Duty of Employees Who Transmit or Record Patient Communications

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Mental Health and Substance Abuse and Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
4. General Rules Applicable to Service Recipients
5. Special Liability Rules
6. Duty of Employees Who Transmit or Record Patient Communications

IF AND ONLY IF

1. an employee of a service provider is normally responsible for transmitting or recording communications from a service recipient to a qualified mental health professional or behavior analyst, AND
2. the employee receives a communication from a service recipient of an actual threat of bodily harm against a clearly identified victim,

   THEN

3. the employee shall communicate the threat to the professional employed by the service provider.

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