La. Admin. Code tit. 48 § I-9811

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section I-9811 - Nursing Service Personnel

A. The nursing home shall provide a sufficient number of nursing service personnel consisting of registered nurses, licensed practical nurses, and nurse aides to provide nursing care to all residents in accordance with resident care plans 24hours per day.

1. As a minimum, the nursing home shall provide 1.5hours of care per patient each day.

2. Nursing service personnel shall be assigned duties consistent with their education and experience, and based on the characteristics of the resident load and the kinds of nursing skills needed to provide care to the residents.

3. Nursing service personnel shall be actively on duty. Licensed nurse coverage shall be provided 24 hours per day.

B. The nursing home shall designate a registered nurse to serve as the director of nursing services on a full-time basis during the day-tour of duty. The director of nursing services may serve as charge nurse only when the nursing home has an average daily occupancy of 60 or fewer residents.

C. If the director of nursing services has non-nursing administrative responsibility for the nursing home on a regular basis, there shall be another registered nurse assistant to provide direction of care-delivery to residents.

D. There shall be on duty, at all times, at least one licensed nurse to serve as charge nurse responsible for the supervision of the total nursing activities in the nursing home or assigned nursing unit.

E. Nurse aides shall be assigned duties consistent with their training and successful demonstration of competencies.

F. In building complexes or multistory buildings, each building or floor housing residents shall be considered a separate nursing unit and staffed separate, exclusive of the director of nursing.

La. Admin. Code tit. 48, § I-9811

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary, Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 24:56 (January 1998).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 40:2009.1-2116.4.