N.Y. Education Law § 902-a: Treatment of students diagnosed with diabetes by school personnel

§ 902-a. Treatment of students diagnosed with diabetes by school

personnel. 1. Licensed nurses, nurse practitioners, physician

assistants, or physicians employed by school districts or boards of

cooperative educational services are authorized to calculate prescribed

insulin dosages, administer prescribed insulin, program the prescribed

insulin pump, refill the reservoir in the insulin pump, change the

infusion site, inject prescribed glucagon, teach an unlicensed person to

administer glucagon to an individual, and perform other authorized

services pursuant to the scope of practice of the licensed individual

under title VIII of this chapter, to pupils who have received written

permission by a physician or other licensed health care provider, and

written parental consent to carry and use insulin and glucagon pursuant

to section nine hundred sixteen-b of this article, during the school day

on school property and at any school function as such terms are defined,

respectively, by subdivisions one and two of section eleven of this

chapter. Nothing in this section shall authorize unlicensed persons to

perform these services except as otherwise permitted by section nine

hundred twenty-one of this article.

2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services and/or

their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as

a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person

caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.