Ohio Admin. Code 3701-19-09 - General requirements for hospice care program personnel
(A) Each hospice
care program shall 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 shall 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 hospice care
program shall provide each staff member, including volunteer and contracted
staff members, with a written job description delineating his or her
responsibilities. The program shall assure 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) By staff
members who comply with the program 's employee health policies;
(a) The hospice care program shall have
written employee health policies which include the following requirements for
any staff, including volunteers, temporary agency employees, or paid
consultants used by the hospice program who has direct patient
contact;
(b) The hospice care
program shall have a written plan to ensure the health and safety of hospice
patients that includes policies and procedures regarding screening of staff,
including volunteers, for communicable diseases.
;
(c) The hospice care program shall have
written policies and procedures regarding measures taken to prevent staff,
including volunteers, with direct hospice patient contact who have been
diagnosed with a communicable disease from transmitting this disease to
patients, care givers or other staff. The policies shall indicate when infected
or ill staff must not render direct patient care; and
(d) The hospice care program shall document,
as applicable, compliance with United States department of labor's occupational
safety and health administration, United States. 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.
(5) Documented
in the patient 's central clinical record.
(C) Each hospice care program shall ensure
that all personnel treat each patient and each patient's property with respect,
do not abuse, exploit, or neglect patients, and
do not misappropriate a patient 's property in
accordance with section
3721.23 of the Revised
Code .
(D) Each hospice care
program shall employ personnel without discrimination on the basis of sex, age,
race, creed, national origin, or handicap.
(E) Each hospice care program shall provide
both orientation and ongoing training program for its personnel, including
volunteers.
(1) The orientation shall be
appropriate to the tasks each member will be expected to perform; and
(2) The continuing training shall be designed
to assure maintenance of appropriate skill levels and ensure that all personnel
are informed of changes in techniques, philosophies, and goals of the hospice
care program .
(F) Each
hospice care program shall evaluate the performance of each staff member
regularly.
(G) Except as provided
in Chapter 3701-13 of the Administrative Code, no hospice care program shall
employ a person who applies on or after January 27, 1997, for a position that
involves the provision of direct care to an older adult, 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.
Notes
Promulgated Under: 119.03
Statutory Authority: 3712.03
Rule Amplifies: 3712.01, 3712.06, 3712.09
Prior Effective Dates: 12/31/1990, 09/05/1997, 10/17/1999, 08/23/2009, 02/15/2015
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