Admission Process
Each youth receives a Facility Entry Physical Health Screening by a staff member (health care or non-health care) admitting the youth to a detention center or residential commitment program. The purpose of this screening is to ensure that the youth does not have any health conditions that would require emergency services. This screening does not take the place of the Comprehensive Physical Assessment or other required evaluations. Facility Entry Physical Health Screenings performed by non-healthcare staff are reviewed by the facility nurse on the next nursing shift.
The Comprehensive Physical Assessment is the standardized physical assessment of a youth, conducted by a Physician, an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant at Departmentally specified intervals.
No. A youth who has symptoms suggestive of TB disease and has a positive PPD/TST shall immediately receive a medical evaluation and shall be placed in isolation or an Airborne Infection Isolation Room until active TB disease has been ruled out. The licensed nurse must provide the youth and staff a NIOSH approved disposable particulate TB respiratory mask. The nurse shall be responsible for fit testing the youth and staff to assure the proper sizing of the respiratory mask.