What's happening
This bill allows school nurses to adjust a student's insulin dosage per prescriber or authorized parental instructions.
Why it matters
Empowers school nurses to respond flexibly to students' immediate health needs. , allowing them to adjust insulin doses not just by a doctor's standing order, but also based on real-time instructions from parents—if the prescriber has explicitly given that authority. This addresses the unpredictable nature of diabetes management in children.
May improve safety and reduce risks for students with diabetes at school. , as nurses can make timely insulin adjustments without waiting for direct physician communication, potentially preventing dangerous high or low blood sugar events during the school day.
Clarifies and expands the legal protections for nurses. , reducing their liability when following prescriber- and parent-authorized instructions, which may encourage more proactive diabetes care and foster collaboration between parents, healthcare providers, and school staff.
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Let Nurses Adjust Insulin
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- Referred to education
- Referred to education
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Let Nurses Adjust Insulin
In Senate Committee · Education · Sponsor Patrick M. Gallivan
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STATE OF NEW YORK
6520
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
March 9, 2017
Introduced by M. of A. PAULIN, GOTTFRIED, HARRIS, RIVERA, ZEBROWSKI, CROUCH, LUPINACCI, McDONOUGH -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of A. GALEF, LOPEZ, ORTIZ, SIMON, WALSH -- read once and referred to the Committee on Education
AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to when school personnel may adjust a student's dosage of insulin
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 902-a of the education law, as added by chapter 423 of the laws of 2014, is amended to read as follows:
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 (which may include adjusting the dosage of the insulin under instructions from the prescriber or instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber), 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 twentyone of this article, as added by chapter four hundred twenty-three of the laws of two thousand fourteen.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[ ] is old law to be omitted.
LBD09468-02-7
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§ 2. Section 6909 of the education law is amended by adding a new subdivision 9 to read as follows:
9. A registered professional nurse, when administering insulin under a prescription, may vary the insulin dosage under instructions from the parent or person in parental relationship where explicitly authorized by the prescriber.
§ 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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