Wyoming Administrative Code
Agency 079 - Nursing Home Administrators
Sub-Agency 0001 - Nursing Home Administrators
Chapter 5 - STANDARDS OF PRACTICE
Section 5-2 - Standards relating to the licensed Nursing Home Administrator's responsibility to provide quality resident care

(a) Ensure quality resident care through planning, implementation and evaluation of all nursing services;

(b) Recruit and hire facility staff and provide them with ongoing education in order to assure quality care for the long-term care resident;

(c) Obtain and coordinate consultant services as needed for total care b; matching needs of residents with the services of consultants.

(d) Meet regularly with health care team to assure good care is being delivered;

(e) Recruit (when applicable) a qualified medical director and develop a professional relationship with the medical director that ensures a well planned and implemented medical care program;

(f) Maintain strong relationships with community medical practitioners including attending physicians and physician extenders;

(g) Encourage communication between facility staff and the residents in order to assure a caring environment with appropriate nursing and psychosocial services; and

(h) Develop facility standards for resident care by identifying those factors which affect care, as well as variables within each factor which can be adjusted and evaluated.