§ 439.800 Definitions
§ 439.802 ‘Facility-acquired infection’ defined
§ 439.803 ‘Health facility’ defined
§ 439.805 ‘Medical facility’ defined
§ 439.810 ‘Patient’ defined
§ 439.815 ‘Patient safety officer’ defined
§ 439.820 ‘Provider of health care’ defined
§ 439.830 ‘Sentinel event’ defined
§ 439.835 Mandatory reporting of sentinel events
§ 439.837 Mandatory investigation of sentinel event by health facility; exceptions
§ 439.840 Reports of sentinel events: Duties of Division; confidentiality
§ 439.841 Authority of Division to request additional information or to conduct audit or investigation; report of findings; payment of costs
§ 439.843 Annual summaries of reports of sentinel events; compilation by Division; confidentiality; posting of patient safety plans by Department on Internet website
§ 439.845 Analysis and reporting of trends regarding sentinel events; treatment of certain information regarding corrective action by health facility
§ 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
§ 439.855 Notification of patients involved in sentinel events
§ 439.856 Provision of certain information relating to facility-acquired infections to patients
§ 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
§ 439.860 Inadmissibility of certain information in administrative or legal proceeding
§ 439.865 Patient safety plan: Development; inclusion of infection control program to prevent and control infections; approval; notice; compliance; annual review and update
§ 439.870 Patient safety officer: Designation; duties
§ 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
§ 439.875 Patient safety committee: Establishment; composition; meetings; duties; proceedings and records are privileged
§ 439.877 Patient safety checklists and patient safety policies: Adoption by patient safety committee; required provisions; duties of patient safety committee
§ 439.880 Immunity from criminal and civil liability
§ 439.885 Violation by health facility: Administrative sanction prohibited when voluntarily reported; administrative sanction imposed when not voluntarily reported; appeal of imposition of sanction; accounting and expenditure of money
§ 439.890 Adoption of regulations

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 439 > Health and Safety of Patients At Certain Health Facilities

  • Administrator: means the Administrator of the Division. See Nevada Revised Statutes 439.005
  • Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Department: means the Department of Health and Human Services. See Nevada Revised Statutes 439.005
  • Director: means the Director of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 439.005
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Division: means the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department. See Nevada Revised Statutes 439.005
  • Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.