Florida Administrative Code
63 - DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE
63N - Mental Health/Substance Abuse/Developmental Disability Services
Chapter 63N-1 - SERVICE DELIVERY
Section 63N-1.0096 - Immediate Response to a Suicide Attempt or Incident of Serious Self-Inflicted Injury
Universal Citation: FL Admin Code R 63N-1.0096
Current through Reg. 50, No. 187; September 24, 2024
(1) Each facility's quarterly mock drills of a Suicide Attempt or Incident of Serious Self-Inflicted Injury must include action to be taken by staff in such circumstances as follows:
(a) Methods for contacting other facility
staff by radio or call for backup support, medical personnel and emergency
medical services (911);
(b)
Provision of life saving measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
and use of the Suicide Response Kit per established
protocol;
(2) Facilities and programs shall maintain a Suicide Response Kit as follows:
(a) In facilities with a control
station/office, each control station/office must contain a Suicide Response
Kit.
(b) In facilities with
subcontrol stations/offices, each subcontrol station/office must contain a
Suicide Response Kit.
(c) In small
facilities with only a check-in station/office, the check-in station/office
must contain a Suicide Response Kit.
(d) The Suicide Response Kit shall be
properly safeguarded and maintained as follows:
1. Each Suicide Response Kit shall contain
emergency rescue tools: "Suicide Rescue Tool, " wire cutters, and needle nose
pliers. The Suicide Response Kit shall also contain first aid items such as a
one-way CPR mask, microshield or face shield, non-latex gloves and first aid
supplies.
2. The Suicide Response
Kit shall be sealed when not in use. Once the seal is broken, the Suicide
Response Kit shall be inventoried, each emergency rescue tool recovered, and
any missing first aid items recovered or replenished and then
re-sealed.
3. All staff who come
into contact with youths must know the location of the Suicide Response Kit and
be trained in its use.
Rulemaking Authority 985.64(2) FS. Law Implemented 985.601(3)(a), 985.14(3)(a), 985.145(1), 985.18, 985.48(4), 985.64(2) FS.
New 3-16-14.
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