N.Y. Education Law § 902: Employment of health professionals

§ 902. Employment of health professionals. 1. As used in this article

"health professionals" means persons duly licensed or otherwise

authorized to practice a health profession pursuant to applicable law,

including, but not limited to, physicians, registered professional

nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians assistants, optometrists,

dentists, dental hygienists, dietitians and nutritionists, and

audiologists.

2. a. The board of education, and the trustee or board of trustees of

each school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed upon

by the parties, a qualified physician, or a nurse practitioner to the

extent authorized by the nurse practice act and consistent with

subdivision three of section six thousand nine hundred two of this

chapter, to perform the duties of the director of school health

services, including any duties conferred on the school physician or

school medical inspector under any provision of law, to perform and

coordinate the provision of health services in the public schools and to

provide health appraisals of students attending the public schools in

the city or district. The physicians or nurse practitioners so employed

shall be duly licensed pursuant to applicable law.

b. Any such board or trustees may employ one or more school nurses,

who shall be registered professional nurses, as well as other health

professionals, as may be required. Such registered professional nurses

and other health professionals shall aid the director of school health

services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health

instruction for the benefit of the public schools as may be prescribed

by such board or trustees, in compliance with each such health

professional's practice act.

3. Health professionals may be employed by the trustees or boards of

education of two or more school districts, and the compensation of such

health professionals, and the expenses incurred in providing school

health services for students as provided in this article, shall be borne

jointly by such districts, and be apportioned among them in any manner

agreed to by such districts in a sharing agreement entered pursuant to

section one hundred nineteen-o of the general municipal law. The

trustees or boards of education of two or more school districts in a

supervisory district may enter into an agreement, or agreements as may

be required, with a board of cooperative educational services for the

provision of the services of one or more registered professional nurses,

and other health professionals to perform health services, including

health instruction in such districts.