Declaration to your physician to withhold of withdraw life-sustaining treatment only authorizes your doctor to withhold certain types of treatment
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Nevada law (NRS 449.610) allows you as a patient to sign a Declaration to your physician to withhold of withdraw life-sustaining treatment. Executing such document you allow your doctor to make health care decisions |
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Directive To Physician In Nevada VS. Nevada Health Care Directive to Physician (Equivalent of Living Will Declaration) 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 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 declaration 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. In the Nevada Health Care Directive to Physician (Living Will) you may address other important health care issues such as: cardiac resuscitation, artificial nutrition and hydration, comfort care and relief from pain, organ donation, or state your personal values with regards to the end of life decisions. 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 something you do not understand about this document you should consult an attorney. Before signing this Nevada Declaration to your physician to withhold of withdraw life-sustaining treatment or Health Care Directive to Physician you need to discuss your treatment with your physician in as many details as possible, and consider types of treatments that you want/do not want to be performed for you when you are unable to express your wishes because of your illness. Please make sure to state clearly particular treatments you want or do not want. |
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