Director of Nurses Requirements for the State of Minnesota
4658.0500 DIRECTOR OF NURSING
SERVICES.
Subpart 1. Qualifications and
duties. A nursing home must have a director of
nursing services who is a registered nurse.
Subp. 2. Requirement of
full-time employment. A director of nursing
services must be employed full time, no less than 35
hours per week, and be assigned full time to the
nursing services of the nursing home.
Subp. 3. Assistant to director. A nursing
home must designate a nurse to be responsible for the duties of
the director of nursing services related to the provision of
resident services in the director's absence.
Subp. 4. Education. A person newly
appointed to the position of the director of nursing services
must have training in rehabilitation nursing, gerontology,
nursing service administration, management, supervision, and
psychiatric or
geriatric nursing before or within the
first 12 months after appointment as director of nursing
services.
STAT AUTH: MS s
144A.04;
144A.08;
256B.431
HIST: 20 SR 303
Current as of 01/19/05
4658.0505 RESPONSIBILITIES; DIRECTOR OF
NURSING SERVICES.
The written job description for the
director of nursing services must include responsibility for:
A. the total nursing care of residents and
the accuracy of the nursing care records;
B. establishing and implementing
procedures for the provision of nursing care and delegated
medical care, developing nursing policy and procedure manuals
that must be available at each nurse's station, and developing
written job descriptions for each category of nursing personnel;
C. planning and conducting orientation
programs for new nursing personnel, volunteers, and temporary
staff, and continuing in-service education for all nursing home
staff in nursing homes under 90 beds, if no one is designated as
responsible for all in-service education;
D. determining with the administrator the
numbers and levels of nursing personnel to be employed;
E. participating in recruitment,
selection, and termination of nursing personnel;
F. assigning, supervising, and evaluating
the performance of all nursing personnel;
G. delegating and monitoring nonnursing
responsibilities to other staff consistent with their training,
experience, competence, and legal authorization, and with
nursing home policy;
H. participating in the selection of
prospective residents based on nursing care needed and nursing
personnel competencies available;
I. assuring that a comprehensive plan of
care is established and implemented for each resident and that
the plan is reviewed at least quarterly and within seven days of
the revision of the comprehensive resident assessment required
by part
4658.0400, subpart 3, item B;
J. coordinating nursing services for the
residents in the nursing home with other resident care services
provided both within and outside the nursing home;
K. participating in planning, decision
making, and budgeting for nursing care;
L. interacting with physicians to plan
care for residents; and
M. assuring that discharge and transfer
planning for residents is conducted.
STAT AUTH: MS s
144A.04;
144A.08;
256B.431
HIST: 20 SR 303
Current as of 01/19/05 |
