The provisions of NRS 450B.400 to 450B.590, inclusive, do not:
1. Require a physician or other provider of health care to take action contrary to reasonable medical standards;
2. Condone, authorize or approve mercy killing, euthanasia or assisted suicide;
3. Substitute for any other legally authorized procedure by which a person may direct that the person not be resuscitated in the event of a cardiac or respiratory arrest;
4. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 449A.557, affect or impair any right created pursuant to the provisions of NRS 449A.400 to 449A.481, inclusive, or 449A.500 to 449A.581, inclusive; or
5. Affect the right of a qualified patient to make decisions concerning the use of life-resuscitating treatment, if he or she is able to do so, or impair or supersede a right or responsibility of a person to affect the withholding of medical care in a lawful manner.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 291; A 2013, 2292; 2017, 1773)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 450B - Emergency Medical Services
NRS 450B.015 - Legislative declaration.
NRS 450B.025 - "Advanced emergency medical technician" defined.
NRS 450B.030 - "Air ambulance" defined.
NRS 450B.040 - "Ambulance" defined.
NRS 450B.050 - "Attendant" defined.
NRS 450B.0505 - "Automated external defibrillator" and "defibrillator" defined.
NRS 450B.060 - "Board" defined.
NRS 450B.0605 - "Certificate" defined.
NRS 450B.061 - "Committee" defined.
NRS 450B.0615 - "Community paramedicine services" defined.
NRS 450B.062 - "Designated officer" defined.
NRS 450B.0625 - "Division" defined.
NRS 450B.063 - "Emergency medical dispatcher" defined.
NRS 450B.064 - "Emergency medical services registered nurse" defined.
NRS 450B.065 - "Emergency medical technician" defined.
NRS 450B.0703 - "Emergency response employee" defined.
NRS 450B.0707 - "Exposed" and "exposure" defined.
NRS 450B.071 - "Firefighter" defined.
NRS 450B.072 - "Fire-fighting agency" defined.
NRS 450B.077 - "Health authority" defined.
NRS 450B.082 - "Health officer" defined.
NRS 450B.083 - "Infectious disease" defined.
NRS 450B.090 - "License" defined.
NRS 450B.095 - "Paramedic" defined.
NRS 450B.100 - "Permit" defined.
NRS 450B.105 - "Trauma" defined.
NRS 450B.110 - "Volunteer attendant" defined.
NRS 450B.120 - Regulations, standards and procedures of board.
NRS 450B.130 - Establishment of minimum standards and additional requirements.
NRS 450B.140 - Sources for standards and regulations; standards may differ for different categories.
NRS 450B.150 - Administration and enforcement; inspections.
NRS 450B.151 - Creation; membership; terms of members; alternate members; vacancies.
NRS 450B.152 - Chair; meetings; rules for management; compensation of members.
NRS 450B.154 - Administrative support.
NRS 450B.155 - Training and certification.
NRS 450B.171 - Relative of patient or other person may ride with attendants.
NRS 450B.190 - Provisional licensing of attendants.
NRS 450B.1905 - Program of training for certification; maintenance of certification.
NRS 450B.1915 - Authorized activities of advanced emergency medical technician.
NRS 450B.199 - "Emergency medical provider" defined.
NRS 450B.210 - Provisional permit.
NRS 450B.220 - Periodic inspections.
NRS 450B.230 - Owner not to allow operation without required equipment; exception.
NRS 450B.235 - Filing and maintenance of schedule of rates of ambulance.
NRS 450B.236 - Approval required for operation of center for treatment of trauma.
NRS 450B.238 - Regulations requiring hospital to record and maintain information.
NRS 450B.239 - Division to cooperate with American College of Surgeons.
NRS 450B.370 - Response of medical facility or county coroner or medical examiner.
NRS 450B.380 - Notice to emergency response employee of possible exposure to infectious disease.
NRS 450B.390 - Limitations on effect of NRS 450B.340 to 450B.390, inclusive.
NRS 450B.402 - "Advanced practice registered nurse" defined.
NRS 450B.404 - "Attending advanced practice registered nurse" defined.
NRS 450B.405 - "Attending physician" defined.
NRS 450B.410 - "Do-not-resuscitate identification" defined.
NRS 450B.420 - "Do-not-resuscitate order" defined.
NRS 450B.430 - "Do-not-resuscitate protocol" defined.
NRS 450B.440 - "Health care facility" defined.
NRS 450B.450 - "Life-resuscitating treatment" defined.
NRS 450B.460 - "Person who administers emergency medical services" defined.
NRS 450B.470 - "Qualified patient" defined.
NRS 450B.475 - "Terminal condition" defined.
NRS 450B.490 - Adoption of regulations; fee for do-not-resuscitate identification.
NRS 450B.500 - Do-not-resuscitate identification: Contents.
NRS 450B.505 - Do-not-resuscitate identification: Manufacture and issuance of bracelet or medallion.
NRS 450B.520 - Application for do-not-resuscitate identification: Form; requirements.
NRS 450B.530 - Revocation of authorization to withhold life-resuscitating treatment.
NRS 450B.560 - Assumption that do-not-resuscitate identification is valid.
NRS 450B.580 - Unlawful acts; penalty.
NRS 450B.590 - Limitations on effect of provisions.
NRS 450B.655 - "Dedicated advanced life support ambulance" defined.
NRS 450B.660 - "First-aid station" defined.
NRS 450B.665 - "Host organization" defined.
NRS 450B.670 - "Roving emergency medical technician team" defined.
NRS 450B.675 - "Roving intermediate emergency medical technician team" defined.
NRS 450B.680 - "Significant number" defined.
NRS 450B.685 - "Special event" defined.
NRS 450B.710 - "Authorized entity" defined.
NRS 450B.800 - Fingerprints of applicant.
NRS 450B.810 - Maintenance, inspection and compilation of information.
NRS 450B.820 - Local requirements for franchise or permit are not superseded.
NRS 450B.830 - Exemptions from chapter.