Is the registered nurse (RN) allowed to delegate to non-credentialed staff in a juvenile detention center performance of CLIA-waived COVID-19 tests or polymerase chain reaction (PCR) COVID-19 tests?

No. The laws and rules only allow the RN to delegate to non-credentialed staff in public and private schools, kindergarten-twelve grades. In juvenile detention centers, the RN can delegate COVID-19 testing to a nursing assistant-registered/nursing-assistant-certified (NA-R/NA-C) or a medical assistant-registered/medical assistant-certified. An option may be to have specific staff obtain the NA-R/NA-C or MA-R/MA-C credential.