N.M. Stat. § 22-34-5
School diabetes care.
A. A governing body shall ensure that all students with diabetes receive appropriate
and needed diabetes care as specified in students' diabetes medical management
plans. In accordance with the request of a parent or guardian of a student with diabetes
and the student's diabetes medical management plan, a school nurse or, in the absence
of a school nurse, diabetes care personnel shall perform diabetes care functions that
shall include, at a minimum:
(1)
checking and recording the student's blood glucose levels and ketone
levels or assisting the student with checking and recording these levels;
(2)
responding to blood glucose levels that are outside of the student's target
range;
(3)
administering glucagon and other emergency treatments as prescribed;
(4)
administering insulin or assisting a student in administering insulin through
the insulin delivery system that the student uses;
(5)
providing oral diabetes medications; and
(6)
following instructions regarding meals, snacks and physical activity.
B. A school nurse or at least one diabetes care personnel shall be at each school
where a student with diabetes is attending and shall be available to provide care to each
student with diabetes as provided pursuant to Subsection A of this section during
regular school hours and during all school-sponsored activities, trips, extended offsite
excursions and extracurricular activities in which a student with diabetes is a participant
and on buses where the bus driver has not been trained in diabetes care and a student
with diabetes is a passenger.