Paragraph 3: Emergency department structure

The medical team at the emergency facility includes a sufficient number of nurses to ensure that at least one of them is present at all times.

Where justified by the activity of the emergency unit, the team also includes a nurse who is responsible for receiving and organising patient care. This nurse implements the referral protocols delegated by the doctor present in the facility and coordinates the patient’s care, if necessary until the patient is hospitalised.

Where justified by the activity of the emergency unit, the team also includes nursery nurses, care assistants and, where appropriate, childcare assistants and qualified hospital service staff. Where necessary, the team includes stretcher-bearers.

The team has an admissions officer as required.

A social service assistant is assigned all or part of his/her time to the emergency department. In particular, he is responsible for implementing the provisions of article R. 6123-22.

The emergency department is equipped with 1° A reception room ensuring confidentiality ; 2° An examination and treatment area; 3° At least one reception room for life-threatening emergencies with the necessary means for immediate resuscitation; 4° A short-term hospitalisation unit with at least two beds, the capacity of which is adapted to the activity of the facility. When an analysis of emergency activity reveals a high number of visits by…

The health establishment authorised to carry out the activity mentioned in 3° of Article R. 6123-1 : 1° Sets up the premises and equipment to allow access to vulnerable persons, in particular disabled persons, and specifically organises their reception within the emergency department; 2° Provide appropriate reception arrangements for persons in police custody and, if designated to provide emergency care to detainees pursuant to article R. 6111-27, for such persons,…

The health care establishment authorised to carry out the activity mentioned in 3° of Article R. 6123-1 organises, either internally or by agreement with another establishment or within the framework of the network mentioned in Article R. 6123-26, permanent and immediate access for patients admitted to the emergency department: 1° Imaging equipment and competent imaging professionals ; 2° To medical biology analyses and to competent medical biology professionals. In each…