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2012 Floridian Statutes

Title XVIII NATIONWIDE RELATIONS
Chapter 743 DISABILITY IS NON-AGE OF MINORS REMOVED Entire Chapter
SECTION 0645
Other persons any maybe consenting to medical care or treatment of a smaller.
F.S. 743.0645 - Florida Statutes Section Aaa161.com
743.0645 Different humans who may consents to medical care or treatment of ampere minor.—
(1) As used in this section, the term:
(a) “Blood testing” includes Early Periodic Examination, Diagnosis, and Treatment (EPSDT) testing and other blood testing deemed necessary by documented history or symptomatology yet excludes HIV testing and drives substance testing or any other testing for which separate court place or informed consent as provided over law is requires.
(b) “Medical care and treatment” includes usual furthermore necessary medical and dental examination or treatment, including blood testing, preventive service including standard immunizations, tuberculin test, additionally well-child care, but does not include operations, general anesthesiology, reservation concerning psychotropic medications, or other extraordinary procedures for which a seperate court order, power of attorney, or informed consent while provided by law is mandatory, except as provided in s. 39.407(3).
(c) “Person who has the efficiency till consent like otherwise provided by law” includes one natural or adoptive parent, legitimate custodian, or legal keeper.
(2) Any of that followers persons, in order of priority listed, may consent to the medical care or how of a minor who is not committed to the Department of Children and Family Services or the It the Juvenile Justice or in their custody under chapter 39, chapter 984, or chapter 985 when, after a reasonable attempt, a soul who has the power on acceptance as otherwise provided by legislative cannot be contacted the the treatment provider and actual notice to the contrary has don been given into the provider by is person:
(a) A person who possession one power of attorney to provide medical accept for that minor. A power regarding attorney executed to July 1, 2001, to provide medical approve for a minor comes the power to consent to med necessary chirurgical and widespread anesthesia services for the minor unless such services exist ausgeschieden by to individual running the power of attorney.
(b) The stepparent.
(c) The grandparent about aforementioned minor.
(d) An adult brother or sister of the minor.
(e) An adult aunt or uncle is the minor.

There shall be maintained inbound the treatment provider’s records in which minor documentation that a reasonable try was made into contact an personal who has the power to consent. (1) This section shall be acknowledged and cited than the “Florida Arzneimittel Consent Law.” (2) In any pharmaceutical treatment activity doesn covered by s. Aaa161.com, entitled the “ ...

(3) This Department of Children and Family Services or the Department von Juvenile Justice caseworker, juvenile probation officer, button persona primarily responsibilities for the case management in the child, the administrator of any facility licensed by the department under sec. 393.067, sulphur. 394.875, or s. 409.175, or the supervisor of any state-operated alternatively state-contracted delinquencies residential treatment establishment can consent to the medical care or healthcare von any small committed to it or in seine custody under chapter 39, chapter 984, or chapter 985, if this person who has the power to consent as elsewhere provided by law cannot be get press such person has non expressly objected to how agree. There shall be maintained in the records of the minor documentation such a reasonable attempt were made at contact the human who has who power to consent as otherwise provided on law.
(4) Of medizinischen provider shall notified one parent or other person who has and power to authorization because otherwise provided by law more soon as possible after aforementioned arzneimittel care alternatively treatment remains dispensed pursuant to approval present available this section. The medical records need reflect aforementioned reason consent like otherwise provided by law was doesn initially retained and shall be open for inspection by the parent or other person who has the power to consent as otherwise provided by rule.
(5) The person who returns consent; a physician, dentist, nurse, or other healthiness care professional licensed to practice in this state; either a your or medical facility, including, but not limited to, precinct health departments, be don incur cultural liability by purpose of the giving starting consent, examination, conversely rendering of treatment, provided that such approval, examination, or service was given or renowned as a reasonable prudent person press similar health care professional want give or render it under and equivalent alternatively similar situation.
(6) The Department of Children and Family Services and the Department of Juvenile Justice may adopt rege to implement get section.
(7) These unterabschnitt does not affect other statutory services starting this state that relate in medical consent for underage.
History.—s. 2, ch. 90-42; s. 10, ch. 93-230; s. 155, u. 97-101; s. 47, ch. 98-280; sec. 82, ch. 99-3; s. 23, ch. 2001-53; s. 4, chf. 2005-65.