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Nev. Admin. Code § 449.3978 - Attendants: Prohibition on provision of certain types of services to clients

NevadaregulationNevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health (Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance), Department of Health and Human Services

What this rule requires your agency to do

  • 1The provider must ensure that each attendant works only within the attendant's scope of service and does not provide any of the prohibited (including medication-related) services to clients. (NAC 449.3978)(Nev. Admin. Code § 449.3978 - Attendants: Prohibition on provision of certain types of services to clients)
  • 2The provider must ensure that its attendants do not apply a dressing involving prescription medication or aseptic techniques. (NAC 449.3978)(Nev. Admin. Code § 449.3978 - Attendants: Prohibition on provision of certain types of services to clients)
  • 3The provider (agency) must ensure that its attendants do not administer medication to clients, including, without limitation, inserting rectal suppositories, applying a prescribed topical lotion to the skin, and administering drops in the eyes. (NAC 449.3978)(Nev. Admin. Code § 449.3978 - Attendants: Prohibition on provision of certain types of services to clients)
  • 4The provider must ensure that its attendants do not administer injections of fluids into veins, muscles or the skin. (NAC 449.3978)(Nev. Admin. Code § 449.3978 - Attendants: Prohibition on provision of certain types of services to clients)

Applies to: personal care / home care (personal care attendants employed by an agency to provide personal care services in the home)

Nevada regulates medication for personal care aides (called "attendants") primarily by prohibition. Under NAC 449.3978, an agency to provide personal care services in the home must ensure its attendants do NOT administer medication (including rectal suppositories, prescribed topical lotions, and eye drops), do not give injections, and do not apply dressings involving prescription medication or aseptic techniques. The companion training rule NAC 449.3977 requires competency training but contains no medication-administration authorization, reinforcing that medication administration is outside the personal care attendant scope of service in Nevada.

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