2014 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 633 - Osteopathic Medicine
NRS 633.707 - Osteopathic physician authorized to issue order for public or private school to obtain and maintain auto-injectable epinephrine at school; definitions.

NV Rev Stat § 633.707 (2014) What's This?

1. An osteopathic physician may issue to a public or private school an order to allow the school to obtain and maintain auto-injectable epinephrine at the school, regardless of whether any person at the school has been diagnosed with a condition which may cause the person to require such medication for the treatment of anaphylaxis.

2. An order issued pursuant to subsection 1 must contain:

(a) The name and signature of the osteopathic physician and the address of the osteopathic physician if not immediately available to the pharmacist;

(b) The classification of his or her license;

(c) The name of the public or private school to which the order is issued;

(d) The name, strength and quantity of the drug authorized to be obtained and maintained by the order; and

(e) The date of issue.

3. An osteopathic physician is not subject to disciplinary action solely for issuing a valid order pursuant to subsection 1 to an entity other than a natural person and without knowledge of a specific natural person who requires the medication.

4. As used in this section:

(a) Private school has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 394.103.

(b) Public school has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 385.007.

(Added to NRS by 2013, 1228)

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