HEALTH AND SAFETY OF PATIENTS AT CERTAIN MEDICAL FACILITIES  


NRS 439.800. Definitions.
NRS 439.802. “Facility-acquired infection” defined.
NRS 439.805. “Medical facility” defined.
NRS 439.810. “Patient” defined.
NRS 439.815. “Patient safety officer” defined.
NRS 439.820. “Provider of health care” defined.
NRS 439.830. “Sentinel event” defined.
NRS 439.835. Mandatory reporting of sentinel events.
NRS 439.837. Mandatory investigation of sentinel event by medical facility.
NRS 439.840. Reports of sentinel events: Duties of Division; confidentiality.
NRS 439.841. Authority of Division to request additional information or to conduct audit or investigation; report of findings; payment of costs.
NRS 439.843. Annual summaries of reports of sentinel events; compilation by Division; confidentiality; posting of patient safety plans by Department on Internet website.
NRS 439.845. Analysis and reporting of trends regarding sentinel events; treatment of certain information regarding corrective action by medical facility.
NRS 439.847. Participation in surveillance system by medical facilities and facilities for skilled nursing; access, analysis and reporting of information submitted to surveillance system by Division; regulations.
NRS 439.855. Notification of patients involved in sentinel events.
NRS 439.856. Provision of certain information relating to facility-acquired infections to patients.
NRS 439.857. Procedure for informing patient, legal guardian or other person that patient at medical facility has infection; immunity from liability for providing certain information.
NRS 439.860. Inadmissibility of certain information in administrative or legal proceeding.
NRS 439.865. Patient safety plan: Development; inclusion of infection control program to prevent and control infections; approval; notice; compliance; annual review and update.
NRS 439.870. Patient safety officer: Designation; duties.
NRS 439.873. Designation, duties and qualifications of infection control officer; required ratio of patients to employees with certain training in infection control; Division to provide education and technical assistance.
NRS 439.875. Patient safety committee: Establishment; composition; meetings; duties; proceedings and records are privileged.
NRS 439.877. Patient safety checklists and patient safety policies: Adoption by patient safety committee; required provisions; duties of patient safety committee.
NRS 439.880. Immunity from criminal and civil liability.
NRS 439.885. Violation by medical facility: Administrative sanction prohibited when voluntarily reported; administrative sanction imposed when not voluntarily reported; appeal of imposition of sanction; accounting and expenditure of money.
NRS 439.890. Adoption of regulations.