39-4512C. DUTY TO INSPECT. Health care providers and emergency medical services personnel shall make reasonable efforts to inquire as to whether the patient has completed a physician orders for scope of treatment (POST) form and inspect the patient for a POST identification device when presented with a situation calling for artificial life-sustaining treatment not caused by severe trauma or involving mass casualties and with no indication of homicide or suicide.
History:
[39-4512C, added 2007, ch. 196, sec. 15, p. 591.]
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.