Nev. Admin. Code § 449.Sec. 20.1

Current through November 8, 2024

Section 449.Sec. 20.1 - NEW

1. The director of a freestanding birthing center shall:

(a) Ensure that drugs are administered and stored in the freestanding birthing center in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations;

(b) Ensure that drugs are administered and possessed in a freestanding birthing center only by persons authorized under federal and state law to administer or possess, as applicable, those drugs;

(c) Ensure that drugs and laboratory testing supplies are stored:

(1) In accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations; and

(2) At the temperature ranges recommended by the manufacturers;

(d) Establish a policy to ensure the quality of drugs used and dispensed at the freestanding birthing center; and

(e) Establish and maintain a list of drugs that may be administered at the freestanding birthing center and ensure that only drugs on that list are administered in the freestanding birthing center.

2. A patient at a freestanding birthing center may use a drug lawfully prescribed to the patient when the patient is admitted to the freestanding birthing center under the supervision of a clinical provider at the freestanding birthing center who is authorized under federal and state law to possess and administer the drug.

Nev. Admin. Code § 449.Sec. 20.1

Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R062-21A, eff. 9/8/2022

NRS 439.200, 449.0302, as amended by section 16.5 of Assembly Bill No. 287, chapter 517, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page 3437