Mich. Admin. Code R. 330.1285 - Nursing
Rule 1285.
(1) A
psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit shall have an organized nursing
service adequate to care for the patients.
(2) A nursing service shall have a written
plan that delineates its functional structure and its mechanism for cooperative
planning and decision making, including periodic review and evaluation of the
plan.
(3) A nursing service shall
have written policies and procedures, including a system of annual review and
update, for the provision of nursing services and for the direction of nursing
personnel in the performance of their duties.
(4) A nursing service shall be under the
direction of a registered nurse who shall have, at a minimum, a bachelor's
degree, 3 years of psychiatric nursing work experience, and a current Michigan
license as a registered nurse.
(5)
Administrative and clinical consultation shall be available to the director of
nursing from a qualified psychiatric nursing specialist with a master's degree,
unless the director of nursing is so qualified.
(6) In addition to the requirements of
subrule (7) of this rule, there shall be at least 1 licensed registered nurse
with 1 year of psychiatric nursing experience on duty on each work shift within
a psychiatric hospital or psychiatric unit.
(7) A psychiatric hospital or psychiatric
unit shall provide ratios of clinical nursing personnel to number of patients
24 hours a day to carry out the individual service plan for each patient.
Determination of the ratio shall be made in accordance with the nursing program
requirements for each nursing unit of the psychiatric hospital or psychiatric
unit. Once determined it shall be stated in the nursing organization plan and
program staffing shall be maintained at not less than the stated level until
there is a change in the type of patient care required.
(8) Orientation and staff development
programs in psychiatric nursing shall be provided for all psychiatric nursing
personnel.
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