Patient care areas

[ken987]

How does everyone here feel a Chiropractors office and exam rooms fall, into patient care areas and article 517, I know the office area it self wouldn't, but would the exam rooms be subject to these rules.

 

[iwire]

Re: Patient care areas

I would say yes the exam rooms are patiant care areas.

Patient Care Area. Any portion of a health care facility wherein patients are intended to be examined or treated. Areas of a health care facility in which patient care is administered are classified as general care areas or critical care areas, either of which may be classified as a wet location. The governing body of the facility designates these areas in accordance with the type of patient care anticipated and with the following definitions of the area classification.

 

[ken987]

Re: Patient care areas

 classified as general care areas or critical care areas, either of which may be classified as a wet location

The exam rooms in this office do not fall under the definitions of general care areas or critical care areas, as the persons being treated will come in no contact with any electrical appliance, exam light, etc...

So why should the rules contained in 517 apply to a room in which the patient will come in no contact with any electrical apparatus.

 

[iwire]

Re: Patient care areas

Ken this is just my opinion but I find it unlikely the patient will not come into contact with electrical equipment.

General Care Areas. Patient bedrooms, examining rooms, treatment rooms, clinics, and similar areas in which it is intended that the patient will come in contact with ordinary appliances such as a nurse call system, electrical beds, examining lamps, telephone, and entertainment devices. In such areas, it may also be intended that patients be connected to electromedical devices (such as heating pads, electrocardiographs, drainage pumps, monitors, otoscopes, ophthalmoscopes, intravenous lines, etc.).

Look at the list, heating pads, telephones, examining lamps etc.

I recommend you talk to the inspector who will be looking at your job.