South Dakota Administrative Rules › Title 44 - Department of Health › Article 44:75 - Hospital, specialized Hospital critical access Hospital, and rural emergency Hospital facilities › Chapter 44:75:13 - Construction Standards › Section 44:75:13:07 - Service area in care units

Current through Register Vol. 51, page 10, July 15, 2024
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.
General Authority:
SDCL
					 34-12-13(3).
Law Implemented:
SDCL
					 34-12-13(3).