Ariz. Admin. Code § 9-10-115

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 50, December 13, 2024

Section 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.

Ariz. Admin. Code § R9-10-115

Adopted effective February 4, 1981 (Supp. 81-1). Amended by final rulemaking 16 A.A.R. 688, effective November 1, 2010 (Supp. 10-2). Section repealed; new Section made by exempt rulemaking at 19 A.A.R. 2015, effective October 1, 2013 (Supp. 13-2). Amended by exempt rulemaking at 20 A.A.R. 1409, effective 7/1/2014. Amended by final rulemaking at 25 A.A.R. 1583, effective 10/1/2019.