Rule 3701-62-14 | Prohibitions.
(A) No physician, APRN or PA shall purposely prevent or attempt to prevent, or delay or unreasonably attempt to delay, the transfer of a patient in violation of division (B) of section 2133.23 of the Revised Code and rule 3701-62-08 of the Administrative Code.
(B) No person shall purposely conceal, cancel, deface, or obliterate the DNR identification of another person without the consent of the other person.
(C) No person shall purposely falsify or forge a revocation of a declaration that is the basis of the DNR identification of another person or purposely falsify or forge an order of an authorized health care provider that purports to supersede a do-not-resuscitate order issued for another person.
(D) No person shall purposely falsify or forge the DNR identification of another person with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of CPR for the other person.
(E) No person who has personal knowledge that another person has revoked a declaration that is the basis of the other person's DNR identification or personal knowledge that an authorized health care provider has issued an order that supersedes a do-not-resuscitate order that the authorized health care provider issued for another person shall purposely conceal or withhold that personal knowledge with the intent to cause the use, withholding, or withdrawal of CPR for the other person.
(F) No person shall purposely conceal, cancel, deface, or obliterate a valid DNR order of another person without the consent of the other person.
(G) Pursuant to section 2133.26 of the Revised Code, whoever violates paragraph (A) or (E) of this rule is guilty of a misdemeanor of the third degree. Whoever violates paragraph (B), (C), or (D) of this rule is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree.
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