Training of unlicensed school personnel to administer certain medications

§ 921. Training of unlicensed school personnel to administer certain medications. 1. (a) The board of education or trustees of each school district and board of cooperative educational services and nonpublic schools are authorized, but not obligated to have licensed registered professional nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and physicians train unlicensed school personnel to administer prescribed glucagon or epinephrine devices in emergency situations, where an appropriately licensed health professional is not available, to pupils who have the written permission of a physician or other duly authorized health care provider for the administration of glucagon or an emergency epinephrine device, along with written parental consent, 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. Training must be provided by a physician or other duly authorized licensed health care professional in a competent manner and must be completed in a form and manner prescribed by the commissioner in regulation.

(b) For the purposes of this subdivision, the term "epinephrine device" shall have the same meaning as set forth in paragraph (b) of subdivision one of section three thousand-c of the public health law.

2. A school district, board of cooperative educational services, nonpublic schools and/or their agents or employees shall incur no legal or financial liability as a result of any harm or injury sustained by a pupil or other person caused by reasonable and good faith compliance with this section.