39-4508. RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONSENT AND DOCUMENTATION. Obtaining sufficient consent for health care is the duty of the attending health care provider upon whose order or at whose direction the contemplated health care, treatment or procedure is rendered; provided however, a licensed hospital and any employee of a health care provider, acting with the approval of such an attending or other individual health care provider, may perform the ministerial act of documenting such consent by securing the completion and execution of a form or statement in which the giving of consent for such care is documented by or on behalf of the person. In performing such a ministerial act, the hospital or health care provider employee shall not be deemed to have engaged in the practice of medicine or dentistry.
History:
[(39-4508) 39-4507, added 2005, ch. 120, sec. 2, p. 383; am. and redesig. 2007, ch. 196, sec. 8, p. 583; am. 2012, ch. 302, sec. 6, p. 828.]
Structure Idaho Code
Chapter 45 - THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT
Section 39-4501 - PURPOSES — APPLICATION.
Section 39-4502 - DEFINITIONS.
Section 39-4503 - PERSONS WHO MAY CONSENT TO THEIR OWN CARE.
Section 39-4504 - PERSONS WHO MAY GIVE CONSENT TO CARE FOR OTHERS.
Section 39-4505 - BLOOD TESTING.
Section 39-4506 - SUFFICIENCY OF CONSENT.
Section 39-4507 - FORM OF CONSENT.
Section 39-4508 - RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONSENT AND DOCUMENTATION.
Section 39-4509 - STATEMENT OF POLICY — DEFINITION.
Section 39-4510 - LIVING WILL AND DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE.
Section 39-4511A - REVOCATION OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE.
Section 39-4511B - SUSPENSION OF ADVANCE DIRECTIVE.
Section 39-4512 - EXECUTION OF LIVING WILL AND DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE.
Section 39-4512A - PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT (POST).
Section 39-4512B - ADHERENCE TO PHYSICIAN ORDERS FOR SCOPE OF TREATMENT (POST) PROTOCOL.
Section 39-4512C - DUTY TO INSPECT.
Section 39-4514 - GENERAL PROVISIONS.
Section 39-4515 - HEALTH CARE DIRECTIVE REGISTRY.
Section 39-4516 - LIFE-SUSTAINING TREATMENT FOR UNEMANCIPATED MINORS.