New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 42 - MECHANICAL RESTRAINTS AND SAFEGUARDING EQUIPMENT
Subchapter 3 - APPLICATION AND IMPLEMENTATION
Section 10:42-3.5 - Quality management
Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 10:42-3.5
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 18, September 16, 2024
(a) Consistent with the entity's Division-approved policies and procedures established pursuant to 10:42-3.1, entities shall establish a process for analyzing restraint utilization and reviewing the use of mechanical restraints for the purpose of reducing reliance upon mechanical restraints, quality improvement, and risk management.
1. Each entity that employs mechanical
restraints shall have a committee that provides oversight by meeting,
reviewing, and documenting the review of the use of mechanical restraints.
These reviews shall include examination of trends and patterns of
use.
2. Entities utilizing
mechanical restraints must have a mechanism for reviewing all use and
identifying future prevention measures with the goal of reducing or eliminating
all use. This can be included in the entity's overall quality management
plan.
3. Entities must collect and
maintain data on all use of mechanical restraints and regularly analyze such
data to identify trends in use by entity, program/service, and
individual.
4. Entities utilizing
mechanical restraints pursuant to
10:42-2.2(a)1 or
2 shall provide the Division with data on the use of these
restraints.
5. Entities utilizing
mechanical restraints must review all incidents related to injury or
unauthorized use and implement corrective action. A mechanism to analyze use
incidents and determine future prevention measures is required.
6. Entities utilizing mechanical restraints
are required to maintain documentation of the implementation of teaching
strategies or alternate program activities intended to increase the
individual's capacity to utilize and/or respond to more proactive and positive
coping strategies that are intended to replace the use of mechanical
restraints.
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