Residential Department Memorandum

[Audio] Incident reports should be considered a priority matter: 5. 4.2 Incident Report CFC- 33 Instructions: MHMR policies that the Nursing staff and supervisors/ directors have 24 hours to review, sign, and forward the original incident report to the next person for review. Supervisors can copy the original incident report for follow-up purposes. Please note on the incident report if additional follow-up information will be forwarded to the Quality Management Department at a later date. The staff should call the direct supervisor about the incident, the staff writes the report, and the residential home supervisor should be questioning the staff if they have finished the report before the allowing one hour. If we do all of this being mentioned. As a department, we will be able to meet the organizational written standards (supervisors/directors have 24 hours to review, sign, and forward the original incident report to the next person for review). 1. Staff need to alert the nursing department and their direct supervisor of the incident as soon as it happens. 2. The direct supervisor will notify the Residential Program Manager (PM) and Administrator ( Admin) of the incident through email or text. 3. Lastly, the direct supervisor will get the report from the reporting staff and turn the report into the Program Manager or Administrator (in person). Either the PM or Admin will then submit the documentation to the Nursing department. Failure to follow the above directives concerning submitting incident reports will result in disciplinary action up to separation from your employment with Denton County MHMR if the issue continues to occur after corrective actions have been discussed and implemented. After reviewing this video. You are required to review and sign the Memorandum for this video. The Memorandum will ask you to acknowledge receipt of the memorandum. By signing you are stating you have read and understood the contents of the memorandum..