Can non-credentialed assistive personnel in the school setting provide urgent or emergent care for urgent asthma episodes?

Non-credentialed assistive personnel may assist the student in identifying emergent or urgent asthma episodes in the kindergarten through twelve grade, public and private school setting (RCW 28A.210 Common School Provisions: Health-Screening and Requirements). This may include using the use of a peak flow meter and administration of quick-relief medications (such as inhaled bronchodilators). The nurse must include these activities in the emergency health care plan and medication prescription/orders, including the frequency that the medication can be given, from an authorized health care practitioner. The emergency health care plan must include actions to contact emergency services as appropriate.