A Do Not Resuscitate order is put in an impaired person's chart by family members and specifies that the person should NOT be given CPR after a cardiac arrest. Do Not Resuscitate (DNR) order is a written instruction from a physician telling health care providers not to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) if a patient's breathing stops or if the patient's heart stops beating. A DNR order is created before an emergency occurs and only after talking about it with the patient, the proxy, or the patient's family.
*CPR is an emergency rescue technique that was developed to save the life of people.