New Mexico Statutes Chapter 22. Public Schools § 22-34-2. Definitions

A. “diabetes” means type one or type two diabetes mellitus; complications related to diabetes mellitus; or prediabetes;

B. “diabetes care personnel” means a school employee who volunteers to be trained and is trained in accordance with Section 3 of the Student Diabetes Management Act;

C. “diabetes medical management plan” means a document that a student's personal health care practitioner and parent or guardian develops that sets out the health services that the student needs at school and that is signed by the student's health care practitioner and parent or guardian;

D. “governing body” means:

E. “health care practitioner” means a person licensed to provide health care in the ordinary course of business;

F. “school” means an elementary, secondary, middle, junior high or high school or any combination of those, including a public school, state-chartered or locally chartered charter school or private school that students attend in person;

G. “school employee” means a person employed by a school, a person employed by the department of health or a local health department or by the public education department who is assigned to a school or a contractor designated to provide diabetes management services at a school pursuant to the Student Diabetes Management Act; and

H. “school nurse” means a person who: