Director of Nurses Requirements for the State of Connecticut
(j) Director of nurses.
(1) Qualifications.
(A) For a chronic and convalescent nursing
home, the director of nurses, or any person
acting in such capacity, shall be a nurse
registered in Connecticut with at least one (1)
year of additional education or experience in
rehabilitative or geriatric nursing and one (1)
year of nursing service administration.
(B)
For a rest home with nursing supervision,
the director of nurses, or any person acting in
such capacity, shall be a nurse registered in
Connecticut with at least one (1) year of
additional education or experience in nursing
service administration.
(2) The director of
nurses shall be responsible for the supervision,
provision, and quality of nursing care in the
facility. The director of nurses' powers and
duties shall include, but not necessarily be
limited to, the following:
(A)
development and maintenance of written nursing service
standards of practice, to be ratified by the governing body;
including but not necessarily limited to:
(i)
definition of routine nursing care to be rendered by
licensed nursing personnel, and determination of when more than
routine care is needed; and
(ii)
definition of routine care to be rendered by nurse's
aides, and determination of when more than routine care is
needed;
(B)
coordination and integration of nursing services with
other patient care services through periodic meetings or written
reports;
(C)
development of written job descriptions for nurses and
nurse's aides;
(D)
development and annual review of nursing service
procedures;
(E)
coordination and direction of the total planning for
nursing services, including recommending to the administrator
the number and levels of nurses and nurse's aides to be
employed;
(F)
selection, with the administrator's approval, of all
nurses and nurse's aides;
(G)
appointment of nurse supervisors as required by
subsection (k) of section 19-13- D8t of the Regulations of
Connecticut State Agencies;
(H)
designation of a nurse in charge of each unit for all
shifts;
(I)
development of a schedule of daily rounds and assignment
of duties for all nurses and nurse's aides to assure twenty-four
(24) hour coverage sufficient to meet state regulatory
requirements;
(J)
assistance in the development of and participation in a
staff orientation and training program, in cooperation with the
administrator and medical director, as required by subsection
(f) (3) (J) of section 19-13-D8t of the Regulations of
Connecticut State Agencies;
(K)
ensuring yearly written evaluation of nurses and nurse's
aides;
(L)
reporting significant clinical developments to the
patient's personal physician and to the medical director; and
(M)
appointment, with the approval of the administrator, of a
nurse employed at the facility to act in the director's behalf
in temporary absences.
(3) The director of nurses shall
serve full-time and shall serve his/her entire shift between the
hours of 7 a.m. and 9 p.m.
(1) An assistant director of nurses
shall be appointed in any facility of one hundred and twenty
(120) beds or more.
(m)
Nursing staff:
(3) The
facility's administrator and director of nurses shall meet at
least once every 30 days in order to determine the number,
experience and qualifications of staff necessary to comply with
this section. The facility shall maintain written and signed
summaries of actions taken and reasons therefore.
(7) In facilities of 61 beds or
more, the director of nurses shall not be included in satisfying
the requirements of subdivisions (5) and (6) of this subsection.
(8) In facilities of 121 beds or
more, the assistant director of nurses shall not be included in
satisfying the requirements of subdivisions (5) and (6) of this
subsection. |
