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NRS 449.0304

Board to adopt regulations authorizing employees of certain facilities to perform certain tasks

Known as the Nevada Health Facilities Assistance Act

The act spans §§ 449–449 (272 sections).

(Added to NRS by 2017, 2303; A 2025, 957)

1. The Board shall adopt regulations authorizing an employee of a residential facility for groups 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;

(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 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 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.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.