Current through February 27, 2024
1.
A program of supervised training for providers of health care offered at a
freestanding birthing center:
(a) Must be
supervised by:
(1) A preceptor registered
with the North American Registry of Midwives, or its successor
organization;
(2) A certified
nurse-midwife who has been practicing as a midwife for the immediately
preceding 3 years; or
(3) A
physician licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS who has been
practicing in the area of obstetrics for the immediately preceding 3
years.
(b) Must include
instruction provided in accordance with an evidence-based curriculum
concerning:
(1) The process of
childbirth;
(2) Care available in
the community for a pregnant person, a person who has given birth and a child
before and after birth;
(3) Family
planning;
(4) Laws and regulations
governing midwifery;
(5) Nutrition
during pregnancy and lactation;
(6)
Breastfeeding; and
(7) Skills for
clinical midwifery.
2. The director of a freestanding birthing
center that offers a program of supervised training for providers of health
care shall:
(a) Develop policies and
procedures to carry out the program; and
(b) Review those policies and procedures
annually and revise the policies and procedures as necessary.
3. The policies and procedures
developed pursuant to subsection 2 must include, without limitation:
(a) The number of births that must be
attended by a participant in the program as:
(1) An assistant under supervision;
and
(2) The primary clinician under
supervision;
(b) The
number of prenatal examinations, examinations of a newborn and postpartum
examinations that must be successfully performed by a participant in the
program;
(c) A requirement that a
participant in the program must:
(1) Obtain
certification in basic life support issued by the American Heart Association,
or its successor organization, or hold an equivalent certification;
and
(2) Successfully complete
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
(d) Procedures for an assessment of skills
and an evaluation of competency.
4. As used in this section, "program of
supervised training for providers of health care" does not include a program of
training for birth assistants described in paragraph (e) of subsection 2 of
section 14.
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
