Minnesota Administrative Rules

2960.0630 CLINICAL SUPERVISION BY MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONAL.

Subpart 1.

Mental health professional consultation.

The license holder must ensure that the residential program employs or contracts with a mental health professional to provide consultation relating to the planning, development, implementation, and evaluation of program services.

Subp. 2.

Supervision of staff.

A mental health professional must provide at least weekly face-to-face clinical supervision to staff providing program services to a resident. The mental health professional:

A.

must provide clinical supervision of staff either individually or as a group;

B.

must document the clinical supervision of staff;

C.

must advise the facility director about the planning, development, and implementation of staff development and evaluation; and

D.

may provide consultation instead of clinical supervision to other mental health professionals under contract or employed by the license holder to provide program services to a resident.

Subp. 3.

Supervision of treatment.

A mental health professional must:

A.

supervise the diagnostic assessment of each resident in the facility and the development of each resident's individual treatment plan;

B.

document involvement in the treatment planning process by signing the individual treatment plan;

C.

supervise the implementation of the individual treatment plan and the ongoing documentation and evaluation of each resident's progress, including the quarterly progress review; and

D.

document on a biweekly basis a review of all the program services provided for the resident in the preceding weeks.

The license holder must ensure that the mental health professional can be reached for consultation about a mental health emergency, at least by telephone, within 30 minutes.

Statutory Authority:

L 1995 c 226 art 3 s 60; MS s 241.021; 245A.03; 245A.09

History:

28 SR 211

Published Electronically:

August 5, 2008