A. No health care provider, health care agency, or individual employed by, acting as the agent of, or under contract with any such health care provider, health care agency, or individual shall be subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability, or discipline for unprofessional conduct for carrying out in good faith a do-not-resuscitate consent or order authorized by the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act on behalf of a person as instructed by the person or representative or for those actions taken in compliance with the standards and procedures set forth in the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act.
B. No health care provider, health care agency, individual employed by, acting as agent of, or under contract with any such health care provider, health care agency or individual or other individual who witnesses a cardiac or respiratory arrest shall be subject to criminal prosecution, civil liability or discipline for unprofessional conduct for providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation to a person for whom a do-not-resuscitate consent or order has been issued; provided, that such individual:
1. Reasonably and in good faith was unaware of the issuance of a do-not-resuscitate consent or order; or
2. Reasonably and in good faith believed that consent to a do- not-resuscitate order had been revoked or canceled.
C. Any physician who refuses to issue a do-not-resuscitate order at a person's request or any health care provider or health care agency who refuses to comply with a do-not-resuscitate consent or order entered pursuant to the Oklahoma Do-Not-Resuscitate Act shall take reasonable steps to advise the person or representative of the person promptly that the physician is unwilling to effectuate the consent or order and shall as promptly as practicable take all reasonable steps to arrange care of the person by another physician or health care provider.
Added by Laws 1997, c. 327, § 8, eff. Nov. 1, 1997.
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