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1 Staffing Guidelines for Nursing Homes /06/2009 2 Staffing Guidelines for Nursing Homes The following staffing guidelines are the baseline staffing requirements for any nursing home setting. Voice Activated Commands Keygen Crack there. Nurse Managers must, in the interest and safety of patients, ensure that all the points that are set out in the document are taken into account when calculating staffing levels for individual settings. Proposed staffing levels should be always be agreed with the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority prior to registration or re-registration of the nursing home and at any other time as required. Staffing levels should be kept under continuous review. Legislative requirements for staffing in nursing homes Article 23 (2) (g) of The HPSS (Quality, Improvement and Regulation) (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 makes provision as to the numbers of persons, or persons of any particular type, working at an establishment or for the purposes of an agency. Regulation 20 (1) (a) of the Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 states that the registered person shall, having regard to the size of the nursing home, the statement of purpose and the number and needs of patients ensure that at all times suitably qualified, competent and experienced persons are working at the nursing home in such numbers as are appropriate for the health and welfare of patients.
Contravention of this provision of the regulations shall be an offence under regulation 36 (1) of the Nursing Homes Regulations (Northern Ireland) Staffing Guidelines The following points must be considered when staffing levels are being determined: ratio of staff to patients the dependency levels of patients.