Rule 15-16-1-51.82.3 - Service Areas The size of each service area will depend on the number beds within the unit and shall include the following:
1. Nurses Station. For charting, communication and storage for supplies and nurses personal effects;2. Nurses Toilet with Lavatory. Convenient to nurses' station;3. Clean Work Room. For storage and assembly of supplies. Shall contain storage cabinets or storage carts, work counter and sink;4. Soiled Utility. Shall contain deep sink work counter, waste receptacle, soiled linen receptacle;5. Medicine Station. Adjacent to nurses' station, with sink, small refrigerator, locked storage 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. Fire Extinguisher. One approved Class 2A unit for each 3000 sq/ ft.; and10. Janitor's Closet. Closet large enough to contain floor receptor with plumbing and space for some supplies and mop buckets.15 Miss. Code. R. § 16-1-51.82.3
Miss. Code Ann. § 43-11-13