Legislation
SECTION 921
Training of unlicensed school personnel to administer certain medications
Education (EDN) CHAPTER 16, TITLE 1, ARTICLE 19
§ 921. Training of unlicensed school personnel to administer certain
medications. 1. (a) The board of education or trustees of each school
district and board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic
schools are authorized, but not obligated to have licensed registered
professional nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and
physicians train unlicensed school personnel to administer prescribed
glucagon or epinephrine devices in emergency situations, where an
appropriately licensed health professional is not available, to pupils
who have the written permission of a physician or other duly authorized
health care provider for the administration of glucagon or an emergency
epinephrine device, along with written parental consent, during the
school day on school property and at any school function as such terms
are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of section eleven
of this chapter. Training must be provided by a physician or other duly
authorized licensed health care professional in a competent manner and
must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner in
regulation.
(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine
device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of
subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.
2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services,
nonpublic schools and/or their agents or employees shall incur no legal
or financial liability as a result of any harm or injury sustained by a
pupil or other person caused by reasonable and good faith compliance
with this section.
medications. 1. (a) The board of education or trustees of each school
district and board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic
schools are authorized, but not obligated to have licensed registered
professional nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and
physicians train unlicensed school personnel to administer prescribed
glucagon or epinephrine devices in emergency situations, where an
appropriately licensed health professional is not available, to pupils
who have the written permission of a physician or other duly authorized
health care provider for the administration of glucagon or an emergency
epinephrine device, along with written parental consent, during the
school day on school property and at any school function as such terms
are defined, respectively, by subdivisions one and two of section eleven
of this chapter. Training must be provided by a physician or other duly
authorized licensed health care professional in a competent manner and
must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner in
regulation.
(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine
device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of
subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.
2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services,
nonpublic schools and/or their agents or employees shall incur no legal
or financial liability as a result of any harm or injury sustained by a
pupil or other person caused by reasonable and good faith compliance
with this section.