{"data":{"id":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-3727.52","jurisdiction":"us-oh","citation":"Ohio Rev. Code § 3727.52","heading":"Duties of nursing care committee.","body":"A hospital-wide nursing care committee convened pursuant to section 3727.51 of the Revised Code shall do both of the following:\n(A) If one exists, evaluate the hospital's current nursing services staffing plan;\n(B) Recommend a nursing services staffing plan that is, at a minimum, consistent with current standards established by private accreditation organizations or governmental entities and addresses all of the following:\n(1) The selection, implementation, and evaluation of minimum staffing levels for all inpatient care units that ensure that the hospital has a staff of competent nurses with the specialized skills needed to meet patient needs in accordance with evidence-based safe nurse staffing standards;\n(2) The complexity of complete care, assessment on patient admission, volume of patient admissions, discharges and transfers, evaluation of the progress of a patient's problems, the amount of time needed for patient education, ongoing physical assessments, planning for a patient's discharge, assessment after a change in patient condition, and assessment of the need for patient referrals;\n(3) Patient acuity and the number of patients for whom care is being provided;\n(4) The need for ongoing assessments of a unit's patients and its nursing staff levels;\n(5) The hospital's policy for identifying additional nurses who can provide direct patient care when patients' unexpected needs exceed the planned workload for direct care staff.","path":["Title 37 Health-Safety-Morals","Chapter 3727 Hospitals"],"source_url":"https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-3727.52","current_through":"2008-09-12 (House Bill 346 - 127th General Assembly)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T19:24:34Z","sha256":"73e5d2b38824b3d42640be8cd144590cf5942410d9f4de4383925225a8ca77f6","source_id":"us-oh","stale":false,"prev":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-3727.51","next":"us-oh/ohio-rev.-code-3727.53"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}