N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43G-12.3

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 21, November 4, 2024

Section 8:43G-12.3 - Emergency department staff qualifications

(a) There shall be a physician director of the emergency department who is board certified in emergency medicine or who has five years of full-time experience in emergency medicine, which may include three years residency in emergency medicine, within the past seven years.

(b) Each physician practicing in the emergency department, except residents functioning under supervision as part of the hospital's graduate residency training program, consulting physicians, and private physicians who are attending to their patients in the emergency department, shall meet at least one of the following qualifications:

1. Board certification in emergency medicine;

2. Successful completion of an approved residency program in emergency medicine, family medicine, general internal medicine, general surgery, or general pediatrics; or

3. Three years of full-time clinical experience in emergency medicine within the past five years.

(c) Each physician practicing in the emergency department, except residents functioning under direct supervision as part of the hospital's graduate residency program, consulting physicians, and private physicians who are attending to their patients in the emergency department, shall attain provider status in Advanced Cardiac Life Support and either Advanced Pediatric Life Support or Pediatric Advanced Life Support within 12 months of initial assignment, and shall continuously maintain this status thereafter. Physicians who are board certified in emergency medicine shall be exempt from this requirement.

(d) Each physician practicing in the emergency department, except residents functioning under direct supervision as part of the hospital's graduate residency program, consulting physicians, and private physicians who are attending to their patients in the emergency department, shall attain provider status in Advanced Trauma Life Support within 12 months of initial assignment, and shall continuously maintain this status thereafter. Physicians who are board certified in emergency medicine shall be exempt from this requirement.

(e) The emergency department shall be staffed at all times by at least one professional nurse who has attained and continuously maintains provider status in Advanced Cardiac Life Support.

(f) The emergency department shall comply with the provisions of 8:41-7.4 in the utilization of paramedics.

(g) All registered professional nurses regularly assigned to the emergency department shall be trained and have completed courses in emergency care, including at least:

1. Basic life support (CPR);

2. Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), with ACLS provider status attained within 12 months of initial assignment and continuously maintained thereafter;

3. A minimum of eight contact hours of education every two years in basic trauma assessment, intervention, and stabilization; and

4. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS), or Advanced Pediatric Life Support (APLS), or Emergency Nurse Pediatric Course (ENPC), with PALS or APLS or ENPC provider status attained within 12 months of initial assignment and continuously maintained thereafter.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43G-12.3

Amended by R.1992 d.72, effective 2/18/1992.
See: 23 New Jersey Register 2590(a), 24 New Jersey Register 590(a).
Clinical experience requirements added to (a)3 and (c).
Amended by R.1995 d.124, effective 3/20/1995.
See: 26 New Jersey Register 4537(a), 27 New Jersey Register 1290(a).
Amended by R.1999 d.436, effective 12/20/1999.
See: 31 New Jersey Register 367(a), 31 New Jersey Register 614(a), 31 New Jersey Register 4293(c).
Rewrote the section.