Full Text of HB5655 97th General Assembly
HB5655 97TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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State of Illinois
2011 and 2012 HB5655 Introduced 2/16/2012, by Rep. Esther Golar SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED: |
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Amends the Nursing Home Care Act. Makes a technical change in a Section concerning a safe resident handling policy.
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| 1 | | AN ACT concerning regulation.
| 2 | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
| 3 | | represented in the General Assembly:
| 4 | | Section 5. The Nursing Home Care Act is amended by changing | 5 | | Section 3-206.05 as follows: | 6 | | (210 ILCS 45/3-206.05) | 7 | | Sec. 3-206.05. Safe resident handling policy. | 8 | | (a) In this this Section: | 9 | | "Health care worker" means an individual providing direct | 10 | | resident care services who may be required to lift, transfer, | 11 | | reposition, or move a resident. | 12 | | "Nurse" means an advanced practice nurse, a registered | 13 | | nurse, or a licensed practical nurse licensed under the Nurse | 14 | | Practice Act. | 15 | | (b) A facility must adopt and ensure implementation of a | 16 | | policy to identify, assess, and develop strategies to control | 17 | | risk of injury to residents and nurses and other health care | 18 | | workers associated with the lifting, transferring, | 19 | | repositioning, or movement of a resident. The policy shall | 20 | | establish a process that, at a minimum, includes all of the | 21 | | following: | 22 | | (1) Analysis of the risk of injury to residents and | 23 | | nurses and other health care workers taking into account |
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| 1 | | the resident handling needs of the resident populations | 2 | | served by the facility and the physical environment in | 3 | | which the resident handling and movement occurs. | 4 | | (2) Education of nurses in the identification, | 5 | | assessment, and control of risks of injury to residents and | 6 | | nurses and other health care workers during resident | 7 | | handling. | 8 | | (3) Evaluation of alternative ways to reduce risks | 9 | | associated with resident handling, including evaluation of | 10 | | equipment and the environment. | 11 | | (4) Restriction, to the extent feasible with existing | 12 | | equipment and aids, of manual resident handling or movement | 13 | | of all or most of a resident's weight except for emergency, | 14 | | life-threatening, or otherwise exceptional circumstances. | 15 | | (5) Procedures for a nurse to refuse to perform or be | 16 | | involved in resident handling or movement that the nurse in | 17 | | good faith believes will expose a resident or nurse or | 18 | | other health care worker to an unacceptable risk of injury. | 19 | | (6) Development of strategies to control risk of injury | 20 | | to residents and nurses and other health care workers | 21 | | associated with the lifting, transferring, repositioning, | 22 | | or movement of a resident. | 23 | | (7) In developing architectural plans for construction | 24 | | or remodeling of a facility or unit of a facility in which | 25 | | resident handling and movement occurs, consideration of | 26 | | the feasibility of incorporating resident handling |
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| 1 | | equipment or the physical space and construction design | 2 | | needed to incorporate that equipment.
| 3 | | (Source: P.A. 96-389, eff. 1-1-10.)
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