New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 8 - HEALTH › Chapter 111 - FOOD AND DRUGS › Subchapter 6 - CLIENT CARE POLICIES AND SERVICES › Section 8:111-6.2 - Client continuity of care and client safety

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
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				Client care policies shall facilitate continuity of care and client safety, and
				shall include, but need not be limited to, the following:
1. Admissions and exclusionary criteria that
				include identification of the conditions or diagnoses eligible and ineligible for
				admission;
2. Orientation process for
				new clients;
3. Services offered
				including, but not limited to, screening, assessment, diagnosis, counseling,
				education, and case management;
4.
				Client rights, that include the acknowledgement that the client is made aware of,
				and has approved, receiving counseling services from a substance abuse
				counselor-intern;
5. Staffing
				patterns;
6. Referral of clients to
				health care providers outside of the facility, including referrals to other
				treatment facilities along the continuum of care;
7. Procedures governing client search and seizure
				that ensures protection of staff and clients, doesn't violate client rights and
				preserves the dignity of clients;
8.
				Emergency care of clients;
9. Care of
				clients during an episode of communicable disease;
10. Care of clients with tuberculosis that is no
				longer communicable or is not transmissible;
11. Informed consent requirements and methodology,
				including provisions for obtaining informed consent from parents or guardians of
				adolescents and the identification of staff designated to obtain informed consent
				from clients, or in the case of an adolescent, the parents or guardians of the
				adolescent;
12. Initiation,
				implementation, review, and revision of a written treatment plan of care to include
				DSM-IV-TR diagnosis, ASAM level of care assessment, measurable goals, objectives and
				treatment outcomes;
13. Health education
				of clients through various media, including written materials that are presented
				multi-lingually on the basis of client composition of the facility;
14. Criteria for discharge, transfer and
				re-admission of clients from the facility;
15. Screening clients for substance use through
				random urinalysis or other approved methods of drug screening on grounds that are
				reasonable and not unfairly discriminatory;
16. Criteria and procedures for conducting of
				research activities;
17. Reporting of
				critical incidents, complaints and threats;
18. Conflict resolution process;
19. Responsibility of the facility with respect to
				client care and supervision off-site, including staff who may accompany clients and
				the identification of destinations for clients or classes of clients;
20. The facility shall develop policies and
				procedures governing the permitting of pets at the facility;
21. When clothing for clients is provided by the
				facility, such clothing shall be suitable for the season, client size and compatible
				with the clothes worn by the client's peers;
22. Policies governing which on-site activities,
				work and/or vocational activities are to be performed by the client.
i. Such activities, that are appropriate to the
				facility include, but are not limited to, clerical functions, housekeeping and light
				manual labor.
ii. The therapeutic
				benefit, along with the client's voluntary written consent to participate in such
				activities, shall be documented in the client's treatment plan.
iii. The client shall sign a client consent form
				verifying their voluntary participation in the activities described in this
				paragraph; and
23. Care and
				documentation of deceased clients, including notification of local law enforcement
				and the Department, pronouncement of death, recording of death in the client's
				clinical record, immediate notification of the deceased client's family, guardian,
				or legal representative, if not present at the time of death, and person responsible
				for the deceased.