39-4508 RESPONSIBILITY FOR CONSENT AND DOCUMENTATION. - Idaho Statutes

TITLE 39

HEALTH AND SAFETY

CHAPTER 45

THE MEDICAL CONSENT AND NATURAL DEATH ACT

39-4508. Responsibility for consent and documentation. Obtaining consent for health care is the duty of the attending physician or dentist or of another physician or dentist acting on his or her behalf or actually providing the contemplated care, treatment or procedure; provided however, a licensed hospital and any medical or dental office employee, acting with the approval of such an attending or other physician or dentist, 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 patient. In performing such a ministerial act, the hospital or medical or dental office employee shall not be deemed to have engaged in the practice of medicine or dentistry.