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Critical Incident Report User Guide Form 470-4698 - Iowa Medicaid ...

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<strong>Iowa</strong> Department of Human ServicesIMPA <strong>Incident</strong> <strong>Report</strong>ing <strong>Form</strong>IMPA <strong>User</strong>s <strong>Guide</strong> – Revised May, 2010MOVEMENT INHIBITED: - Any restriction of physical movement in which the member remains on their feet or ina seated position for the purposes of controlling aggressive or agitated behavior.TAKE DOWN: - Gripping, handling and controlling of a member to bring the member into submission for thepurpose of gaining quick control due to aggression or agitation.PRONE RESTRAINT: - Physical holding of the member in a prone position, usually on the floor, for the purpose ofgaining quick control due to aggression or agitation. Prone restraint is the extended restraint past the time ofimmediate struggle.OTHER: - Select and describe the mechanical restraint in the narrative box.Figure 15: Physical Injury Due to Personal Harm, Part 2 <strong>Incident</strong> TypePlease select all that apply. Fields in the PersonalHarm section of the <strong>Incident</strong> Type include:AGGRESSIVE BEHAVIOR: - Overt orsuppressed hostility, either innate or resulting fromcontinued frustration and directed outward or againstoneself. Hostile or destructive behavior or actions.SELF-MUTILATION / SELF-INJURIOUSBEHAVIOR: - Behaviors that are harmful to oneself,including deliberate self-injury, such as hitting,oneself, or behaviors that indirectly cause injury orharm, such as repeatedly rubbing an area of skin untilit bleeds.SUICIDE ATTEMPT: - The member’s verbal,non-verbal or written threat to kill him/herself. An incident involving an act (attempt) to harm, injure or killoneself.PICA BEHAVIOR / INGESTION OF HARMFUL SUBSTANCE: - Swallowing and/or ingesting substances that are nonfoodand potentially threatening to the health of the member, e.g., plants, poison, lotions, coins, paper clips,cigarette butts (PICA behavior).ACCIDENTAL FALL: - Happening by chance or accident; not planned; unexpected. The act or instance of falling ordropping from a higher to a lower place or position.INGESTED / ASPIRATION / CHOKING: - The inhaling of food or other object in the lung (aspiration) orchoking.SEIZURE: - A sudden attack, spasm, or convulsion, as in epilepsy.VEHICULAR ACCIDENT: - When a road vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, or geographicalor architectural obstacle. Any vehicular accident involving the member.ASSAULT: - A violent physical or verbal attack. Threatening or attempting to inflict immediate bodily harm that aperson has the ability to inflict and that puts the victim in fear of such harm or contact.OTHER: - Select and describe the personal harm in the narrative box.Figure 16: Physical Injury Due to an Environmental Condition, Part 2 <strong>Incident</strong> TypePlease select all that apply. Fields in the Environmental Conditionsection of the <strong>Incident</strong> Type include:FIRE: - Environmental hazards that place the member inimmediate jeopardy due to a fire.TORNADO / STORM: - Environmental hazards that placethe member in immediate jeopardy due to severeweather such as a thunderstorm or tornado.FLOODING: - Environmental hazards that place thePage 16

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