Nursing Services- Staff Ratio Requirements for the State of Indiana

a) The facility must have sufficient nursing staff to provide nursing and related services to attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well-being of each resident, as determined by resident assessments and individual plans of care.

(b) The facility must provide services by sufficient number of each of the following types of personnel on a twenty-four (24) hour basis to provide nursing care to all residents in accordance with resident care plans:

(1) Except when waived under subsection (f), the facility shall provide a licensed nurse hour-to-resident ratio of five-tenths (.5) licensed nurse hour per resident per day,

Averaged over a one (1) week period. The hours worked by the director of nursing shall not be counted in the staffing hours.