Arizona Administrative Code
Title 9 - HEALTH SERVICES
Chapter 10 - DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH SERVICES - HEALTH CARE INSTITUTIONS: LICENSING
Article 9 - OUTPATIENT SURGICAL CENTERS
Section R9-10-912 - Nursing Services

1. Is responsible for the management of the outpatient surgical center's nursing services;

2. Ensures that policies and procedures are established, documented, and implemented for nursing services provided in the outpatient surgical center;

3. Ensures that the outpatient surgical center is staffed with sufficient nursing personnel, based on the number of patients, the health care needs of the patients, and the outpatient surgical center's scope of services;

4. Participates in quality management activities;

5. Designates a registered nurse, in writing, to manage an outpatient surgical center's nursing services when the director of nursing is not present on the outpatient surgical center's premises;

6. Ensures that a nurse who is not directly assisting the surgeon is responsible for the functioning of an operating room while a surgical procedure is being performed in the operating room;

7. Ensures that a registered nurse is present in the:

8. Ensures that a nurse documents in a patient's medical record that the patient or the patient's representative has received written discharge instructions.