate without success, or the agent or surrogate is not legally capable of making a decision regarding a do not resuscitate order, an attending practitioner may issue a do not resuscitate order for a person who lacks capacity to make health care decisions, who is actively dying, and who is admitted to a health care facility if a second practitioner who has personally examined the person concurs in the opinion of the attending practitioner that the provision of cardiopulmonary resuscitation would be contrary to accepted medical standards and would cause unnecessary harm to the person.||V. The do not resuscitate order shall be reflected in at least one of the following forms:||(a) Forms issued in accordance with the policies and procedures of the health care facility in compliance with this chapter if applicable;||(b) A portable DNR (P-DNR); medical orders form documenting the patient's name and signed by an attending practitioner and that clearly documents the DNR order; DNR bracelet or necklace worn by a patient, and inscribed with the patient's name, date of birth (in numerical form), and "NH DNR" or "NH Do not resuscitate"; and POLST constitutes a DNR if it states "This will constitute a DNR Order, and no separate DNR Order will be required."||VI. Portable DNR and POLST (that indicates Do Not Resuscitate) forms are transferable, valid medical orders throughout this state.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:4, 5, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:41, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:9, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:27 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:27 - Compliance With a Do Not Resuscitate Order.

    137-J:27 Compliance With a Do Not Resuscitate Order. –||I. Health care providers and residential care providers shall comply with the do not resuscitate order when presented with one of the following:||(a) A do not resuscitate order or POLST that indicates Do Not Resuscitate completed by the attending practitioner on a form as specified in RSA 137-J:26;||(b) A do not resuscitate order or POLST indicating Do Not Resuscitate for a person present or residing in a health care facility issued in accordance with the health care facility's policies and procedures in compliance with the chapter; or||(c) A medical orders or POLST form on which the attending practitioner has documented a do not resuscitate order in compliance with this chapter.||(d) Do not resuscitate identification as set forth in RSA 137-J:33.||II. Pursuant to this chapter, health care providers shall respect do not resuscitate orders for persons in health care facilities, ambulances, homes, and communities within this state.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:4, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:42, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:9, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:28 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:28 - Protection of Persons Carrying Out in Good Faith a Do Not Resuscitate Order; Notification of Agent or Surrogate by Attending Practitioner Refusing to Comply With Do Not Resuscitate or POLST Order.

    137-J:28 Protection of Persons Carrying Out in Good Faith a Do Not Resuscitate Order;  Notification of Agent or Surrogate by Attending Practitioner Refusing to Comply With Do Not Resuscitate or POLST Order. –||I. No health care provider or residential care provider, or any other person acting for the provider or under the provider's control, shall be subjected to criminal or civil liability, or be deemed to have engaged in unprofessional conduct, for carrying out in good faith a do not resuscitate or POLST order authorized by this chapter on behalf of a person as instructed by the person, or the person's agent or surrogate, or for those actions taken in compliance with the standards and procedures set forth in this chapter.||II. No health care provider or residential care provider, or any other person acting for the provider or under the provider's control, or other individual who witnesses a cardiac or respiratory arrest shall be subjected to criminal or civil liability for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a person for whom a do not resuscitate order has been issued; provided, that such provider or individual:||(a) Reasonably and in good faith is unaware of the issuance of a do not resuscitate order; or||(b) Reasonably and in good faith believed that consent to the do not resuscitate order has been revoked or canceled.||III. (a) Any attending practitioner who, because of personal beliefs or conscience, refuses to issue a do not resuscitate order at a person's request or to comply with a do not resuscitate or POLST order issued pursuant to this chapter shall take reasonable steps to advise promptly the person or agent or surrogate of the person that such attending practitioner is unwilling to effectuate the order. The attending practitioner shall thereafter at the election of the person or agent or surrogate permit the person or agent or surrogate to obtain another attending practitioner.||(b) If an attending practitioner, because of the practitioner's personal beliefs or conscience, is unable to comply with the terms of a do not resuscitate or POLST order, the practitioner shall immediately inform the person, the person's agent or surrogate. The person or the person's agent or surrogate[ may then request that the case be referred to another practitioner, as set forth in RSA 137-J:7.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:4, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:43, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:9, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:29 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:29 - Revocation or Suspension of Do Not Resuscitate or POLST Order.

