Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-115 - Behavioral Health Paraprofessionals; Behavioral Health Technicians
If a health care institution is a behavioral health facility or is authorized by the Department to provide behavioral health services, an administrator shall ensure that:
1.
Policies and procedures are established, documented, and implemented that:
a. Delineate the services a behavioral health
paraprofessional is allowed to provide at or for the health care
institution;
b. Cover supervision
of a behavioral health paraprofessional, including documentation of
supervision;
c. Establish the
qualifications for a behavioral health professional providing supervision to a
behavioral health paraprofes-sional;
d. Delineate the services a behavioral health
technician is allowed to provide at or for the health care
institution;
e. Cover clinical
oversight for a behavioral health technician, including documentation of
clinical oversight;
f. Establish
the qualifications for a behavioral health professional providing clinical
oversight to a behavioral health technician;
g. Delineate the methods used to provide
clinical oversight, including when clinical oversight is provided on an
individual basis or in a group setting; and
h. Establish the process by which information
pertaining to services provided by a behavioral health technician is provided
to the behavioral health professional who is responsible for the clinical
oversight of the behavioral health technician;
2. A behavioral health paraprofessional
receives supervision according to policies and procedures;
3. Clinical oversight is provided to a
behavioral health technician to ensure that patient needs are met based on, for
each behavioral health technician:
a. The
scope and extent of the services provided,
b. The acuity of the patients receiving
services, and
c. The number of
patients receiving services;
4. A behavioral health technician receives
clinical oversight at least once during each two week period, if the behavioral
health technician provides services related to patient care at the health care
institution during the two week period;
5. When clinical oversight is provided
electronically:
a. The clinical oversight is
provided verbally with direct and immediate interaction between the behavioral
health professional providing and the behavioral health technician receiving
the clinical oversight,
b. A secure
connection is used, and
c. The
identities of the behavioral health professional providing and the behavioral
health technician receiving the clinical oversight are verified before clinical
oversight is provided; and
6. A behavioral health professional provides
supervision to a behavioral health paraprofessional or clinical oversight to
behavioral health technician within the behavioral health professional's scope
of practice established in the applicable licensing requirements under A.R.S.
Title 32.
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