Section 75-03-17-10 - Education and training1.Public education. Any primary or secondary program offered by a facility must be in compliance with standards established by the department of public instruction. The facility shall ensure that children comply with all state school attendance laws.2.Employee training. The facility shall provide quarterly training to employees which is relevant to address the changing needs of the milieu and according to the requirements of the facility's accrediting body. a. All employees on duty must have satisfactorily completed annual training on current first aid, therapeutic crisis intervention or crisis prevention intervention, suicide awareness and prevention training, standard precautions as used by the centers for disease control and prevention, training on institutional child abuse and neglect to include reporting requirements and prohibition of employer retaliation for reporting, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation training and have on file at the facility a certificate of satisfactory completion prior to having direct contact with residents. A certificate must be provided to each employee demonstrating their competencies in cardiopulmonary resuscitation on an annual basis and therapeutic crisis intervention on a semi-annual basis. An employee who is in orientation status and who is in the process of completing the required trainings and background check may be allowed to job shadow with an employee who the facility has deemed to be an experienced and competent employee to supervise during orientation status. The facility ensures that employees who are in orientation status are always under the supervision of experienced employees and are not left alone with the children until all required training and background check has been completed.b. Each employee must be able to recognize the common symptoms of illnesses of children, signs and symptoms of an overdose, and to note any marked physical defects of children. The facility shall ensure a sterile clinical thermometer and a complete first-aid kit are available.3.Discipline. A facility shall create a trauma-informed culture that promotes respect, healing, and positive behaviors and which minimizes the use of restrictive behavior management interventions to the extent possible. Discipline must be constructive or educational in nature and follow the discipline guidelines of the facility's accrediting body. A facility shall adopt and implement written policies and procedures for discipline and behavior management consistent with the following:a. Only employees of the facility may prescribe, administer, or supervise the discipline of children. Authority to discipline may not be delegated to children or nonemployees.b. A child may not be slapped, punched, spanked, shaken, pinched, roughly handled, struck with an object, or receive any inappropriate physical treatment.c. Verbal abuse and derogatory actions or remarks about the child, the child's family, religion, or cultural background may not be used or permitted.d. A child may not be locked in any room.e. The facility shall develop and implement a youth-guided, family-driven plan of discipline as part of the child's person-centered treatment planning, emphasizing the use of positive behavior supports and therapeutic interventions, that promote an effective means of discipline. Daily documentation must reflect whether the interventions are effective and if they need revising.N.D. Admin Code 75-03-17-10
Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2014-352, April 2014, effective April 1, 2014. .Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2016-360, April 2016, effective 4/1/2016.Amended by Administrative Rules Supplement 2022-385, July 2022, effective 7/1/2022.General Authority: NDCC 25-03.2-10
Law Implemented: NDCC 25-03.2-03, 25-03.2-07