Sec. 5672.

(1) "Actual notice" includes the physical presentation of a POST form or a revoked POST form, or the electronic transmission of a POST form or a revoked POST form if the recipient of the form sends an electronic confirmation to the patient, patient representative, or attending health professional, who sent the electronic transmission, indicating that the POST form or revoked POST form has been received. Actual notice also includes knowledge of a patient's intent to revoke the POST form by a health professional who is treating the patient, by an attending health professional, or by emergency medical services personnel.

(2) "Adult foster care facility" means that term as defined in section 3 of the adult foster care facility licensing act, 1979 PA 218, MCL 400.703.

(3) "Advanced illness" means a medical or surgical condition with significant functional impairment that is not reversible by curative therapies and that is anticipated to progress toward death despite attempts at curative therapies or modulation.

(4) "Attending health professional" means a physician, physician's assistant, or certified nurse practitioner, who has primary responsibility for the treatment of a patient and is authorized to issue the medical orders on a POST form.

(5) "Certified nurse practitioner" means an individual licensed as a registered professional nurse under part 172 who has been issued a specialty certification as a nurse practitioner by the Michigan board of nursing under section 17210.

History: Add. 2017, Act 154, Eff. Feb. 6, 2018 Popular Name: Act 368