New Mexico Statutes Chapter 61. Professional and Occupational Licenses § 61-3A-3. Safe harbor; health care facility responsibility

(1) in the nurse's good faith judgment, the nurse lacks the basic knowledge, skills or abilities necessary to deliver nursing care that is safe and that meets the minimum standards of care to such an extent that accepting the assignment would expose one or more patients to an unjustifiable risk of harm or would constitute a violation of the Nursing Practice Act or board of nursing rules; or

(2) the nurse questions the medical reasonableness of another health care provider's order that the nurse is required to execute.

(1) notification to all nurses on staff as to how safe harbor may be invoked;

(2) notification by the nurse to the nurse's supervisor that the nurse is invoking safe harbor;

(3) written documentation with the date, time and location of the invocation of safe harbor and the reason for invocation, signed by the supervisor and the nurse;

(4) a post-occurrence review of the situation that:

(5) documentation of the resolution and review of the matter in which safe harbor was invoked.