New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 8 - HEALTH
Chapter 42C - HOSPICE LICENSING STANDARDS
Subchapter 3 - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
Section 8:42C-3.4 - Personnel
Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 6, March 18, 2024
(a) The hospice shall ensure that the duties and responsibilities of all personnel are described in job descriptions and in the policy and procedure manual for each service.
(b) All personnel of whom licensure, certification, or authorization to provide patient care is required shall be licensed, certified, or authorized under the appropriate laws or rules of the State of New Jersey.
(c) All personnel, both directly employed and under contract to provide direct care to patients, shall at all times wear or produce upon request employee identification.
(d) The hospice shall have policies and procedures for the maintenance of confidential personnel records for each employee, including at least his or her name, previous employment, educational background, license number with effective date and date of expiration (if applicable), certification (if applicable), verification of credentials and references, the criminal background check required pursuant to 42 CFR 418.114(d), health evaluation records, job description, and evaluations of job performance.
(e) All new personnel, both directly employed and under contract to provide direct patient care, as well as volunteers, shall receive an initial health evaluation which includes at least a documented history.
(f) Health records shall be maintained for each employee and volunteer. Employee, as well as volunteer, health records shall be confidential, and kept separate from personnel records.
(g) Employee, as well as volunteer, health records shall include documentation of all medical screening tests performed and the results.
(h) All personnel, both directly employed and under contract to provide direct care to patients, as well as volunteers, shall receive a Mantoux tuberculin skin test with five tuberculin units of purified protein derivative or have blood drawn for an interferon gamma release assay (IGRA).
(i) All personnel, both directly employed and under contract to provide direct care to patients, as well as volunteers, shall be given a rubella screening test using the rubella hemagglutination inhibition test or other rubella screening test. The only exceptions are personnel who can document seropositivity from a previous rubella screening test or who can document inoculation with rubella vaccine, or when medically contraindicated.
(j) All personnel, both directly employed and under contract to provide direct care to patients, as well as volunteers, who were born in 1957 or later shall be given a (measles) rubeola screening test using the hemagglutination inhibition test or other rubeola screening test. The only exceptions are personnel who can document receipt of live measles vaccine on or after their first birthday, physician-diagnosed measles, or serologic evidence of immunity.
(k) A hospice shall have available and comply with the guidelines listed below, incorporated herein by reference, as amended and supplemented: