Criminal Background Checks, Health Care Personnel Registry and Exclusion Screening
Requires a Health Care Personnel Registry check before hiring any unlicensed staff with direct access, with each access noted; Nurse Aide Registry listing for nurse aides; a criminal background check on everyone with direct patient contact or access to patient records (North Carolina has no hospice-specific statute, so the federal standard and the Agency's own standard apply); and federal exclusion screening before hire and monthly.
About this policy
- Policy number
- NC-HSP-HR-03
- Version
- 1.0
- Main rule
- G.S. 131E-256(d2)
- Library
- North Carolina hospice · 60 policies
- Category
- Human resources
- Sections
- 19
In short
- Before anyone is hired, we check the North Carolina Health Care Personnel Registry and note that we checked.
- Nurse aides must be listed on the Nurse Aide Registry.
- Everyone with patient contact or access to patient records has a criminal background check before working alone with patients.
- We check federal exclusion lists before hire and every month.
- Tell your supervisor within one business day of any arrest, charge, conviction, registry finding or exclusion.
What's inside
19 sections. The full text comes with the One-time Policy Pack.
- Terms of Reference
- 1. Purpose
- 2. Scope
- 3. Definitions
- 4. Policy Statement (G.S. 131E-256(d2))
- 5. What the Rules Require
- 6. The Agency's Screening Standard
- 6.1 Starting work while a check is pending
- 7. Assessing Results
- 8. After Hire
- 9. Contracted Staff
- 10. Confidentiality
- 11. Responsibilities
- 12. Records and Compliance Monitoring
- 13. Staff Training
- 14. References
- 15. Related Policies and Forms
- 16. Approval
- 17. Revision History
An inspector may ask
- Show me that you accessed the Health Care Personnel Registry before hiring this aide, and where you noted it.
- What criminal background check did you obtain for this employee, and when?
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