F-Tag F0726 — Competent Nursing Staff
Category: Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
Official CMS facts
Ensure that nurses and nurse aides have the appropriate competencies to care for every resident in a way that maximizes each resident's well being.
According to the loaded CMS Health Deficiency records, this tag has 2,611 citations across 2,134 unique facilities. 187 citations have reached Immediate Jeopardy severity. The top recorded severity is L.
Top-Cited States for F-Tag F0726
- California — 652 citations
- Texas — 171 citations
- Pennsylvania — 137 citations
- Louisiana — 128 citations
- Massachusetts — 106 citations
Related F-Tags in Nursing and Physician Services Deficiencies
- F-Tag F0725 — Provide enough nursing staff every day to meet the needs of every resident; and have a licensed nurse in charge on each shift. (3,232 citations)
- F-Tag F0732 — Post nurse staffing information every day. (2,832 citations)
- F-Tag F0727 — Have a registered nurse on duty 8 hours a day; and select a registered nurse to be the director of nurses on a full time basis. (2,153 citations)
- F-Tag F0730 — Observe each nurse aide's job performance and give regular training. (1,439 citations)
- F-Tag F0947 — Ensure nurse aides have the skills they need to care for residents, and give nurse aides education in dementia care and abuse prevention. (1,044 citations)
POCDesk summary and practical use
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Source, freshness, and limitations
CMS nursing-home Provider Data is the source for the descriptive citation counts above. Counts may change as CMS updates data, and missing measures remain unknown rather than zero. Read the governing 42 CFR Part 483 and POCDesk’s editorial standards.
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