Section 902. Employment of health professionals

1. As used in this article
  "health  professionals"  means  persons  duly  licensed   or   otherwise
  authorized  to  practice a health profession pursuant to applicable law,
  including, but  not  limited  to,  physicians,  registered  professional
  nurses,   nurse   practitioners,  physicians  assistants,  optometrists,
  dentists,  dental  hygienists,   dietitians   and   nutritionists,   and
  audiologists.
    2.  a. The board of education, and the trustee or board of trustees of
  each school district, shall employ, at a compensation to be agreed  upon
  by  the  parties,  a qualified physician, or a nurse practitioner to the
  extent authorized by the nurse practice  act  and  consistent  with  the
  written  practice agreement pursuant to subdivision three of section six
  thousand nine hundred two of this chapter, to perform the duties of  the
  director  of  school  health services, including any duties conferred on
  the school physician or school medical inspector under any provision  of
  law,  to  perform and coordinate the provision of health services in the
  public schools and to provide health appraisals  of  students  attending
  the  public  schools  in  the  city or district. The physicians or nurse
  practitioners so employed shall be duly licensed pursuant to  applicable
  law.
    b.  Any  such  board or trustees may employ one or more school nurses,
  who shall be registered professional nurses, as  well  as  other  health
  professionals,  as  may be required. Such registered professional nurses
  and other health professionals shall aid the director of  school  health
  services of the district and shall perform such duties, including health
  instruction  for  the benefit of the public schools as may be prescribed
  by  such  board  or  trustees,  in  compliance  with  each  such  health
  professional's practice act.
    3.  Health  professionals may be employed by the trustees or boards of
  education of two or more school districts, and the compensation of  such
  health  professionals,  and  the  expenses  incurred in providing school
  health services for students as provided in this article, shall be borne
  jointly by such districts, and be apportioned among them in  any  manner
  agreed  to  by such districts in a sharing agreement entered pursuant to
  section one  hundred  nineteen-o  of  the  general  municipal  law.  The
  trustees  or  boards  of  education of two or more school districts in a
  supervisory district may enter into an agreement, or agreements  as  may
  be  required,  with  a board of cooperative educational services for the
  provision of the services of one or more registered professional nurses,
  and other health professionals to  perform  health  services,  including
  health instruction in such districts.