                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

POSSESSION AND ADMINISTRATION OF AN APPROPRIATE WEIGHT-BASED DOSAGE OF
EPINEPHRINE BY EMPLOYEES (§ 22.1-289.059)

A. The Board shall amend its regulations to require each child day center to
implement policies for the possession and administration of epinephrine in every
such center to be administered by any nurse at the center, employee at the
center, or employee of a local health department who is authorized by a
prescriber and trained in the administration of epinephrine to any child
believed to be having an anaphylactic reaction. Such policies shall require that
at least one school nurse, employee at the center, or employee of a local health
department who is authorized by a prescriber and trained in the administration
of epinephrine has the means to access at all times during regular facility
hours any such appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine that is stored in
a locked or otherwise generally inaccessible container or area.

B. The Board shall amend its regulations to require each family day home
provider or at least one other caregiver employed by such provider in the family
day home to be trained in the administration of epinephrine and to notify the
parents of each child who receives care in such family day home whether the
provider stores an appropriate weight-based dosage of epinephrine in the
residence or home in which the family day home operates.

HISTORY: 2022, cc. 695, 696; 2023, cc. 122, 123.