N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43G-22.15

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

Section 8:43G-22.15 - Pediatric intensive care staff qualifications

(a) There shall be a full-time physician director of the pediatric intensive care service who is board certified or board eligible in pediatric critical care.

(b) The pediatric intensive care unit shall be covered at all times by at least one physician, present in the hospital or on call, who is board certified or board eligible in pediatrics and has either five years of experience in pediatrics or has completed a fellowship in a pediatric subspecialty.

(c) The pediatric intensive care unit shall have physicians with each of the following pediatric subspecialties on staff: anesthesiology, cardiology, hematology/oncology, infectious diseases, nephrology, neurology, pulmonary, radiology, and surgery.

(d) The pediatric intensive care unit shall have a formal consultative relationship with physicians in the following pediatric subspecialties: endocrinology, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, otolaryngology, and urology.

(e) Specific privileges for physicians who admit patients to the pediatric intensive care unit shall be delineated by the hospital with participation of the physician director of the pediatric intensive care unit.

(f) The nurse with administrative responsibility for nursing in the pediatric intensive care unit shall be a registered professional nurse with specialized training in pediatric critical care and at least three years of experience in a pediatric intensive care unit.

(g) There shall be a health professional trained in resuscitation of children available within the unit at all times.

(h) Effective January 1, 1992, there shall be a health professional certified in advanced pediatric life support available within the unit at all times.

N.J. Admin. Code § 8:43G-22.15