Victorian Numbered Acts

SAFE PATIENT CARE (NURSE TO PATIENT AND MIDWIFE TO PATIENT RATIOS) ACT 2015 (NO. 51 OF 2015) - SECT 28

The operator of Mercy Hospital for Women, the Royal Women's Hospital, Monash Medical Centre (Clayton) and the Royal Children's Hospital must staff a ward that is a neonatal intensive care unit as follows on all shifts—

        (a)     one nurse for every 2 occupied cots; and

        (b)     one nurse in charge.

Division 3—Midwife to patient ratios