Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Each pediatric respite care program
is obligated
to utilize personnel that have appropriate training and qualifications
for the services that they provide. Any staff member, including a volunteer,
who functions in a professional capacity, is obligated to
meet the standards applicable to that profession, including but not limited to
possessing current Ohio licensure, registration, or certification, if required
by law, and practicing within the applicable scope of practice.
(B) The pediatric respite care program
is obligated
to provide each staff member, including volunteer and contracted staff
members, with a written job description delineating his or her
responsibilities. The program is obligated to ensure that the services provided by
staff members, including volunteers and contracted staff, are provided:
(1) In accordance with the patients' plans of
care;
(2) In accordance with the
policies and procedures developed by the interdisciplinary team;
(3) In accordance with current and accepted
standards of practice;
(4)
Documented in the patient's central clinical record; and
(5) By staff members who comply with the
program's employee health policies.
(a) The
pediatric respite care program is obligated to have written employee health policies
which include the following requirements for any staff member, including a
volunteer, temporary agency employee, or paid consultant used by the pediatric
respite care program who has direct pediatric respite patient
contact;
(b) The pediatric respite
care program is obligated to have a written plan to ensure the
health and safety of pediatric respite patients that includes policies and
procedures regarding screening of staff, including volunteers, for communicable
diseases.
(c) The pediatric respite
care program is obligated to have written policies and procedures
regarding measures taken to prevent staff, including volunteers, with direct
pediatric respite patient contact who have been diagnosed with a communicable
disease from transmitting this disease to patients, care givers or other
staff
including when infected or ill staff must not
render direct patient care; and
(d)
The pediatric respite care program
is obligated to document compliance with U.S. department of
labor's occupational safety and health administration, U.S. centers for disease
control and prevention and applicable Ohio department of health standards
concerning health requirements for staff provision of services in health care
settings, including requirements for maintaining tuberculosis
control.
(C)
Each pediatric respite care program is obligated to
ensure that all personnel treat each patient and the patient's property with
respect, not abuse or neglect patients, and not misappropriate a patient's
property.
(D) Each pediatric
respite care program is obligated to provide both orientation and onging
training for its personnel, including volunteers if the pediatric respite care
program utilizes volunteers.
(E)
Each pediatric respite care program is obligated to
evaluate the performance of each staff member regularly.
(F) Except as provided in Chapter 3701-13 of
the Administrative Code, no pediatric respite care program
will
employ a person who applies on or after January 27, 1997, for a position that
involves the provision of direct care, if the person:
(1) Has been convicted of or pleaded guilty
to an offense listed in division (C)(1) of section
3712.09 of the Revised Code;
or
(2) Fails to complete the
form(s) or provide fingerprint impressions as required by division (B)(3) of
section 3712.09 of the Revised
Code.
(G) Nothing in
this rule
forbids the continuation of care or provision of
services by a home health agency, hospice care program, or other personal care
services provider that is under contract with the pediatric respite care
patient or the pediatric respite care patient's family while the pediatric
respite care patient is at the respite facility. If a pediatric respite care
patient or pediatric respite care patient's family wishes to have privately
contracted services continue while the pediatric respite care patient is in the
repsite facility, the pediatric respite care program will:
(1) Enter into a written agreement with each
of the following:
(a) The pediatric respite
care patient, the pediatric respite care patient's family, or both;
and
(b) The provider of the
identified service.
(2)
The written agreement required by this paragraph
will include a
statement signed by all parties acknowledging that they understand the
agreement and that the pediatric respite care patient's needs will be met while
the pediatric respite care patient is in the respite facility. The agreement
will
not be considered complete without this signed
statement,
and the following information:
(a)
Identification
of the services to be provided; and
(b)
An attestation
that:
(i)
All care will be provided within the provider's scope
of practice;
(ii)
All care provided shall be documented and made part of
the pediatric respite care patient's medical record; and
(iii)
All services
will be furnished in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 3712. of the
Revised Code and Chapters 3701-13 and 3701-19 of the Administrative Code.
