Emergency Medical Response
This policy ensures that youth at NBYDC and YSC who demonstrate medical, mental health, or dental emergencies receive medical critical care according to urgency.
What is the Medical Emergency Response policy?
Youth should be lined up according to height and searched when moving from one location to another.
What is the Youth Supervision and Movement Policy?
Staff are stationed in the entrance to the sleeping area with the room door open, on this type of Suicide Precaution Status (SPS).
What is SPS-1?
The form used to ensure that all contraband is easily located and accounted for.
What is the Chain of Custody form?
In order to ensure uniformity in reporting procedures and format, this form is used whenever a situation occurs which may impact the integrity within the secure facilities.
What is the Unusual Incident Report Form?
As part of pre-service training, all new employees receive this type of training.
What is CPR/First Aid/AED training?
If a youth is upset and out of control, an SYDR can direct staff to use handcuffs.
What is the Use of Mechanical Restraints policy?
Conditions or variables that tend to heighten the youth's feelings of vulnerability or enhanced likelihood of hurting themselves.
What are Triggers?
A soldered ring containing master keys to secure housing units, administration building, school and facility access points.
What are Emergency Keys?
Incidents which are serious in nature but do not present a significant risk to the facility, public safety or attract media attention are what type of incidents?
What are Class II incidents?
A type of drill that simulates medical, behavioral health, or dental emergency.
What is an Emergency medical response drill?
All persons entering a DYRS secure facility shall empty their pockets and place personal items in a basket before they go through the metal detector in the lobby.
What is the Identification and Searches (of Staff, Visitors, Vechicles, and Youth) policy?
The form name that direct care staff document youth observations.
What is the Suicide Precaution Status Observation Form?
An intentional act using bodily fluids or that causes injury requiring medical care.
What is Serious Youth on Staff Assaults?
DYRS staff, contractors and their agents within the secure facilities shall submit their completed incident reports to this person.
What is the Supervisory Youth Development Representative (SYDR)?
The process of immediately assessing the youth's mental status and need for acute psychiatric care.
What is a behavioral health assessment?
After every altercation resulting in physical contact or incident in which staff use force against a youth, staff shall immediately notify medical staff of the incident and medical staff must promptly assess the youth and complete an Incident Assessment Report or a Refusal of Health Care Services form, if the youth refuses medical assessment.
What is the Unusual Incident Reporting form?
A brief mental health screening tool for routine administration at entry to any juvenile justice facility or service.
What is the MAYSI-2?
Denial of daily education, denial of daily opportunity for exercise, denial of reading material, denial of counsel or corporal punishment of any kind.
What are Prohibitied Sanctions?
This person shall review the database entries, Staff Incident Notification Forms, Medical Forms, Room Confinement Forms and incident video footage.
What is the Compliance Specialist?
This device is one part of the cardiac chain of survival - in addition to 1)calling 9-1-1 and 2)CPR.
What is 3) Using an Automated External Defibrillator (AED)?
The daily assessment shall focus on current behavior, as well as changes in thoughts and behaviors during the past 24 hours
What is the Suicide Prevention policy?
Youth are observed at staggered intervals, not to exceed every 10 minutes, on this type of Suicide Precaution Status (SPS).
SPS-2?
This type of restraint requires authorization from the highest ranking official on facility grounds at the time, and shall be documented by staff.
What is the Use of Mechanical Restraints?
When Class I and Class II incidents occur, the most senior security staff at the site of the incident shall do this.
What is initiate the Secure Facility Call Down procedure?