Sec.17-227-14g. Nursing

(A) All hospitals providing inpatient care shall have an organized nursing service.

(B) The nursing service shall have a current, written organizational chart.

(C) Written nursing care policies and procedures shall be developed to provide the nursing staff with acceptable methods of meeting its responsibilities and achieving projected nursing care goals.

(D) The service shall be under the direction of a duly qualified registered nurse, and shall have a sufficient number of adequately trained personnel to meet the needs of the patients.

(1) Each hospital shall employ as Director of Nursing Services a nurse, registered in Connecticut, experienced in the care of the mentally ill patients and in the administration of psychiatric nursing services, who shall be responsible for the supervision and assignment of nursing personnel.

(2) There shall be on duty at all times at least one nurse, registered in Connecticut, who shall have had training and experience in the care of mentally ill patients.

(Effective April 18, 1978)