Specialized Health Care Procedures. Qualified nurses and/or licensed medical technicians shall be the only employees to provide and conduct necessary medical procedures.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. Bargaining unit members shall not be requested or required to perform any medical or quasi-medical procedures on a student. No bargaining unit member shall be required to provide custodial care services.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. 9.7.1 Except for qualified and trained nurses, bargaining unit members shall not be required to provide and conduct necessary specialized health care procedures as part of their regular, on-going duties.
9.7.2 Specialized Health Care Procedure duties include, but are not limited to: catheterizations; injections; care/drainage/emptying of bags for ileostomies or colostomies, and care of stoma sites; care of gastrostomies including gavage or continuous feedings, drainage of gastric contents, and dressing changes around gastrostomy site; tracheostomy suctioning; or oxygen administration.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. Bargaining unit members other than certified/licensed school nurses and MH teachers shall not be required to perform any medical procedure on or dispense medication to any student except in emergency situations, nor shall they be required to provide custodial care.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. In the absence of exigent circumstances, no teacher shall be required to administer medications, medical procedures, or other health or sanitary procedures.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. Bargaining unit members shall not be required to administer specialized health care procedures to students unless they have first received appropriate training. Bargaining unit members shall not be required to receive such training unless mandated by state law. This provision shall not apply to certificated school nurses.
Specialized Health Care Procedures a. Bargaining unit members are not prohibited from, but shall not be required to perform any medical procedure on a student.
Specialized Health Care Procedures a. Except in cases of life-threatening emergencies, teachers shall not be required to provide specialized health care procedures including, but not limited to dispensing medication, catheterizations, crede’s maneuver, diapering, suction, oxygen administration, gavage feeding and draining. Special Day Class teachers may be requested to provide specialized health care procedures which they have been fully trained to perform.
b. The District shall indemnify and hold harmless from all liability any unit member who performs specialized health care services while acting within the scope of his or her duties.
c. The District will provide rubber gloves, mouth-to-mouth breathers, sponges, antibacterial and antiviral cleaning solutions and facilities to wash with hot water (whenever possible) and antiseptic soap to every unit member who may come in contact or be expected to come in contact with bodily fluids.
d. The District will pay for immunizations as covered by the District’s Blood borne Pathogens Plan.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. Under usual conditions, nurses or Health Safety Monitors will conduct necessary medical custodial care products/services.
Specialized Health Care Procedures. 1. Qualified and trained employees shall be the only bargaining unit members to provide and 18 conduct necessary specialized health care procedures including, but not limited to, dispensing 19 medication, catheterization, crede, diapering, injections, ileostomies, colostomies, gastrostomies, tracheostomy, suction, oxygen administration, gavage feeding and draining.
2. No other bargaining unit members shall be requested to perform such specialized health care, 21 except in extreme emergencies. 1 ARTICLE XVII
