NRS432B.197. Agency which provides child welfare services required to establish policies to ensure that children in custody of agency have access to and safe administration of clinically appropriate psychotropic medication.

  Each agency which provides child welfare services shall establish appropriate policies to ensure that children in the custody of the agency have timely access to and safe administration of clinically appropriate psychotropic medication. The policies must include, without limitation, policies concerning:

      1.  The use of psychotropic medication in a manner that has not been tested or approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, including, without limitation, the use of such medication for a child who is of an age that has not been tested or approved or who has a condition for which the use of the medication has not been tested or approved;

      2.  Prescribing any psychotropic medication for use by a child who is less than 4 years of age;

      3.  The concurrent use by a child of three or more classes of psychotropic medication;

      4.  The concurrent use by a child of two psychotropic medications of the same class; and

      5.  The criteria for nominating persons who are legally responsible for the psychiatric care of children in the custody of agencies which provide child welfare services pursuant to NRS 432B.4681 to 432B.469, inclusive, and the policies adopted pursuant to this section.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 410; A 2011, 2675)