# NurseCheck

> Statutory text, verbatim — then confirm your own facts.

NurseCheck publishes interactive compliance checks that quote Texas hospital nursing
statutes and federal CAH / EMTALA regulations verbatim. Pages list facts the reader must
confirm. They do not give legal advice or assertive verdicts.

Canonical site: https://nursecheck.org/
Method: https://nursecheck.org/method/
About: https://nursecheck.org/about/

## Primary checks (EMTALA / CAH first)

- [Screening and stabilising — the order](https://nursecheck.org/emergency-screening-order/): What has to happen when someone arrives at a Medicare hospital's emergency department, what may not happen first, and the one sentence in the section that protects an employee who reports it.
- [The transfer itself — three routes, a list of papers, and a name](https://nursecheck.org/appropriate-transfer/): What has to be true before an unstabilized individual is moved: two conditions joined by "and", three routes each producing a different paper, four elements, and a list of records that runs on two clocks — ending with the name and address of a physician who did not come.
- [The receiving hospital — what it may not refuse, and what it has to report](https://nursecheck.org/receiving-hospital/): The other end of the transfer: four limits inside one sentence, the definition of capacity that puts qualified staff inside the switch, the two paragraphs that cut against each other, and a reporting duty aimed at the hospital up the road.
- [CAH on-duty coverage — 42 CFR 485.631](https://nursecheck.org/cah-on-duty-coverage/): Who has to be available, and who has to be on duty, and when each clock runs.
- [Overnight gap — disposition pathways](https://nursecheck.org/overnight-gap-pathway/): A nurse has said no and someone still has to be there. Every option, and what each one rests on.
- [The paper trail — what the hospital has to keep, post and report](https://nursecheck.org/the-paper-trail/): The central log, the on-call list and its policies, five years of records for transferred individuals, two postings, and the duty to report a transfer received in an unstable emergency medical condition.
- [Observation status — what has to be said, by when, and who signs](https://nursecheck.org/observation-notice/): Twenty-four hours triggers it and thirty-six hours caps it. Two items the notice has to contain, an oral explanation with no person named, and two signature paths — one of which tells a staff member exactly what to write.
- [Inpatient status — who counts](https://nursecheck.org/inpatient-status/): Two paragraphs turn on the word inpatient and neither defines it. The one that does defines it for payment.
- [On-call and standby — six texts](https://nursecheck.org/on-call-status/): Defined once in Texas law, banned once as a substitute, and prescribed three times in the federal CAH rules — with a different answer each time.
- [Nurse staffing plan — ch. 257](https://nursecheck.org/nurse-staffing-plan/): The chapter before chapter 258: what a hospital must plan for, what the committee must look like, and the two numbers that must be given at the start of every shift.
- [Retaliation — ch. 257 and ch. 258](https://nursecheck.org/anti-retaliation/): Two anti-retaliation sections that protect different acts, one enforcement bridge shared by both, and the single federal sentence that uses the word the other way.
- [After the report — inspection, confidentiality, publication](https://nursecheck.org/after-the-report/): Who may inspect a hospital and on what basis, whether anyone has to investigate, what stays confidential and from whom, and the two numbers the Texas section gives for publishing the outcome.
- [Texas nurse mandatory overtime](https://nursecheck.org/texas-ch258-mandatory-overtime/): Can a hospital require it? Ch. 258 definition, prohibition, four exceptions.
- [Chapter 258 complaint — filing and what comes back](https://nursecheck.org/ch258-complaint-process/): What HHSC must put in the written decision notice, what stays confidential, and what the chapter never says.

## Citation

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