Current through December 12, 2024
A birth assistant in a freestanding birthing center must:
1. Hold a certification in basic life support
issued by the American Heart Association, or its successor organization, or
hold an equivalent certification, and have successfully completed training in
the techniques of administering neonatal resuscitation provided through the
Neonatal Resuscitation Program of the American Academy of Pediatrics, or any
successor to that program; and
2.
Have successfully completed:
(a) A program of
training for birth assistants offered by:
(1)
A nationally recognized organization for training birth assistants, including,
without limitation, the American Association of Birth Centers, or its successor
organization; or
(2) An accredited
college or university;
(b) Phase 2: Clinicals as Assistant Under
Supervision of the entry-level portfolio evaluation process of the North
American Registry of Midwives, or its successor organization;
(c) The Clinicals as Assistant Under
Supervision component of a program provided by a school accredited by the
Midwifery Education Accreditation Council, or its successor
organization;
(d) A program of
supervised training for providers of health care that meets the requirements of
section 16; or
(e) A program of
training for birth assistants that:
(1) Issues
a certificate to persons who have successfully completed the program;
(2) Is administered by a freestanding
birthing center; and
(3) Includes,
without limitation, training in accordance with an evidence-based curriculum,
an assessment of skills and requirements concerning attendance of births
outside of a hospital setting. The evidence-based curriculum must include,
without limitation, training concerning:
(II) The
anatomy and physiology of pregnant persons and newborns;
(III) The ability to find, understand and use
information and services to inform decisions concerning pregnant persons,
persons who have given birth and newborns;
(V) The process of labor and birth;
(VI) Care for a person who has given birth
and the newborn after birth;
(VII)
Medications relevant to the practice of a birth assistant;
(IX) Minor deviations from what is normal
during labor, birth and the postpartum period; and
(X) Major complications during
labor.
Added
to NAC by Bd. of Health by
R062-21A,
eff. 9/8/2022
NRS
439.200,
449.0302, as amended by section
16.5 of Assembly Bill No. 287, chapter 517, Statutes of Nevada 2021, at page
3437
