New Mexico Administrative Code › Title 7 - HEALTH › Chapter 27 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES › Part 6 - EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ADVANCE DIRECTIVES › Section 7.27.6.7 - DEFINITIONS

Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 13, July 16, 2024
A.
"Advance
				directive"
means a written instruction, such as a living will, durable
				power of attorney for health care or emergency medical services do not
				resuscitate form recognizable under state law and relating to the provision of
				health care when an individual is incapacitated.
B.
"Advanced Practice Nurse"
means a registered nurse who has completed the required education and training
				and received state of New Mexico approval to practice as a certified nurse
				midwife or advanced practice registered nurse.
C.
"Authorized health care decision
				maker"
means a person authorized under a durable power of attorney to
				make health care decisions on behalf of another, a court-appointed guardian or
				the parent of a minor or any other person authorized by law to make health care
				decisions for another.
D.
"Bureau"
means the emergency medical systems bureau of the
				epidemiology and response division of the department.
E.
"Capacity"
means an
				individual's ability to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences
				of proposed health care, including its significant benefits, risks and
				alternatives to proposed health care and to make and communicate an informed
				health-care decision.
F.
"Designee"
means a registered nurse, social worker, or other
				person who is designated and authorized by a physician, advanced practice
				nurse, or physician assistant to explain an EMS DNR order to a person who may
				execute the order.
G.
"Durable power of attorney"
means a document executed according to
				the provisions of Sections
				45-5-501
				through
				45-5-502 NMSA
				1978 of the New Mexico Probate Code, which designates an individual to make
				health care decisions for the person executing the document, or an advance
				health-care directive executed according to the provisions of Sections
				24-7A-1
				through
				24-7A-18
				NMSA 1978 of the New Mexico Uniform Health-Care Decisions Act, which designates
				an agent or surrogate to make health care decisions for an
				individual.
H.
"Emergency
				medical services (EMS)"
means the services rendered by emergency medical
				technicians or certified emergency medical services first responders in
				response to an individual's need for immediate medical care to prevent loss of
				life or aggravation of physical or psychological illness or injury.
I.
"EMS bracelet"
means a
				bracelet, medallion or some other item of personal wear, approved by the bureau
				for indicating in a standard, readily-recognizable manner that the person has
				executed an EMS DNR order.
J.
"EMS do not resuscitate (DNR) order"
means an order issued by a
				physician, advanced practice nurse, or physician's assistant, and signed by the
				person or authorized health care decision maker, on a form approved by the
				bureau, indicating that resuscitative measures should not be
				performed.
K.
"EMS
				personnel"
means persons currently licensed or certified by the bureau
				to practice as emergency medical technicians (EMTs) or emergency medical
				services first responders in New Mexico.
L.
"Medical control"
means
				supervision provided by or under the direction of physicians to EMS personnel
				by written protocol or direct communications.
M.
"New Mexico Medical Orders for Scope
				of Treatment (MOST) form"
is a bureau approved advanced healthcare
				directive/healthcare decision that may be used either in conjunction with or as
				an alternative to the EMS DNR order; it must be signed by a physician, advanced
				practice nurse, or physician's assistant and by the patient or patient's
				healthcare decision maker.
N.
"Physician"
means a doctor of medicine or doctor of osteopathy
				licensed or otherwise authorized to practice medicine or osteopathic
				medicine.
O.
"Physician's
				Assistant (PA)"
means a person who has received the education, training
				and approval from the State of New Mexico to practice as a PA in New
				Mexico
P.
"Pre-hospital
				setting"
means any setting outside of a hospital where EMS personnel are
				called for assistance, including but not limited to long term care facilities,
				private homes or during transport.