[§327K-1]  Definitions.  As used in this
chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:



"Department" means the department of
health.



"Form" means a physician orders for
life-sustaining treatment form adopted by the department.



"Health care provider" means an
individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to
provide health care in the ordinary course of the individual's business or
profession.



"Patient's physician" means a
physician licensed pursuant to chapter 453 who has examined the patient.



"Physician orders for life-sustaining
treatment form" means a form signed by a patient, or if incapacitated, by
the patient's surrogate and the patient's physician, that records the patient's
wishes and that directs a health care provider regarding the provision of
resuscitative and life-sustaining measures.  A physician orders for
life-sustaining treatment form is not an advance health-care directive.



"Surrogate" shall have the same
meaning as in section 327E-2. [L 2009, c 186, pt of §1]