{"data":{"id":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-26-12-19","jurisdiction":"us-nj","citation":"N.J. Stat. § 26:12-19","heading":"Definitions relative to emergency epinephrine administration at youth camps.","body":"3.\tAs used in this act:\n\"Commissioner\" means the Commissioner of Health.\n\"Member of the youth camp community\" means a person who is a camper at, or a staff member of, a youth camp.\n\"Professionally qualified health care provider\" means a licensed health care professional whose authorized scope of practice includes the administration of medication, whether independently, or through a joint protocol or standing order from a physician.\n\"Trained designee\" means a youth camp staff member who has been trained by the youth camp health director or, if the youth camp health director is not professionally qualified to administer epinephrine, by a professionally qualified health care provider, in the detection of anaphylaxis and the emergency administration of epinephrine using a pre-filled auto-injector mechanism.\n\"Youth camp\" means the same as that term is defined by section 3 of P.L.1973, c.375 (C.26:12-3).\n\"Youth camp health director\" means and includes a person, 18 years of age or older, who meets the qualifications required by N.J.A.C.8:25-5.2 and who is responsible for the proper medical recordkeeping, care, and treatment of campers at a youth camp.  Youth camps that do not have a health director who is a medical professional may use one of the following options: a youth camp health director trained in the emergency administration of epinephrine via a pre-filled auto-injector mechanism by the professionally qualified health care provider responsible for writing the prescription with documentation; an emergency medical technician certified in emergency epinephrine auto-injector administration; or an individual trained in the detection of anaphylaxis and the emergency administration of epinephrine using a pre-filled auto-injector device.\n\"Youth camp operator\" means the same as that term is defined by section 3 of P.L.1973, c.375 (C.26:12-3).\nL.2015, c.231, s.3.","path":["TITLE 26 HEALTH AND VITAL STATISTICS"],"source_url":"https://pub.njleg.state.nj.us/statutes/STATUTES-TEXT.zip","current_through":"P.L.2025, c.405, and J.R.22","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-08-27T17:54:13Z","sha256":"8f9503106d018e9bd1fc3dbf62367d5f1a4660ed3fd10256185c088b3fe4ff3b","source_id":"us-nj","stale":true,"prev":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-26-12-18","next":"us-nj/n.j.-stat.-26-12-20"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}