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NRS 449B.520

Board to adopt regulations authorizing employee to perform certain tasks

(Added to NRS by 2025, 942)

1. The Board shall adopt regulations authorizing an employee of an intermediary service organization, 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 organization;

(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 organization 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, perform a blood glucose test on a person receiving services from the organization or assist such a person to perform 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.