Filed as: South Dakota Board of Nursing
Registered nurses may now delegate tracheostomy care and suctioning to nursing assistants in shared living homes when specific conditions are met, including that the client's condition is stable, routine care has been performed without complications, and the nursing assistant has received detailed training on airway anatomy, infection control, and emergency procedures. The Board of Nursing has also established a new registration system for certified nurse aides with separate requirements from medication aides, including approval standards for nurse aide training programs, a knowledge exam with a passing score of seventy-five percent, and a skills evaluation conducted by qualified registered nurses. Additionally, the board's executive director may now issue emergency suspension orders for nurses and nurse aides whose continued practice poses an imminent threat to public welfare, effective immediately upon written notice.
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The effect of the rules changes will be to update terms used; to add rules to allow the board’s compliance committee to issue a summary suspension; to amend and add rules to allow a registered nurse to delegate tracheostomy care and suctioning to a nursing assistant and to provide training and supervision requirements; to amend and add rules for the regulation of certified nurse aides (CNA) including nurse aide training program standards for approval, competency evaluation program requirements, registration requirements, and grounds for removal from the registry.
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