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.

Source: Section 449.0304 — Board to adopt regulations authorizing employees of certain facilities and agencies to perform certain tasks., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-449.­html#NRS449Sec0304.

449.029
“Medical facility” further defined. 449.030
License required to operate or maintain medical facility or facility for the dependent. 449.0301
Exemptions. 449.0302
Board to adopt standards, qualifications and other regulations. 449.0303
Authority of Board to require licensing of other facilities. 449.0304
Board to adopt regulations authorizing employees of certain facilities and agencies to perform certain tasks. 449.0305
Businesses that provide referrals to residential facilities for groups and certain other group housing arrangements: License required 449.0306
Money received from licensing of facilities to be deposited in State General Fund 449.0307
Powers of Division. 449.0308
Authority of Division to collect actual cost of enforcing provisions from unlicensed medical facility, facility for the dependent or certain other facilities 449.03005
License to operate employment agency that contracts with persons in State to provide certain nonmedical services 449.03008
Petition to determine if criminal history will disqualify person from obtaining license 449.03013
Facility for the dependent or medical facility that employs community health workers not required to obtain additional license. 449.03015
Facility for the dependent or medical facility that employs providers of peer support services not required to obtain additional license. 449.03017
Person otherwise licensed under this chapter exempt from requirement to obtain license to operate employment agency that contracts with persons to provide certain nonmedical services. 449.03075
Duty of Division to compile and post information concerning licensing status and quality of certain facilities for the treatment of alcohol or other substance use disorders.
Last Updated

Feb. 5, 2021

§ 449.0304’s source at nv​.us