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⩥ Health Professions Act (HPA). Answer: -Requires all health
professional colleges to follow common rules to investigate complaints
and set educational and practice standards for registered members
-Regulates the standards health professionals must follow
-Intended to protect the public by ensuring only competent,ethical
professionals practice in health care settings
⩥ Why is the Health Professions Act Important?. Answer: Public will
have a better understanding of the accountability of health professionals
and their regulatory colleges through common processes to register
health professionals, investigate and resolve complaints and discipline
practitioners
⩥ What are the parts of the Health Professions Act?. Answer: 1-9:
common to all of the Health Professions; establishment of colleges,
registration and continuing competence, investigation of complaints and
protection of professional titles
Part 10: profession specific
, ⩥ Definition of Standards of Care. Answer: The law requires a medical
practitioner to exercise the care and skill that could reasonably be
expected of a normal, prudent practitioner of the same experience and
standing
⩥ 4 elements of negligence. Answer: 1) the defendant must owe the
plaintiff a duty of care
2) the defendant must breach the standard of care established by law
3) the plaintiff must suffer an injury or loss
4) the defendant's conduct must have been the actual and legal cause of
the plaintiff's injury
⩥ Intentional torts. Answer: Assault
Battery
Invasion of privacy
False imprisonment
⩥ Intentional tort: Assault. Answer: Is conduct (such as a physical or
verbal threat) that creates in another person apprehension or fear of
imminent harmful or offensive contact. No actual contact is necessary.
⩥ Intentional Torts: Battery. Answer: Intentional physical contact with a
person without that persons consent.