483.35 - Nursing Services

F726: Competent Nursing Staff

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What this regulation requires

The facility must have sufficient nursing staff with the appropriate competencies and skills sets to provide nursing and related services to assure resident safety and attain or maintain the highest practicable physical, mental, and psychosocial well- being of each resident, as determined by resident assessments and individual plans of care and considering the number, acuity and diagnoses of the facility’s resident population in accordance with the facility assessment required at §483.71.

Source: CMS State Operations Manual, Appendix PP | 42 CFR § 483.35

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