2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 453C - Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act
NRS 453C.105 - Authorization to issue order for school to obtain and maintain opioid antagonist; contents of order; immunity from professional discipline and liability.
1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a health care professional authorized to prescribe an opioid antagonist may issue to a public school or private school an order to allow the school to obtain and maintain an opioid antagonist 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 an opioid-related drug overdose.
2. An order issued pursuant to subsection 1 must contain:
(a) The name and signature of the health care professional and the address of the health care professional if not immediately available to the pharmacist;
(b) The classification of the license of the health care professional;
(c) The name of the public school or private school to which the order is issued;
(d) The name, strength and quantity of the opioid antagonist authorized to be obtained and maintained by the order; and
(e) The date of issue.
3. A health care professional is not subject to disciplinary action solely for issuing a valid order pursuant to subsection 1 to a public school or private school and without knowledge of a specific natural person who requires the medication.
4. A health care professional is not liable for any error or omission concerning the acquisition, possession, provision or administration of an opioid antagonist maintained by a public school or private school pursuant to an order issued by the health care professional pursuant to subsection 1 not resulting from gross negligence or reckless, willful or wanton conduct of the health care professional.
5. 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 2021, 424)
