California Code of Regulations
Title 22 - Social Security
Division 5 - Licensing and Certification of Health Facilities, Home Health Agencies, Clinics, and Referral Agencies
Chapter 3 - Skilled Nursing Facilities
Article 5 - Administration
Section 72557 - Equipment and Supplies
Universal Citation: 22 CA Code of Regs 72557
Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024
(a) Equipment and supplies in each facility shall be of the quality and in the quantity necessary for care of patients as ordered or indicated. At least the following items shall be provided and properly maintained at all times:
(1) Airways.
(2) Bedpans.
(3) Catheter equipment.
(4) Clerical supplies and equipment.
(5) Denture cups.
(6) Drug service trays and/or carts.
(7) Ear syringes.
(8) Emergency oxygen supply and equipment for administration.
(9) Emesis basins.
(10) Examination light.
(11) First aid supplies, as determined by the patient care policy committee.
(12) Flashlights.
(13) Gloves (sterile and unsterile).
(14) Ice caps.
(15) Intravenous therapy supplies if facility provides such services.
(16) Medicine droppers.
(17) Medicine glasses, cups or other small containers which are accurately calibrated.
(18) Mortar and pestle.
(19) Rectal speculum.
(20) Refrigerator with accurate thermometer.
(21) Rubber tubing.
(22) Scales for weighing all patients.
(23) Shower and commode chairs, wheelchairs and walkers.
(24) Soap for bathing.
(25) Soap dishes or soap containers.
(26) Sphygmomanometers.
(27) Sterile dressings.
(28) Stethoscopes.
(29) Suction apparatus.
(30) Suture tray.
(31) Suture removal equipment.
(32) Syringes and needles.
(33) Test supplies necessary to perform urine sugar and acetone testing.
(34) Thermometers, oral and rectal.
(35) Tongue depressors.
(36) Urinals.
(37) Vaginal speculum.
(38) Washbasins.
(39) Water pitchers and drinking vessels.
(b) The facility shall provide current authoritive, pertinent, basic books, periodicals and reference materials related to all services provided. At least the following shall be provided:
(1) Dictionaries, medical and standard.
(2) Directories of available community resources.
(3) Current publications relating to gerontological nursing.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 208(a) and 1275, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Section 1276, Health and Safety Code.
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