New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 75 - PSYCHIATRIC RESIDENTIAL TREATMENT FACILITY SERVICES FOR INDIVIDUALS UNDER AGE 21
Subchapter 3 - EMERGENCY SAFETY INTERVENTIONS
Section 10:75-3.2 - Definitions

The following words and terms, as used in this subchapter, shall have the following meanings, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Drug used as a restraint" means any drug that is administered to manage a resident's behavior in a way that reduces the safety risk to the resident or others; has the temporary effect of restricting the resident's freedom of movement; and is not a standard treatment for the resident's medical or psychiatric condition.

"Emergency safety intervention" means the use of any form of restraint or seclusion as an immediate response to stabilize an emergency safety situation.

"Emergency safety situation" means unanticipated resident behavior that places either the resident or other beneficiaries and/or staff, at serious threat of violence or injury if no intervention occurs and calls for an emergency safety intervention because non-restraining interventions have not worked to deescalate the situation.

"Mechanical restraint" means any device attached or adjacent to the resident's body, that he or she cannot easily remove, that restricts freedom of movement or normal access to his or her body.

"Personal restraint" means the application of physical force without the use of any device, for the purpose of restricting the free movement of a resident's body. Personal restraint does not include briefly holding a resident in order to calm or comfort the resident, or holding a resident's hand or arm to safely escort a resident from one area to another.

"Restraint" means a personal hold of any duration, a mechanical restraint, or a drug used as a restraint.

"Seclusion" means involuntary confinement of a resident alone in a room or an area from which the resident is physically prevented from leaving. A "time out" intervention is not considered seclusion.

"Time out" means the restriction of a resident for a period of time in a designated area from which the resident is not physically prevented from leaving, for the purpose of providing the resident an opportunity to regain self-control.