License Maintenance Flashcards
How many days should one notify the board in regards to their mailing address change unless specified for shorter time?
Within 30 days
What happens if one does not notify the board within 30 days in regards to address change?
Citation and administrative fine
What type of font needed on the name tag?
At least 18 point font
When can an optometrist not have a name tag on them?
In a practice/office or in psychiatric setting or setting that is not licensed by the state
Which departments needs to do a periodic inspection?
State Department of Social Services
State Department of Public Health
State Department of Health Care Services
What needs to be displayed or communicated to the patient?
- Writing at the initial office visit
- Prominent display in the office
- Name and license
- Highest level of academic degree
- Board certification
What type of font needs to be used for displaying health care practitioner information?
At least 24 point font
In what condition it does not apply to health care practitioner when displaying their information?
When contracting with a single medical group
Does a health care practitioner need to provide information on a website?
Yes
When does the board make an exception for CE requirements?
Reasons of health
Military services
Other good cause
For good cause causing problem with compliance of CE requirement and was granted exemption, does one need to make up for previous requirements as well as current ones?
Yes
What time frame is required for submitting proof of CE compliance?
Annually or biannually determined by the board
How many hours needed every 2 years for renewing certificate?
50 hours
Total of 35 hours of CE in which categories? (i.e. diagnoses, treatment, and management)
Glaucoma
Ocular infection
Ocular inflammation
Topical steroids
Systemic medication
Pain medication (include risk of addiction with schedule 2 drugs)
Pharmacology
Child abuse detection
Elderly abuse detection
How many hours of CE needed within 2 years before the license expiration date?
Up to how many hours can be patient care management/ethics in practice of optometry?
40 hours; 8 hours
Does business management courses accepted by the board?
No
Up to 20 hours of what courses can be counted towards the 50 needed CE requirements?
- Documented and accredited self study through correspondence or electronic medium
- Teaching CE courses
- Writing articles (1 page per 1 hour)
- Full day attendance of COA meeting (2 hour session = 1 hr; up to 4 hours)
- Completion of CPR course approved by the board (up to 4 hours)
- Approved category 1 AMA or 1A American Osteopathic Association that contributes to advancement of professional skills and knowledge in optometry
- Participation in creation of CA law and regulation exam ( 1 hr for each attending workshop; upto 8 hours)
1 credit hour is how many minutes?
50 minutes
CE recognized by the board if they are….
Officially sponsored/recognized by accredited school
Any national/state affiliate of AOA, AAO or Optometric Extension Program
Association of Regulatory Boards of Optometry/COPE
At least how many days prior to the date of the program needed to notify the Board?
45 days
What needed to be submitted for Continue Education Course Approval Application?
Reference, course schedule, topic outline of subject matter and curriculum vitae of all instructors/lecturers
CE credit will be determined if
- Whether it contribute to advancement of professional skills and knowledge in optometry
- Instructors/lecturers are recognized by the board
- Course open to all optometrist in the state
- Provider of the course agrees to maintain and record of course content and attendance at least 3 years from the presentation
Proof of CE attendance needs to have what minimal information?
- Name of sponsoring organization
- Name, signature, practice address, and license number of attending licensee
- Subject/title of the course
- Number of CE hours provided for attending the course
- Date of the course
- Location of the course
- Name and signature of the course instructors
Licensees can be exempt from CE renewal requirement if…
- Regular armed forces during any part of 2 years before the license expiration date
- Renewing an active license for the 1st time if one graduated from an accredited school less than 1 year from date of initial licensure
- Due to illness, incapacity or other unavoidable circumstances if granted by the board
What needs to be submitted for health reasons/good cause and unable to meet the CE requirements?
- CE Exemption Request
- All required supporting information
- 30 days prior to expiration of license
What events can happen when CE Exemption Request is submitted?
- Board grant the request
- Board deny request for exemption but may grant extension up to 1 year
- Denied request for exemption and no extension
How many hours of glaucoma related CE needed to renew license?
10 hours
Who are the mandated reporter?
