NC Education Code · Regulation
Title 16 — root / Chapter 06 — 16 NCAC 06D .0402
Plain English summary
This regulation requires each Local Education Agency (LEA) to make a registered nurse available for students with special health care needs, covering assessment, care planning, and ongoing evaluation. LEAs must develop care plans identifying qualified personnel and supervision mechanisms for performing health procedures. LEAs are given flexibility in how they obtain nursing services, including hiring, contracting, or negotiating coverage through various providers.
Key requirements
- Each LEA shall make available a registered nurse for assessment, care planning, and on-going evaluation of students with special health care service needs in the school setting.
- Care planning includes identification of appropriate person(s) to perform the procedure.
- Care planning includes teaching those persons to perform the procedure.
- Care planning includes identification of a mechanism for registered nurses or other persons qualified by state law to plan and implement such health to provide ongoing supervision to ensure the procedure is performed appropriately and monitoring the student's response to care provided in the school setting.
- LEAs shall have the flexibility to hire registered nurses, to contract with individual registered nurses, to contract for nursing services through local health departments, home care organizations, hospitals and other providers, or to negotiate coverage for planning and implementing these services with the licensed physician, nurse practitioner, or physician assistant prescribing the health care procedure.
- LEAs shall implement this Rule in compliance with the provisions of G.S. 115C-307(c).
Affected parties
- Local Education Agencies (LEAs)
- Students with special health care needs
- Registered nurses
- Local health departments
- Home care organizations
- Hospitals and other nursing service providers
- Licensed physicians
- Nurse practitioners
- Physician assistants