Nursing Services Requirements for the State of Louisiana
Subchapter B. Nursing Services §9809.
General Provisions
The nursing home shall have sufficient
nursing staff to provide nursing and related services that
meet the needs of each resident. The nursing home shall
assure that each resident receives treatments, medications,
diets, and other health services as prescribed and planned,
all hours of each day.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in
accordance with R.S. 40:2009.1-2116.4.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the
Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary,
Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 24:56 (January
1998).
§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 24 hours per day.
1. As a minimum, the nursing home shall
provide 1.5 hours 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.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance
with R.S. 40:2009.1-2116.4.
HISTORICAL NOTE: Promulgated by the
Department of Health and Hospitals, Office of the Secretary,
Bureau of Health Services Financing, LR 24:56 (January 1998). |
