New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 8 - EDUCATION DEPARTMENT › Chapter II - Regulations of the Commissioner › Subchapter G - Health And Physical Education › Part 136 - HEALTH SERVICE › Section 136.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
Definitions as used in this Part:
(a)
School personnel
means
				  persons employed by school authorities in conducting the schools.
(b)
Health professionals
means persons duly licensed or otherwise authorized to practice a health
				  profession pursuant to applicable law, including, but not limited to,
				  physicians, registered professional nurses, nurse practitioners, physicians
				  assistants, optometrists, dentists, dental hygienists, dietitians and
				  nutritionists, and audiologists.
(c)
School nurse
means a
				  registered professional nurse.
(d)
Director of school health service
means a qualified physician,
				  or a nurse practitioner to the extent authorized by article 139 of the
				  Education Law and consistent with a written practice agreement, to the extent
				  required, pursuant to Education Law, section
				  6902(3), who is duly
				  licensed pursuant to applicable law, and who is employed by the school district
				  to perform any duties conferred on the school physician or school medical
				  inspector under any provision of law, to perform and coordinate the provision
				  of health services in the public schools, and to provide health appraisals of
				  students attending the public schools in the city or district.
(e)
School health services
shall mean the several procedures, including, but not limited to, medical
				  examinations, dental inspection and/or screening, scoliosis screening, vision
				  screening and audiometer tests, designed to determine the health status of the
				  student; to inform parents or other persons in parental relation to the
				  student, pupils and teachers of the individual student's health condition
				  subject to Federal and State confidentiality laws; to guide parents, students
				  and teachers in procedures for preventing and correcting defects and diseases;
				  to instruct the school personnel in procedures to take in case of accident or
				  illness; to survey and make necessary recommendations concerning the health and
				  safety aspects of school facilities and the provision of health
				  information.
(f)
Treatment
includes but is not limited to the efforts to cure,
				  care, ameliorate, manage or prevent diseases, disorders or injuries in need of
				  attention wherein the student, for the most part, is a passive
				  recipient.
(g)
Commencement
				  of the school year
shall mean the first day of the school year in
				  which students are in attendance.
(h)
Thirty days or 90 days
shall mean, respectively, 30 calendar days or 90 calendar days.
(i)
Health certificate
shall
				  mean a health examination recorded on a form prescribed by the commissioner,
				  describing the health condition of a student when the health examination was
				  made and whether or not the student is in fit condition to permit his or her
				  attendance at the public schools in accordance with the provisions of section
				  136.3(c) 
				  of this Part.
(j)
Dental
				  health certificate
shall mean a statement describing the dental health
				  condition of the student when the dental health assessment was made, describing
				  if a student is in fit condition of dental health to permit his or her
				  attendance at the public schools in accordance with the provisions of section
				  136.3(k) 
				  of this Part.