Singapore legislation
Regulation 10
of Healthcare Services (Outpatient Renal Dialysis Service) Regulations 2023
Regulation 10
Standards for nursing personnel
Subregulation 1
A licensee must establish and implement nursing standards that set out the scope of services that may be provided by any nursing personnel employed or engaged by the licensee to support the provision of an outpatient renal dialysis service, and all the skills and competencies required for those services.
Subregulation 2
Without limiting paragraph (1), the nursing standards mentioned in that paragraph must —
include a training framework to ensure that each nursing personnel has the skills and competencies required for the service the nursing personnel provides; and
be approved by a Clinical Governance Officer or the supervising nurse.
Subregulation 3
A licensee must ensure that —
before any nursing personnel undertakes an activity in the provision of nursing services, the nursing personnel first receives training on the nursing standards applicable to the activity;
a nursing personnel who does not have the necessary skills or competencies to undertake an activity in the provision of nursing services does not undertake that activity;
the supervising nurse verifies and certifies each course of instruction or other type of training related to the required skills and competencies that is completed by each nursing personnel; and
the supervising nurse keeps a record of each course of instruction or other type of training mentioned in sub‑paragraph (c) in relation to each nursing personnel.