NAC449.5565. Staff that repairs or maintains equipment used to provide care to patients.

A facility shall not allow a member of the staff of the facility to repair or maintain any equipment of the facility that is used to provide care to a patient of the facility unless the member has completed a course of instruction and demonstrated competency in repairing or maintaining that equipment. The course must include instruction in the following subjects:

     1. The prevention of the transmission of hepatitis through any equipment that is used for dialysis;

     2. The requirements for safety of systems that are used to deliver dialysate;

     3. The control of bacteria;

     4. Standards for water quality; and

     5. The repair and maintenance of equipment used for dialysis or other equipment used by the facility to provide care to a patient of the facility.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health by R130-99, eff. 8-1-2001)