- Teacher
- Instructional aid
- Teacher’s aid or assistant
- Employee of public school
- Administrative officer/supervisor of child welfare and attendance or certified pupil personnel employee
- Administrator of day camp
- Administrator/employee of youth center/recreation program/youth organization
- Administrator/board member/employee of organization whose duties require direct contact and supervision of children (i.e. foster family agency)
- Employee of county office of education/State Department of Education whose duties into contact with children
- Licensee/administrator/employee of licensed care/child day care
- Head Start program teacher
- Licensing worker/evaluator employed by licensing agency
- Public assistance worker
- Employee of child care institution (foster parents, group home, residential care facilities)
- Social worker/probation officer/parole officer
- Employee of school district police/security department
- Administrator/presenter/counselor in child abuse prevention program
- District attorney investigator/inspector/local child support caseworker
- Peace officer
- Firefighter; except volunteered
- Health care professionals
- Emergency medical technician/paramedic
- Psychological assistant
- Marriage and family therapist trainee
- Unlicensed associate marriage and family therapist
- State/county public health employee who treats minor for venereal disease (STD)
- Coroner
- Medical examiner/others who perform autopsies
- Commercial film and photographic print/image processor (except who develops)
- Child visitation monitor
- Animal control officer/humane society officer
- Clergy member
- Custodian of records
- Employee from police department/county sheriff’s/county probation department/county welfare department
- Employee/volunteer of court appointed special advocate program
- Custodial officer
- Person providing services to minor child
- Alcohol and drug counselor (except abuse)
- Clinical counselor trainee
- Associate professional clinical counselor
- Employee/administrator of public or private postsecondary educational institution
- Athletic coach/administrator/director
- Commercial computer technician/employer
Who can a mandated reporter report child abuse or neglect to?
Police department/Sheriff’s department (school district police, security department, county probation department)
When should one report to an agency for report of child abuse/neglect? and by what ways?
Immediately; telephone, fax/electronic transmission
When should one send out a follow up report after receiving the information concerning the events of child abuse/neglect?
36 hours
What is a reasonable suspicion of child abuse/neglect?
Objectively of suspicion based upon facts
Does minor pregnancy constitute as a basis for reasonable suspicion for sexual abuse?
No
What should a mandated reporter for child abuse/neglect do if unable to submit an initial report?
Make one time automated written report form by the Department of Justice and need to be available to respond to a telephone follow up
If the mandated reporter for child abuse/neglect unable to submit an initial report, do they need to submit a written follow up report?
No
If fails to report an incidence of child abuse/neglect what can happen?
- Find guilty of misdemeanor up to 6 months of confinement in county jail
- Fine up to 1000 dollars
- Or both imprisonment and fine
Who are mandated reporter for elderly abuse?
Any one who has assumed full or intermittent responsibility for the care or custody of an elder with or without compensation
What constitute of elderly abuse?
Abandonment, physical abuse, abduction, isolation, financial abuse or neglect
When should one report elderly abuse?
Immediately or as soon as possible
When should one submit a written report or internet report after the telephone report of an elderly abuse?
within 2 working days
When a serious bodily injury occurred, in relation to elderly abuse, when should one make a telephone report and when to submit a written report?
Immediately but no later than 2 hours; within 2 hours
When no serious bodily injury occurred, in relation to elderly abuse, when should one make a telephone report and when to submit a written report?
Within 24 hours; within 24 hours
If suspected of elderly abuse caused by someone with dementia and without serious bodily injury , when should one make a telephone report and also a written report?
Immediately; within 24 hours
Does state mental health hospital or state developmental center applied to WIC 15630 Elderly abuse?
No
Who to report to for suspected abuse in a long term health care facility?
State Department of Public Health
Who to report to for suspected abuse in residential care facility for elders?
State Department of Social Services
Who to report to for suspected abuse in adult day health care center?
State Department of Public Health
Who to report to for suspected elderly criminal activity?
Bureau of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse
Who to report to for suspected physical abuse and financial abuse?
Local district attorney’s office
Who to report to if abuse occurred in a state mental hospital or developmental center?
State Department of State Hospitals/State Department of Developmental Services/Local law enforcement
When should one report elderly abuse that was occurred in a state mental hospital/developmental center?
Immediately and no longer than 2 hours
Abuse in a state mental hospital/developmental center needed to be reported if….
- Death
- Sexual assault
- Assault with deadly weapon
- Assault with force likely causing great bodily injury
- Injury to the genitals
- Broken bone when break is undetermined cause
Who to report to if the abuse did not occur in a long term care facility, state mental hospital, or state developmental center
Adult protective services agency or local law enforcement agency
Mandated reporter who are physicians/surgeons/registered nurse/psychotherapist are not required to report if….
- Been told by an elder/dependent adult that he/she experienced behavior constituting elderly abuse
- Not aware of any independent evidence that corroborates the statement that the abuse has occurred
- The elder who has been diagnosed with mental illness/dementia
In a long term care facility, a mandated reporter are not required to report if…..
- Aware there is a proper plan of care
- Plan of care was properly provided/executed
- Physical, mental or medical injury occurred as a result of care provided
- Injury was not a result of abuse
What to include in a telephone/internet report if suspected of elderly abuse?
Name of the person making the report
Name and age of the elder
Present location of the elder
Names and addresses tf the family members or adults who are responsible for the care
Extent of the elder’s condition
Date of the incident
If failure to report elderly abuse what can happen?
- Charged with misdemeanor
- 6 months in county jail
- Fine of 1,000 dollars
- Both fine and imprisonment
If failure to report elderly abuse that ended up in death/great bodily injury what can happen?
- 1 year in county fail
- Fine of 5,000 dollars
- Both fine and imprisonment
