Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-4

• Advance mental health care directive: means a written document expressing preferences, instructions, or a power of attorney for mental health treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Agent: means a competent adult designated in a power of attorney contained in an advance mental health care directive to make a mental health care decision for the individual granting the power and includes all designated alternate agents. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Capacity: means a principal's ability to understand the significant benefits, risks, and alternatives to proposed mental health care or treatment and to make and communicate a mental health care decision. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• 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.
• Guardian: means a judicially appointed guardian or conservator having authority to make a mental health care decision for a principal, appointed under part 3 of article V of chapter 560. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Health care institution: means an institution, facility, or agency licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Health care provider: means an individual licensed, certified, or otherwise authorized or permitted by law to provide health care in the ordinary course of business or practice of a profession. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Mental health care: means any care, treatment, service, or procedure to maintain, diagnose, or otherwise affect a principal's mental condition, including:

  (1) Selection and discharge of health care providers and institutions;

  (2) Approval or disapproval of diagnostic tests, surgical procedures, and programs of medication; and

  (3) Approval or disapproval of electroconvulsive treatment. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2

• Principal: means a competent adult or emancipated minor who has executed a written advance mental health care directive or power of attorney for mental health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2
• Supervising health care provider: means the primary physician or the physician's designee, or the health care provider or the provider's designee who has undertaken primary responsibility for a principal's health care, that includes mental health care. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 327G-2