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2025 Oregon Revised Statutes
Volume : 12 - Public Health
Chapter 441 - Health Care Facilities
Section 441.767 - Staffing plans for psychiatric units.

Universal Citation:
OR Rev Stat § 441.767 (2025)
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(1) As used in this section, "psychiatric unit" includes:

(a) Inpatient psychiatric units;

(b) Psychiatric geriatric units;

(c) Psychiatric pediatric units;

(d) Emergency departments that provide psychiatric emergency service, as defined by the Oregon Health Authority by rule; and

(e) The Oregon State Hospital.

(2) A psychiatric unit shall create a multidisciplinary subcommittee of the hospital nurse staffing committee consisting of staff from the unit. The subcommittee shall adopt the staffing plan for the psychiatric unit and shall be considered a hospital nurse staffing committee for purposes of:

(a) The adoption of a nurse staffing plan under ORS 441.762 and 441.763; and

(b) Provisions of ORS 441.766 related to:

(A) Dispute resolution through mandatory arbitration; and

(B) Determining the circumstances when the nurse-to-patient ratios in ORS 441.765 will not apply. [2023 c.507 §7]

Note: See note under 441.761.

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