Health Transparency Regulation 2020

For section 10(1)(a) of the Act, the average daily resident care hours at each State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility for a particular period is prescribed.

The average daily resident care hours at a State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility for a particular period is worked out by—

for each day in the period, dividing the total number of hours of residential care that nurses and support workers provide at the facility on the day by the number of residents at the facility on the day; and

dividing the sum of the number of hours worked out under paragraph (a) for all the days in the period by the number of days in the period.

For this section, a nurse or support worker is taken to provide residential care at a State aged care facility or private residential aged care facility if the nurse or support worker is directly involved in providing residential care at the facility.

In this section—

to practise in the nursing profession, other than as a student; and

in the enrolled nurses division of that profession.

to practise in the nursing profession, other than as a student; and

in the registered nurses division of that profession.