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SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS)
ACT 2015 (NO. 51 OF 2015)
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
PART 1--PRELIMINARY
1. Purposes
2. Commencement
3. Definitions
4. Objective
5. Change in name of hospital
6. Crown bound
7. Act not to affect employment contracts or workplace instruments
PART 2--NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS
Division 1--General
8. Ratio includes ratio variation
9. Application of ratios
10. Application of ratios in small hospitals
11. Out of hours coordination of hospitals
12. Rounding method
13. Demand higher or lower than expected
14. Skill mix
Division 2--Nurse to patient ratios
15. Level 1 hospitals
16. Level 2 hospitals
17. Level 3 hospitals
18. Level 4 hospitals
19. Aged high care residential wards
20. Emergency departments
21. Coronary care units
22. High dependency units
23. Palliative care inpatient units
24. Rehabilitation and geriatric evaluation management
25. Operating theatres
26. Post-anaesthetic recovery rooms
27. Special care nurseries
28. Neonatal intensive care units
Division 3--Midwife to patient ratios
29. Meaning of patient
30. Antenatal and postnatal wards
31. Delivery suites
Division 4--Variations from ratios
32. Quality of care paramount
33. Redistribution of nursing or midwifery hours
34. Below ratios distribution
35. Alternative staffing model
36. Local agreements to vary
PART 3--COMPLIANCE AND REPORTING
37. Power to give safe patient care compliance direction
38. Procedure for giving safe patient care compliance direction
39. Effect of safe patient care compliance direction
40. Obligation to report certain matters
PART 4--ENFORCEMENT
41. Local dispute resolution
42. Referral to Magistrates' Court
43. Civil penalty
44. Notification requirements
PART 5--GENERAL
45. Regulations
PART 6--SAVINGS AND TRANSITIONAL
46. Meaning of Agreement
47. Pre-existing higher staffing arrangements
48. Pre-existing lower staffing arrangements
49. Saving of pre-existing variations
SCHEDULE 1
SCHEDULE 2
SCHEDULE 3
ENDNOTES
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