433.504 - Right to information; inspection and copying of records.
433.504 Right to information; inspection and copying of records.
1. A client or the client’s legal guardian must be:
(a) Permitted to inspect the client’s records; and
(b) Informed of the client’s clinical status and progress at reasonable intervals of no longer than 3 months in a manner appropriate to his or her clinical condition.
2. Unless a psychiatrist has made a specific entry to the contrary in a client’s records, a client or the client’s legal guardian is entitled to obtain a copy of the client’s records at any time upon notice to the administrative officer of the facility and payment of the cost of reproducing the records.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1597; A 1987, 2221; 2009, 1666)