CMTBC Law & Ethics Questions with Complete Solutions, Graded A+ Updated December 2024

CMTBC Law & Ethics Questions with Complete Solutions, Graded A+ Updated December 2024 The College is run by a - ANSWER -Board of Directors Board of Directors - how many are registrants? - ANSWER -Six (6) Who are the Board of Directors registrants elected by? - ANSWER -Registrants of the College No less than ___________ members of the Board are appointed by the Provincial Government - ANSWER -Three (3) Currently there are ___________ elected registrant on the Board of Directors - 2021 - ANSWER -Five (5) By law there cannot be more - ANSWER -public representatives on the Board than elected representatives The Board is responsible for - ANSWER -governing, controlling, and administering the affairs of the College The Board also hires the _______________________ of the College - ANSWER -Registrar & CEO The Registrar & CEO are responsible for - ANSWER -hiring staff The Registrar - ANSWER -directs the day-to-day operations of the College staff and answers directly to the Board 2 | P a g e Created by ©EmilyCharlene 2025. All rights reserved. -They may designate an officer, employee or agent of the College to exercise any power or perform any duty of the Registrar assigned by the Registrar, and that person has the same authority as the Registrar when acting on behalf of the Registrar - The Registrar is authorized to establish, by bylaw, forms for the purposes of the bylaws, and to require the use of such forms by Registrants What is the main difference between the registrant members and the public representatives on the Board of the College? - ANSWER -The registrant members are chosen by registrants and the public representatives are chosen by government. Fiscal year - ANSWER -The fiscal year of the College commences on January 1 of a year and ends on December 31 of the same year An organization may only disclose personal information about an individual without the consent of the individual, if ... - ANSWER -it is reasonable to expect that the disclosure with the consent of the individual would compromise an investigation or proceeding and the disclosure is reasonable for purposes related to an investigation or a proceeding The Standards of Practice focus on - ANSWER -standards of patient care in providing treatment. - They deal with matters such as assessing patient needs, obtaining informed consent during treatment, patient privacy, and professionalism. The Code of Ethics focuses on matters - ANSWER -ensuring the integrity of the profession and protecting patients in vulnerable situations. It provides that a registrant must always act in the best interests of the patient, and deals with matters such as termination of the therapeutic relationship, sexual misconduct, and conflicts of interest. All active registrants must have liability insurance of at least - ANSWER -$2,000,000 per claim or occurrence 3 | P a g e Created by ©EmilyCharlene 2025. All rights reserved. The Criminal Records Review Act requires - ANSWER -all professionals regulated by the Health Professions Act to have a criminal record check done and to provide a verification to their college at the time they first register The Criminal Records Review Act requires a criminal record check to be done - ANSWER -every five (5) years after being registered. In the case of sexual misconduct, if the registrant learns about the misconduct from a patient of the other health care practitioner, the registrant must - ANSWER -obtain the consent of that patient or their guardian before making the report. If a registrant is also trained to provide services that fall outside of the massage therapy scope of practice, the registrant must be careful to - ANSWER -separate those services from their massage therapy services. -Under the College bylaws, services that do not fall under massage therapy - ANSWER -cannot be advertised or described as part of the registrant's massage therapy practice. -The registrant must use separate letterhead, business cards, and statements of account for those services, and must bill the patient separately for those services. *Massage Therapists Regulation* is a - ANSWER -specific list of services that an RMT is not permitted to perform Massage Therapists Regulation states that - ANSWER -"No registrant may: 1. prescribe or administer drugs or anaesthetics 2. treat a recent fracture of a bone 3. apply any form of medical electricity 4 | P a g e Created by ©EmilyCharlene 2025. All rights reserved. 4. move a joint of the spine beyond the limits the body can voluntarily achieve using a high velocity, low amplitude thrust." The MT "scope of practice" is set out in the - ANSWER -Massage Therapists Regulation Massage Therapists Regulation states: "massage therapy" means the health profession in which a person provides, for the purposes of developing, maintaining, rehabilitating or augmenting physical function, or relieving pain or promoting health, the services of: - ANSWER -assessment of soft tissue and joints of the body, and treatment and prevention of physical dysfunction, injury, pain and disorders of soft tissue and joints of the body by manipulation, mobilization and other manual methods. If the College determines that a registrant needs to be disciplined: - ANSWER -1. reprimand the registrant; 2. impose limits or conditions on the registrant's massage therapy practice;