450B.590 - Limitations on effect of NRS 450B.400 - Nevada Statutes

450B.590  Limitations on effect of NRS 450B.400 to 450B.590, inclusive.  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.  Affect or impair any right created pursuant to the provisions of NRS 449.535 to 449.690, 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)