How should school districts handle the need for nursing procedures when students go on field trips or participate in after-school activities?
When a student is unable to perform a necessary health-related task independently and the task is a nursing procedure as defined in Attachment A of the March 1995 memorandum, the parent, guardian, or volunteer acting at the request of the parent or an appropriately licensed person provided by the district must perform the health-related task. If the student is considered to be self-directed, but is unable to perform the treatment because of physical limitations, a person, assessed by the school nurse as appropriately skilled in the performance of that particular treatment, may assist the student who directs the procedure in any or all of the steps required to complete the procedure.
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