South Dakota Administrative Rules
Title 67 - Department of Social Services
Article 67:16 - Covered medical services
Chapter 67:16:37 - School districts
Section 67:16:37:11 - Covered nursing services

(1) Nursing evaluation or assessment, which includes observation of recipients with chronic medical illnesses in order to assure that medical needs are being appropriately identified, addressed, and monitored;

(2) Nursing treatment, which includes administration of medication; management and care of specialized feeding program, management and care of specialized medical equipment such as colostomy bags, nasalgastric tubes, tracheostomy tubes; and

(3) Extended nursing care for technology-dependent child who relies on life-sustaining medical technology to compensate for the loss of a vital body function and requires ongoing complex hospital-level nursing care to avert death or further disability.

Extended nursing care is limited to services provided in the school during normal school hours. Routine nursing services which are provided to all students by a school nurse, such as treatment of minor abrasions, cuts, and contusions; recording of temperature or blood pressure; and evaluation or assessment of acute illness, are not covered services under this chapter.