Section 290:1-b Pronouncement of Death by Registered Nurses. - New Hampshire Statutes

If an anticipated death occurs in a hospital, a nursing home, a private home served by a home health care provider licensed under RSA 151, an assisted living residence as defined in RSA 161-J:2, II, or a hospice, the registered nurse attending at the last sickness may pronounce the person dead and release the body to the funeral director, next-of-kin as defined in RSA 290:16, IV, or designated agent after certifying the fact of death and completing the death record by hand or other approved electronic process. If a contagious disease is known to be present at the time of death, that fact shall be indicated on the death record in accordance with RSA 5-C:62.

Source. 1986, 26:1. 1989, 10:1. 1995, 310:181, eff. Nov. 1, 1995. 1997, 325:10, eff. Aug. 22, 1997. 1999, 62:2, eff. Oct. 10, 2000. 2003, 319:66, eff. July 1, 2003. 2005, 268:7, eff. Jan. 1, 2006. 2007, 90:6, eff. June 11, 2007.