HAR §11-175-40. Right of privacy, respect and personal dignity

Psychiatric facilities and residential treatment facilities shall: (1) Require that staff members address each consumer by the consumer's legal name or a version thereof to which the consumer has 175 - 33 2732 11-175-40 agreed. Adult consumers shall not be addressed in terms which imply that they are children; (2) Protect consumers from abuse and neglect; (3) Inform consumers in advance of a tour of a psychiatric facility or residential treatment facility and provide consumers the opportunity to move to an area not included in the tour; (4) Respect the privacy of consumers and not interfere with consumers' socially appropriate behavior, as specified in facility policies and procedures; (5) Search a consumer's belongings or living area only upon admission, after a leave of absence, in a life-threatening emergency, or if there is reasonable cause to believe an illegal item or item prohibited by the program's rules has been hidden; (6) Search belongings only in the presence of the consumer and a witness; (7) Search a consumer's person only by a staff member of the same sex as the consumer, in private, and only if there is reasonable cause to believe that such a search will reveal an illegal item or an item prohibited by the program's rules. [Eff. and comp DEC 30 1988; comp OCT 19 2007] (Auth: HRS §321-9) (Imp: HRS §334E-2)