2023 New York Laws › PBH - Public Health › Article 29-CCC - Nonhospital Orders Not to Resuscitate › 2994-AA - Definitions.

§  2994-aa.  Definitions.  1. "Adult" means any person who is eighteen
  years of age or older, or is the parent of a child or has married.
2. "Attending practitioner" means the physician, nurse practitioner or
  physician assistant who has primary responsibility for the treatment and
  care of the patient. Where more than one physician,  nurse  practitioner
  or  physician  assistant shares such responsibility, any such physician,
  nurse practitioner or physician  assistant  may  act  as  the  attending
  practitioner pursuant to this article.
2-a.  "Attending  nurse practitioner" means the nurse practitioner who
  has primary responsibility for the treatment and care  of  the  patient.
  Where  more  than  one  physician  and/or nurse practitioner shares such
  responsibility, any such physician or nurse practitioner may act as  the
  attending  physician  or  attending  nurse practitioner pursuant to this
  article.
3. "Capacity" means the  ability  to  understand  and  appreciate  the
  nature  and  consequences  of  a  nonhospital  order not to resuscitate,
  including the benefits and disadvantages of such an order, and to  reach
  an informed decision regarding the order.
4.  "Cardiopulmonary  resuscitation"  means  measures, as specified in
  regulations promulgated by the commissioner, to restore cardiac function
  or to support ventilation in the  event  of  a  cardiac  or  respiratory
  arrest.  Such term shall not include measures to improve ventilation and
  cardiac function in the absence of an arrest.
5. "Emergency medical services personnel" means  the  personnel  of  a
  service  or  agency  engaged  in  providing  initial  emergency  medical
  assistance, including but not limited  to  first  responders,  emergency
  medical   technicians,   advanced   emergency  medical  technicians  and
  personnel engaged in providing health care at  correctional  facilities,
  as  that  term  is  defined  in  subdivision  four of section two of the
  correction law.
6. "Health care agent" means  a  health  care  agent  of  the  patient
  designated pursuant to article twenty-nine-C of this chapter.
7.  "Health  or  social  services  practitioner"  means  a  registered
  professional nurse, nurse practitioner, physician, physician  assistant,
  psychologist  or  certified,  licensed  master social worker or licensed
  clinical social worker, licensed or certified pursuant to the  education
  law, acting within his or her scope of practice.
8.  "Home care services agency" means an entity certified, licensed or
  exempt under article thirty-six of this chapter.
9. "Hospice" means a hospice as  defined  in  article  forty  of  this
  chapter.
10.  "Hospital" means a general hospital as defined in subdivision ten
  of section twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter  and  a  residential
  health  care  facility  as  defined  in  subdivision  three  of  section
  twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter or a  hospital  as  defined  in
  subdivision  ten  of  section  1.03  of  the  mental  hygiene  law  or a
  developmental disabilities services office named in section 13.17 of the
  mental hygiene law.
11. "Hospital emergency services personnel" means the personnel of the
  emergency service of a general hospital, as defined in  subdivision  ten
  of  section  twenty-eight hundred one of this chapter, including but not
  limited to emergency services attending physicians,  emergency  services
  registered  professional  nurses,  and  registered  professional nurses,
  nursing staff  and  registered  physician  assistants  assigned  to  the
  general hospital's emergency service.
12. "Mental hygiene facility" means a residential facility operated or
  licensed  by  the  office of mental health or the office for people with
  developmental disabilities.
13. "Nonhospital order not to resuscitate" means an order that directs
  emergency medical services personnel,  hospice  personnel  and  hospital
  emergency    services   personnel   not   to   attempt   cardiopulmonary
  resuscitation in the event a  patient  suffers  cardiac  or  respiratory
  arrest.
13-a.  "Nurse  practitioner"  means  a  nurse  practitioner  certified
  pursuant to section sixty-nine hundred ten of the education law  who  is
  practicing  in  accordance  with subdivision three of section sixty-nine
  hundred two of the education law.
14. "Patient" means a person who has been  or  who  may  be  issued  a
  nonhospital order not to resuscitate.
15.  "Surrogate"  means  a  person  authorized  to  make a health care
  decision on behalf of a patient pursuant to  article  twenty-nine-CC  of
  this chapter.