S.C. Code Regs. § § 61-17.2600.2606

Current through Register Vol. 48, 12, December 27, 2024

Section 61-17.2600.2606 - Work Stations

A. A facility shall provide work stations for nursing and/or other direct care staff. The facility shall design and construct (or set up) work stations in a manner conducive to the type of care provided by the facility or that specific area of the facility and the types of residents served.

B. At or near each work station, a facility shall have a telephone, an area for maintaining resident records and making entries, and a toilet and hand washing sink.

C. At or near each work station, a facility shall make provisions for the following:

1. Secured storage of medications, which may be accomplished by the use of a separately secured medication cart, container, cabinet, or room, provided:

a. The method or methods used are of sufficient size to allow for clean and orderly storage of medications;

b. Separations are provided for the storage of each resident's medications;

c. Separations are provided for oral and topical medications.

2. Work space or area for the preparation of medications, which may be a counter, table top, or a separate room, to include being a part of a separate medication room.

D. A staff work area shall be provided for each sixty (60) licensed beds or a fraction thereof.

E. A facility shall not have any resident room located more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from the work station serving that resident room.

F. A facility shall have utility areas or rooms for separate storage of clean and soiled supplies and equipment at or near each work station. A facility shall require each utility area to contain a hand washing sink, work counter, waste receptacle, and space for the storage of supplies.

S.C. Code Regs. § 61-17.2600.2606

Renumbered from 61-17.2800.2807 State Register Volume 40, Issue No. 03, eff. 3/25/2016.