ARSD 44:76:11:05. Service area in care units

Each care unit shall contain a service area which includes the following: (1) Staff station with convenient access to handwashing facilities; (2) Staff charting; (3) Communications; (4) Storage for supplies and personal effects; (5) Staff toilet room; (6) Nurses' office; (7) Clean workroom for the storage and assembly of supplies for nursing procedures which contains a work counter and sink; (8) Soiled workroom which contains a work counter with a handwashing facility, a waste receptacle, soiled linen receptacles, a clinical sink with an exposed water trap seal, siphon jet or blowout action, and a bedpan flushing device; (9) Medicine room adjacent to the staff station with a sink, refrigerator, locked storage, and facilities for preparation and administration of medication; (10) Clean linen storage area in an enclosed storage space; (11) Nourishment station containing refrigerated storage, self-dispensing ice machine, and a sink for serving between-meal nourishments; (12) Equipment storage room on each patient wing or floor for storage of patient care equipment; (13) Janitor's closet for storage of housekeeping supplies and equipment which contains a floor receptor or service sink. The janitor's closet space and equipment may be incorporated into the soiled utility room; (14) Multipurpose rooms for staff, patients, and patients' families for conferences, reports, education, training sessions, and consultation; and (15) Preoperative and postoperative holding rooms or spaces. Any modification to the standard may be made. A modification shall be requested in writing by the facility and approved by the department.