Section 63N-1.0096 - Immediate Response to a Suicide Attempt or Incident of Serious Self-Inflicted Injury(1) Each facility's quarterly mock drills of a Suicide Attempt or Incident of Serious Self-Inflicted Injury must include action to be taken by staff in such circumstances as follows: (a) Methods for contacting other facility staff by radio or call for backup support, medical personnel and emergency medical services (911);(b) Provision of life saving measures such as cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and use of the Suicide Response Kit per established protocol;(2) Facilities and programs shall maintain a Suicide Response Kit as follows: (a) In facilities with a control station/office, each control station/office must contain a Suicide Response Kit.(b) In facilities with subcontrol stations/offices, each subcontrol station/office must contain a Suicide Response Kit.(c) In small facilities with only a check-in station/office, the check-in station/office must contain a Suicide Response Kit.(d) The Suicide Response Kit shall be properly safeguarded and maintained as follows: 1. Each Suicide Response Kit shall contain emergency rescue tools: "Suicide Rescue Tool, " wire cutters, and needle nose pliers. The Suicide Response Kit shall also contain first aid items such as a one-way CPR mask, microshield or face shield, non-latex gloves and first aid supplies.2. The Suicide Response Kit shall be sealed when not in use. Once the seal is broken, the Suicide Response Kit shall be inventoried, each emergency rescue tool recovered, and any missing first aid items recovered or replenished and then re-sealed.3. All staff who come into contact with youths must know the location of the Suicide Response Kit and be trained in its use.Fla. Admin. Code Ann. R. 63N-1.0096
Rulemaking Authority 985.64(2) FS. Law Implemented 985.601(3)(a), 985.14(3)(a), 985.145(1), 985.18, 985.48(4), 985.64(2) FS.