Nevada law allows any competent adult may execute a document, known as living will or directive to physician in Nevada, directing that life-sustaining procedures be withheld or withdrawn
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Nevada Advance Health Care Directive. It is not mandatory that you have health care directive, however it is highly recommended. Without advance directive you can not communicate your wishes to the doctor |
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NEVADA DURABLE POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR HEALTH CARE DECISIONS Any adult person may execute a power of attorney for a disabled principal enabling the attorney in fact named in the power of attorney to make decisions concerning health care for the principal who executed the power of attorney if that principal becomes incapable of giving informed consent concerning such decisions. Durable Power of Attorney in Nevada is governed by Nevada Revised Statutes paragraphs 449.800 449.860A principal may not name as attorney in fact in a power of attorney for health care:
The form of a power of attorney for a disabled principal must be in substantially the statutory form. The principal's signature on the power of attorney must:
An attorney in fact must make decisions concerning the use or nonuse of life sustaining treatment which conform to the known desires of the principal. The principal may make these desires known in the power of attorney. A principal may designate an alternate attorney in fact. If a principal designates his spouse as the attorney in fact or as an alternate, that designation is automatically revoked if the principal and his spouse are divorced. Execution of a power of attorney automatically revokes any previous power of attorney. A health care power of attorney remains valid indefinitely until it is revoked, or the Principal designated a shorter period for which it is to remain valid. LIVING WILL, OR DIRECTIVE TO PHYSICIAN IN NEVADA Nevada law (NRS 449.610) allows you as a patient to sign a Declaration to your physician to withhold of withdraw life-sustaining treatment. If you execute such a document your designated doctor will make decisions with regards to withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment.You may also delegate such a delicate duty to your attorney in fact in your Health Care power of attorney. While in the Declaration to your physician to withhold of withdraw life-sustaining treatment you ONLY authorize your doctor to withhold certain types of treatment, in the Nevada Health Care Directive to Physician (Living Will) you may address other important health care issues such as: cardiac resuscitation, organ donation, or state your personal values with regards to the end of life decisions. A person of sound mind and 18 or more years of age may execute a living will declaration (Nevada Health Care Directive to Physician) governing the withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining treatment and may designate another natural person of sound mind and 18 or more years of age to make decisions governing the withholding or withdrawal of life sustaining treatment. The declaration must be signed by the declarant, or another at the declarant's direction, and attested by two witnesses OR acknowledged by a Notary Public. A living will declaration becomes operative when it is communicated to the attending physician and the declarant is determined by the attending physician to be in a terminal condition and no longer able to make decisions regarding administration of life sustaining treatment. When the living will declaration becomes operative, the attending physician and other providers of health care shall act in accordance with its provisions and with the instructions of a person designated pursuant to NRS 449.600 to make decisions for the patient. A living will declaration is not required to be in the statutory form. A declarant may revoke a Health Care Directive to Physician at any time and in any manner, without regard to his mental or physical condition. A revocation is effective upon its communication to the attending physician or other provider of health care by the declarant or a witness to the revocation. An attending physician or other provider of health care shall make the revocation a part of the declarant's medical record. Consent by others: The authority to consent or to withhold consent may be exercised by the following persons, in order of priority:
If there is anything about this form that you do not understand, you should ask a lawyer to explain it to you. |
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