Rule 15-16-1-41.14.9 - Service Areas The size of each service area will depend on the number and type beds within the unit and shall include the following:
1. Nurse Station. For nurses charting, doctors charting, communication and storage for supplies and nurses personal effects.2. Staff Toilet with Lavatory. Convenient to nurse's station.3. Clean Work Room. For storage and assembly of supplies for nursing procedures. Shall contain cabinets or storage carts, work counter and sink.4. Soiled Utility. Shall contain deep sink, work counter, waste receptacle, soiled linen receptacle, and provision for washing bedpans if not provided elsewhere.5. Medicine Station. Adjacent to nurses' station, with sink, small refrigerator, locked storage, narcotic locker with a light in the nurses station that indicates when the door is open and work counter. (May be in clean work room in self-contained cabinet.)6. Clean Linen Storage. A closet large enough to hold an adequate supply of clean linen.7. Provision for between-meal nourishments.8. Patient Bath. At least one tub or shower-stall for each 18 patients not served by private bath.9. Stretcher and Wheelchair Storage Area.10. Fire Extinguisher. One (1) approved Class ABC unit for each 3000 sq. ft.11. Janitor's Closet. Closet large enough to contain floor receptor with plumbing and space for some supplies and mop buckets.15 Miss. Code. R. 16-1-41.14.9
Miss. Code Ann. § 41-9-17