New Jersey § 18a:40-12
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§ 18a:40-12.
a. The Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Human Services
and appropriate medical experts, shall establish guidelines for the development of
a policy by a school district, charter school, or nonpublic school for the emergency
administration of opioid antidotes. Each board of education, board of trustees of a charter school, and chief school
administrator of a nonpublic school shall implement the guidelines in developing a
policy pursuant to section 2 of this act. b. The guidelines shall include a requirement that each school nurse, and each employee
designated pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of this act, receive training on
standardized protocols for the administration of an opioid antidote to a person who is reasonably believed to be experiencing an opioid overdose. The training shall include the overdose prevention information described in subsection
a. of section 5 of the “Overdose Prevention Act,” P.L.2013, c. 46 ( C.24:6J-5 ). The guidelines shall specify an appropriate entity or entities to provide the training,
and a school nurse shall not be solely responsible to train the employees designated
pursuant to subsection c. of section 2 of this act 1 . 1
L.2018, c. 106 (N.J.S.A. § 18A:40-12.24).
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