CORRECT ANSWERS
Regulated Practice: Rationale - CORRECT ANSWERS -to protect the public
-regulated professions are usually members of a corresponding professional college
-must be registered to work
-all health profession colleges are licensed at provincial level
Regulated Practices: British Columbia - CORRECT ANSWERS 26 regulated health
professions, 25 are self regulating governed by 23 regulatory colleges under the Regulated
Health Professions Act , One profession is regulated by a government appointed licensing board
under seperate statue
Objectives of Regulated Health Professions Act (RPHA) - CORRECT ANSWERS -protect
public from harm
-promote high quality care
-give the public access to health care professions of their choice
-treat individual patients/ clients and health professionals in an equal manner
RHPA Intent and Scope - CORRECT ANSWERS Increase direct-to-consumer access to a
wider variety of professionals
-not all regulated professions are covered by medical services plan
-provides common framework for regulation of all health professions
-defines scope of practice
BC Regulatory Colleges - CORRECT ANSWERS College of Chiropractors BC
College of Dental Hygienists
,College of Dental Surgeons, etc.
Role of Colleges - CORRECT ANSWERS -under law, must serve and protect
-regulates profession/ self called regulation
-set entry to practice standards
-set and enforce the standards of their professions
-ensure their members comply with the acts, regulations, codes, and by laws that apply to their
profession
-promote competence
-develop codes of ethics
Regulated Practice - CORRECT ANSWERS regulation of occupations can be in the form of
certification, license, or registration
-task based regulatory models
-reserved or controlled acts
Controlled Acts Model - CORRECT ANSWERS differs from scope of practice
-controlled acts: thirteen procedures that if not done correctly by a competent person, have a
high element of risk
Controlled Acts Include - CORRECT ANSWERS communicating a diagnosis
-performing a procedure on the tissues below the dermis
-moving joints of spine beyond ROM
-setting or casting a fracture of a bone
-admin. substance by injection or inhalation
-prescribing, dispensing, selling drugs
,Who can perform controlled acts - CORRECT ANSWERS - must be regulated professional
-none of them are authorized to perform all 13 acts
-medical doctors can perform 12 of 13
-some cant perform any
-some can be performed by more then one profession
-uncontrolled acts are opent to all, including unregulated workers
CAM Regulation - CORRECT ANSWERS Practitioners
-largely unregulated
-wide variation in training/ credentials
Products
-NHP Natural Health Products
-Regulations
Health Care Practitioners - CORRECT ANSWERS -regulated under RHPA (physicians,
pharmacists
-"Drugless Practitioners" person who practises the treatment of aliment, disease, defect or
disability of the human body by manipulation, electro therapy, adjustment
-unregulated practitioners (homeopaths, herbalists_
RHPA Regulated Practioners - CORRECT ANSWERS -must stay w/in their designated scopes
of practice
-must maintain the practice and ethical standards set by their colleges
-accountable for their actions
Chiropractors - CORRECT ANSWERS -regulated under RHPA
, -two colleges in Canada (Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College, Toronto... and Universite du
Quebec a Trio Riveires (UQTR)
-Doctor of Chiropractice: DC degree
Naturopathic Practitioners - CORRECT ANSWERS -Regulated under Drugless Practitioners
Act (1925)
-Two Canadian Colleges
-ND (Naturopathic Doctor Degree
-Trained in a range of CAM modalities including: botanical medicine, nutrition, homeopathy,
TCM etc.
Unregulated Practitioners - CORRECT ANSWERS -Paid providers who are neither licensed
not registered
-no legal requirement or restriction on practice with regaurd to license
-variation in training/ experience
-not accountable
-herbal medicine/ homeopathy
TCM/ Acupuncture - CORRECT ANSWERS -regulated in BC ( not other provinces)
-many degrees and training institutions
-wide variety in quality and standards
Homeopathy - CORRECT ANSWERS -not currently regulated
-many different training institutions /credentials
-based on 2 primary principles (like cures like, and use of minimum dose)
-controversial evidence based
-generally non toxic