New Mexico Statutes 22-34-5. School diabetes care
A. A governing body shall ensure that all students with diabetes receive appropriate and needed diabetes care as specified in students’ diabetes medical management plans. In accordance with the request of a parent or guardian of a student with diabetes and the student’s diabetes medical management plan, a school nurse or, in the absence of a school nurse, diabetes care personnel shall perform diabetes care functions that shall include, at a minimum:
Terms Used In New Mexico Statutes 22-34-5
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
(1) checking and recording the student’s blood glucose levels and ketone levels or assisting the student with checking and recording these levels;
range;
(2) responding to blood glucose levels that are outside of the student’s target (3) administering glucagon and other emergency treatments as prescribed;
(4) administering insulin or assisting a student in administering insulin through the insulin delivery system that the student uses;
(5) providing oral diabetes medications; and
(6) following instructions regarding meals, snacks and physical activity.
B. A school nurse or at least one diabetes care personnel shall be at each school where a student with diabetes is attending and shall be available to provide care to each student with diabetes as provided pursuant to Subsection A of this section during regular school hours and during all school-sponsored activities, trips, extended offsite excursions and extracurricular activities in which a student with diabetes is a participant and on buses where the bus driver has not been trained in diabetes care and a student with diabetes is a passenger.