New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 7 - HEALTH
Chapter 9 - NURSING HOMES AND INTERMEDIATE CARE FACILITIES
Part 2 - REQUIREMENTS FOR LONG TERM CARE FACILITIES
Section 7.9.2.64 - RESIDENT CARE EQUIPMENT
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 6, March 26, 2024
A. Personal need items: When a resident because of his or her conditions needs a mouthwash cup, a wash basin, a soap dish, a bedpan, an emesis basin, or a standard urinal and cover, that item shall be provided to the resident. This equipment may not be interchanged between residents until it is effectively washed and sanitized.
B. Thermometers: If reusable oral and rectal thermometers are used, they shall be cleaned and disinfected between use.
C. First aid supplies: Each nursing unit shall be supplied with first aid supplies, including bandages, sterile gauze dressings, bandage scissors, tape, and a sling tourniquet.
D. Other equipment: Other equipment, such as wheelchairs with brakes, footstools, commodes, foot cradles, footboards, under-the-mattress bedboards, walkers, trapeze frames, transfer boards, parallel bars, reciprocal pulleys, suction machines, patient lifts and stryker or froster frames, shall be used as needed for the care of the residents.
