N.J. Admin. Code § 10:52-6.38 - Intensive Care Units (ICU)

(a) The functions included in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) cost center are as follows:

1. Intensive Care Units provide nursing care to patients who, because of surgery, shock, trauma, serious injury or life threatening conditions, require intensified comprehensive observation and care. These units shall be staffed with specially trained nursing personnel and contain specialized equipment for patient monitoring and life support systems. Intensive Care Units include Stroke Care, Pediatric, Intensive Care, Burn Care (not classified in BCU), Medical and Surgical Intensive Care and mixed Intensive Care Coronary Care Units, but exclude units solely designated as Coronary Care Units or Neonatal Intensive Care Units. Medical and Surgical Supplies shall be reported in accordance with N.J.A.C. 10:52-6.21.

2. Functions shall include the following: monitoring patients' progress; operating specialized equipment; assisting physicians during examinations and treatments; dispensing prescribed medications, including intravenous solutions; cleansing and dressing incisions and wounds; maintaining patients' charts; and requisitioning and storing medical supplies and drugs kept in these units.

(b) Units of Service: Patients (Admissions and Transfers In) and Patient Days.

Notes

N.J. Admin. Code § 10:52-6.38

Recodified from N.J.A.C. 10:52-6.40 and amended by R.2000 d.29, effective 1/18/2000.
See: 31 New Jersey Register 3151(a), 32 New Jersey Register 276(a).
In (a), substituted "included in the Intensive Care Units (ICU) cost center" for "of the Intensive Care Units (ICU)" in the introductory paragraph, and substituted "as" for "25" following "designated" in the third sentence and changed N.J.A.C. reference in the last sentence of 1. Former N.J.A.C. 10:52-6.38, Psychiatric Acute Care Units (PSA), recodified to N.J.A.C. 10:52-6.36.