2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 449 - Medical Facilities and Other Related Entities
NRS 449.0304 - Board to adopt regulations authorizing employees of certain facilities and agencies to perform certain tasks.

1. The Board shall adopt regulations authorizing an employee of a residential facility for groups, an agency to provide personal care services in the home or a facility for the care of adults during the day, with the consent of the person receiving services, to:

(a) Check, record and report the temperature, blood pressure, apical or radial pulse, respiration or oxygen saturation of a person receiving services from the facility or agency;

(b) Using an auto-injection device approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the home, administer to a person receiving services from the facility or agency insulin furnished by a registered pharmacist as directed by a physician or assist such a person with the self-administration of such insulin; and

(c) Using a device for monitoring blood glucose approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in the home, conduct a blood glucose test on a person receiving services from the facility or agency or assist such a person to conduct a blood glucose test on himself or herself.

2. The regulations adopted pursuant to this section:

(a) Must require the tasks described in subsection 1 to be performed in conformance with the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988, Public Law No. 100-578, 42 U.S.C. § 263a, if applicable, and any other applicable federal law or regulation;

(b) Must prohibit the use of a device for monitoring blood glucose on more than one person; and

(c) May require a person to receive training before performing any task described in subsection 1.

(Added to NRS by 2017, 2303)