North Dakota resident emergency information
North Dakota requires documentation of a fire drill WALK-THROUGH within five days of a resident's admission — the tightest new-resident orientation window found in any state, against Wisconsin's 72 hours for a briefing and Illinois' 10 days. It is a walk-through, not a briefing: the resident physically travels the route.
What North Dakota requires
North Dakota requires documentation of a fire drill WALK-THROUGH within five days of a resident's admission — the tightest new-resident orientation window found in any state, against Wisconsin's 72 hours for a briefing and Illinois' 10 days. It is a walk-through, not a briefing: the resident physically travels the route.
N.D. Admin. Code ch. 33-03-24.1 · North Dakota Dept. of Health and Human Services · checked July 2026Deadline: 5 days from the date the resident is admitted.Counting from admission
Record the admission date beside the orientation date. The orientation date alone shows it happened; the pair shows it happened inside North Dakota’s 5-day window, which is the thing actually being asked. The staff training record is the other half of the same request — we have not published a North Dakota page for it, and both feed the North Dakota readiness sheet.
It stays on your device
Mobility and assistance needs are health information about a named person. Nothing typed here is sent anywhere, and the shared building record keeps only the date an orientation happened — never what the sheet said about the resident.
General information, not legal advice, and not a compliance determination. The rule above is cited and dated to when we last checked it.