    137-J:29 Revocation or Suspension of Do Not Resuscitate or POLST Order. –||I. At any time a principal admitted as an inpatient or outpatient to a health care facility may revoke a do not resuscitate or POLST order by making either a written, oral, or other act of communication to the attending practitioner or other professional staff of the health care facility.||II. At any time a principal residing outside a health care facility may revoke the principal's do not resuscitate or POLST order by destroying such order and removing do not resuscitate identification on the principal's person or by making either a written, oral, or other act of communication to a healthcare provider that is present with the principal. ||III. At any time, in accordance with RSA 137-J:6, an agent or surrogate may revoke a do not resuscitate or POLST order for a principal who lacks capacity to make health care decisions who is admitted to a health care facility by making either a written, oral, or other act of communication to the attending practitioner or other professional staff at the health care facility.||IV. At any time, in accordance with RSA 137-J:6, an agent or surrogate may revoke a do not resuscitate or POLST order for a principal who lacks capacity to make health care decisions who is residing outside a health care facility by destroying such order and removing do not resuscitate identification from the principal's person, or by making either written, oral, or other act of communication to a healthcare provider that is present with the principal. The agent is responsible for notifying the person's attending practitioner of the revocation.||V. The attending practitioner who is informed of or provided with a revocation of consent pursuant to this section shall immediately cancel or suspend the do not resuscitate or POLST order in the principal's medical record if the principal is in a health care facility and notify the professional staff of the health care facility responsible for the principal's care of the revocation, suspension, or cancellation. Any professional staff of the health care facility who is informed of or provided with a revocation of consent pursuant to this section shall immediately notify the attending practitioner of such revocation.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:4, 5, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:43, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:9, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:30 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:30 - Not Suicide or Murder.

    137-J:30 Not Suicide or Murder. –||The withholding of cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a person in accordance with the provisions of this chapter shall not, for any purpose, constitute suicide or murder. The withholding of cardiopulmonary resuscitation from a person in accordance with the provisions of this chapter, however, shall not relieve any individual of responsibility for any criminal acts that may have caused the person's condition. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to legalize, constitute, condone, authorize, or approve suicide, assisted suicide, mercy killing, or euthanasia.|||Source. 2006, 302:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007. 2021, 176:10, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:31 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:31 - Interinstitutional Transfers.

    137-J:31 Interinstitutional Transfers. –||If a person with a do not resuscitate order is transferred from one health care facility to another health care facility, the health care facility initiating the transfer shall communicate the existence of a do not resuscitate order to the receiving facility prior to the transfer. The written do not resuscitate order, the do not resuscitate card as described in RSA 137-J:26, or the medical orders form shall accompany the person to the health care facility receiving the person and shall remain effective until a physician at the receiving facility issues admission orders. The do not resuscitate card or the medical orders form shall be kept as the first page in the person's transfer records.|||Source. 2006, 302:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:32 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:32 - Preservation of Existing Rights.

    137-J:32 Preservation of Existing Rights. –||I. Nothing in this chapter shall impair or supersede any legal right or legal responsibility which any person may have to effect the withholding of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in any lawful manner. In such respect, the provisions of this chapter are cumulative; provided, that this paragraph shall not be construed to authorize any violation of RSA 137-J:7.||II. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preclude a court of competent jurisdiction from approving the issuance of a do not resuscitate order under circumstances other than those under which such an order may be issued pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.|||Source. 2006, 302:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2007. 2021, 176:11, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:33 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:33 - Do Not Resuscitate Identification.

    137-J:33 Do Not Resuscitate Identification. –||Do not resuscitate identification as set forth in this chapter may consist of either a medical condition bracelet or necklace with the inscription of the person's name, date of birth in numerical form and "NH Do Not Resuscitate" or "NH DNR" on it. Such identification shall be issued only upon presentation of a properly executed do not resuscitate order form as set forth in RSA 137-J:26, a medical orders form in which a physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse has documented a do not resuscitate order, or a do not resuscitate order properly executed in accordance with a health care facility' s written policy and procedure.|||Source. 2006, 302:2. 2009, 54:5, eff. July 21, 2009. 2020, 39:44, eff. Jan. 1, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:34 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:34 - Repealed by 2021, 176:15, eff. July 30, 2021.

