S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:13:07

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 67, December 16, 2024

Section 44:75:13:07 - Service area in care units

Each care unit shall contain a service area which includes:

(1) Nurses' station with convenient access to handwashing facilities;

(2) Nurses' charting;

(3) Doctors' charting;

(4) Communications;

(5) Storage for supplies and personnels' personal effects;

(6) Personnel toilet room;

(7) Nurses' office;

(8) Clean workroom for the storage and assembly of supplies for nursing procedures which contains a work counter and sink;

(9) Soiled workroom which contains a work counter, a handwashing facility, a waste receptacle, soiled linen receptacles, a clinical sink with an exposed water trap seal, siphon jet or blowout action, and a bedpan flushing device;

(10) Medicine room adjacent to the staff station with a sink, refrigerator, locked storage, and facilities for preparation and administration of medication;

(11) Clean linen storage area in an enclosed storage space;

(12) Nourishment station containing refrigerated storage, self-dispensing ice machine, and a sink for serving between-meal nourishments;

(13) Equipment storage room on each patient wing or floor for storage of patient care equipment;

(14) Patient bathing facilities containing one shower, bathtub, or whirlpool for each 15 beds not individually served. Whirlpool units with lifts may serve thirty beds;

(15) Janitor's closet for storage of housekeeping supplies and equipment which contains a floor receptor or service sink. The janitor's closet space and equipment may be incorporated into the soiled utility room;

(16) Isolation facilities for the use of those prone to infections as well as those suffering from infections. One isolation room shall be provided for each thirty acute-care beds. The entry into the isolation room shall be through an anteroom which is equipped with handwashing, gowning space and supplies, and space to handle clean and soiled supplies for the room or rooms served. Toilet, bathing, and handwashing facilities shall be available for the isolation room patient without entry into the anteroom or general corridor. A nursing unit is not required to maintain an isolation facility if such facilities are provided elsewhere in the institution;

(17) Playroom facilities for pediatric patients; and

(18) Multipurpose rooms for personnel, patients, and patients' families for conferences, reports, education, training sessions, and consultation.

If outpatient therapy services are offered, the therapy unit shall provide access without traversing inpatient areas, locked records storage, hand sinks located convenient to treatment areas, private room with hand sink for speech language pathology, cubicle curtains for privacy at treatment areas, and the therapy unit shall be sized and equipped to accommodate the therapy modalities offered.

S.D. Admin. R. 44:75:13:07

42 SDR 51, effective 10/13/2015; 50 SDR 062, effective 11/27/2023

General Authority: SDCL 34-12-13(3).

Law Implemented: SDCL 34-12-13(3).