New South Wales Consolidated Acts

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT 1991 - SECT 52

52 Nursing requirements for nursing homes

(1) A person who operates a nursing home must:

(a) ensure that a registered nurse is on duty in the nursing home at all times, and

(b) ensure that a registered nurse is appointed as a director of nursing of the nursing home, and

(c) ensure that any vacancy in the position of director of nursing of the nursing home is filled within 7 days.

Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.

(2) The regulations may prescribe the minimum necessary qualifications for a registered nurse to be appointed as a director of nursing at a nursing home.

(3) In this section:
"director of nursing" of a nursing home means the registered nurse responsible for care of the residents of the nursing home.
"registered nurse" has the same meaning as in the Nurses and Midwives Act 1991 .