A. For an unemancipated minor who is not under juvenile court jurisdiction pursuant to section 8-202, a provider may not implement a do-not-resuscitate order without communicating with at least one of the minor's parents or the minor's legal guardian. The communication must include a discussion of both of the following:

1. 1. The minor's care plan, including implementing a do-not-resuscitate order and what the do-not-resuscitate order means for the minor.
2. 2. The rights provided under subsections E and G of this section.

D. This section does not require a provider to initially provide or continue resuscitative measures on a minor if the resuscitative measures would be medically inappropriate because providing the treatment would, in the provider's reasonable medical judgment, either:

1. 1. Create a greater risk of causing or hastening the minor's death.
2. 2. Be potentially harmful or cause unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to the minor because there is no further benefit to the minor in performing resuscitative measures.

H. For the purposes of this section:

1. 1. "Do-not-resuscitate order":

   1. (a) Means an order in a patient's medical record that reflects a decision to forgo cardiopulmonary resuscitative measures.
   2. (b) Does not include withholding other medical interventions deemed necessary to provide a patient with comfort care or to alleviate pain.
2. 2. "Provider" means a health care facility, a nursing home, a physician who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 13 or 17 or a nurse who is licensed pursuant to title 32, chapter 15.