§ 20-34-5-14 — Use of volunteer health aides

(a) At each school in which a student with
diabetes is enrolled, the school principal, after consultation with the
school nurse, shall:
(1) seek school employees to serve as volunteer health aides; and
(2) make efforts to ensure that the school has an adequate number
of volunteer health aides to care for students.
(b) A volunteer health aide, while providing health care services,
serves under the supervision and authorization of the principal and the
school nurse in accordance with the requirements that apply to the
school nurse under IC 25-23.
(c) A volunteer health aide must have access to the school nurse, in
person or by telephone, during the hours that the volunteer health aide
serves as a volunteer health aide.
(d) A school employee may not be subject to any disciplinary action
for refusing to serve as a volunteer health aide. The school shall inform
school employees that participation as a volunteer health aide is
voluntary. A school employee who volunteers as a volunteer health
aide may elect to perform only those functions that the school
employee:
(1) chooses to perform; and
(2) is trained to perform in the training program described in
section 15 of this chapter.

Legislative History

As added by P.L.166-2007, SEC.2.