(ii)normal access by a resident to a portion of the
resident's body.
(B)Physical guidance or prompting of brief duration
becomes a restraint if the resident resists the guidance or prompting.
(51)[(49)] Restraints--Chemical
restraints are psychoactive drugs administered for the purposes of
discipline or convenience and are not required to treat the resident's
medical symptoms. Physical restraints are any manual method, or physical
or mechanical device, material, or equipment attached or adjacent
to the resident that restricts freedom of movement. Physical restraints
include restraint holds.
(52)[(50)] Safety--Protection
from injury or loss of life due to such conditions as fire, electrical
hazard, unsafe building or site conditions, and the hazardous presence
of toxic fumes and materials.
(53)[(51)] Seclusion--The involuntary
separation of a resident from other residents and the placement of
the resident alone in an area from which the resident is prevented
from leaving.
(54)[(52)] Service plan--A written
description of the medical care, supervision, or nonmedical care needed
by a resident.
(55)[(53)] Short-term acute
episode--An illness of less than 30 days duration.
(56)[(54)] Small facility--A
facility licensed for 16 or fewer residents.
(57)[(55)] Staff--Employees
of an assisted living facility.
(58)[(56)] Standards--The minimum
conditions, requirements, and criteria established in this chapter
with which a facility must comply to be licensed under this chapter.
(59)[(57)] Terminal condition--A
medical diagnosis, certified by a physician, of an illness that will
result in death in six months or less.
(60)[(58)] Universal precautions--An
approach to infection control in which blood, any body fluids visibly
contaminated with blood, and all body fluids in situations where it
is difficult or impossible to differentiate between body fluids are
treated as if known to be infectious for HIV, hepatitis B, and other
blood-borne pathogens.
(61)[(59)] Vaccine Preventable
Diseases--The diseases included in the most current recommendations
of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices of the CDC [
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention].
(62)[(60)] Working day--Any
24-hour period, Monday through Friday, excluding state and federal
holidays.
The agency certifies that legal counsel has
reviewed the proposal and found it to be within the state agency's
legal authority to adopt.
Filed with the Office
of the Secretary of State on January 4, 2016
TRD-201600016 Lawrence Hornsby
General Counsel
Department of Aging and Disability Services
Earliest possible date of adoption: February 14, 2016
For further information, please call: (210) 619-8292
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