    137-J:34 Repealed by 2021, 176:15, eff. July 30, 2021. –|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:35 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:35 - Surrogate Decision-making.

    137-J:35 Surrogate Decision-making. –||I. When a patient lacks capacity to make health care decisions, the attending practitioner shall make a reasonable inquiry pursuant to 137-J:7 as to whether the patient has a valid durable power of attorney for health care and, to the extent that the patient has designated an agent, whether such agent is available, willing and able to act. When no health care agent is authorized and available, the health care provider shall make a reasonable inquiry as to the availability of possible surrogates listed under this paragraph. A surrogate decision-maker may make medical decisions on behalf of a patient without court order or judicial involvement in the following order of priority:||(a) The patient's spouse, or civil union partner or common law spouse as defined by RSA 457:39 if the principal were currently deceased, unless there is a divorce proceeding, separation agreement, or restraining order limiting that person's relationship with the patient.||(b) Any adult son or daughter of the patient.||(c) Either parent of the patient.||(d) Any adult brother or sister of the patient.||(e) Any adult grandchild of the patient.||(f) Any grandparent of the patient.||(g) Any adult aunt, uncle, niece, or nephew of the patient.||(h) A close friend of the patient.||(i) The agent with financial power of attorney or a conservator appointed in accordance with RSA 464-A.||(j) The guardian of the patient's estate.||II. The attending practitioner may identify a surrogate from the list in paragraph I if the attending practitioner determines the surrogate is able and willing to act, and determines after reasonable inquiry that neither a legal guardian, health care agent under a durable power of attorney for health care, nor a surrogate of higher priority is available and able and willing to act. The surrogate decision-maker, as identified by the attending practitioner, may make health care decisions for the patient, in accordance with RSA 137-J:6. The surrogacy provisions of this chapter shall take effect when the decision-maker names are recorded in the medical record. The attending practitioner shall have the right to rely on any of the above surrogates if the attending practitioner believes after reasonable inquiry that neither a health care agent under a durable power of attorney for health care or a surrogate of higher priority is available or able and willing to act.|||Source. 2014, 239:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2015. 2020, 39:45, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:12, eff. July 30, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 137-J:36 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title X - Public Health|Title 137-J - Written Directives for Medical Decision Making for Adults Without Capacity to Make Health Care Decisions|Section 137-J:36 - Determining Priority Among Multiple Surrogates.

    137-J:36 Determining Priority Among Multiple Surrogates. –||I. Where there are multiple surrogate decision-makers at the same priority level in the hierarchy, it shall be the responsibility of those surrogates to make reasonable efforts to reach a consensus as to their decision on behalf of the patient regarding any health care decision. If 2 or more surrogates who are in the same category and have equal priority indicate to the attending practitioner that they disagree about the health care decision at issue, a majority of the available persons in that category shall control, unless the minority or any other interested party initiates guardianship proceedings in accordance with RSA 464-A. There shall not be a recognized surrogate when a guardianship proceeding has been initiated and a decision is pending. The person initiating the petition for guardianship shall immediately provide written notice of the initiation of the guardianship proceeding to the health care facility where the patient is being treated. This process shall not preempt the care of the patient. No health care provider or other person shall be required to seek appointment of a guardian.||II. After a surrogate has been identified, the name, address, telephone number, and relationship of that person to the patient shall be recorded in the patient's medical record.||III. Any surrogate who becomes unavailable or unable or unwilling to act for any reason may be replaced by applying the provisions of RSA 137-J:35 in the same manner as for the initial choice of surrogate.||IV. In the event an individual of a higher priority to an identified surrogate becomes available and is willing and able to be the surrogate, the individual with higher priority may be identified as the surrogate. In the event an individual in a higher, a lower, or the same priority level or a health care provider seeks to challenge the priority or ability of the surrogate or the life-sustaining treatment decision of the recognized surrogate decision-maker, the challenging party may initiate guardianship proceedings in accordance with RSA 464-A.|||Source. 2014, 239:12, eff. Jan. 1, 2015. 2020, 39:46, eff. Jan. 1, 2021. 2021, 176:13, eff. July 30, 2021.|