North Carolina Administrative Code
Title 10A - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Chapter 26 - MENTAL HEALTH, GENERAL
Subchapter D - NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTION: STANDARDS FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL RETARDATION
Section .0900 - TREATMENT AND HABILITATION
Section 26D .0902 - ADMISSION ASSESSMENT

Universal Citation: 10A NC Admin Code 26D .0902

Current through Register Vol. 39, No. 6, September 16, 2024

(a) An admission note shall be completed within 24 hours of admission which includes, but need not be limited to:

(1) reason for admission;

(2) present condition of the client reported in objective, behavioral terms, and when possible, a description of the client's condition by others;

(3) diagnostic impression, including a provisional or admitting diagnosis;

(4) determination of and request for additional referrals or special diagnostic tests, assessments or evaluations, if needed; and

(5) a preliminary individual treatment or habilitation plan.

(b) If clinically indicated, a social, educational, medical, criminal, vocational, developmental, and psychiatric history shall be completed within 30 days after admission.

Authority G.S. 148-19(d);
Eff. January 4, 1994;
Pursuant to G.S. 150B-21.3A, rule is necessary without substantive public interest Eff. June 20, 2015.

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