Library: Policy

317:30-5-1158. Public health nursing services

Issued 6-25-07

(a) Public health nursing services must be performed at a main clinic site, satellite clinic or mobile clinic site that is open to the public, or a member's home.

(b) Clinic visits may include but are not limited to services in the following areas:

• (1) health promotion and counseling;

• (2) medication management;

• (3) nursing assessment, treatment and diagnostic testing;

• (4) home visits;

• (5) nursing treatments;

• (6) immunizations;

• (7) administration of injectable medications;

• (8) medication management and the direct observation of the intake of prescribed drugs to treat tuberculosis (TB); and

• (9) case management for TB, first time mothers and their infant children, and high risk pregnant women.