S.C. Code Regs. § 61-17.2600.2606 - Work Stations
A. A
facility shall provide work stations for nursing and/or other direct care
staff. The facility shall design and construct (or set up) work stations in a
manner conducive to the type of care provided by the facility or that specific
area of the facility and the types of residents served.
B. At or near each work station, a facility
shall have a telephone, an area for maintaining resident records and making
entries, and a toilet and hand washing sink.
C. At or near each work station, a facility
shall make provisions for the following:
1.
Secured storage of medications, which may be accomplished by the use of a
separately secured medication cart, container, cabinet, or room, provided:
a. The method or methods used are of
sufficient size to allow for clean and orderly storage of
medications;
b. Separations are
provided for the storage of each resident's medications;
c. Separations are provided for oral and
topical medications.
2.
Work space or area for the preparation of medications, which may be a counter,
table top, or a separate room, to include being a part of a separate medication
room.
D. A staff work
area shall be provided for each sixty (60) licensed beds or a fraction
thereof.
E. A facility shall not
have any resident room located more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from the
work station serving that resident room.
F. A facility shall have utility areas or
rooms for separate storage of clean and soiled supplies and equipment at or
near each work station. A facility shall require each utility area to contain a
hand washing sink, work counter, waste receptacle, and space for the storage of
supplies.
Notes
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