week 5

Question 1

What is professional regulation?

Answer 1

establishes and enforces the rules to govern behaviour for a professional

Question 2

What is the regulated health profession’s act? Who does it apply to and where?

Answer 2

provides scope of practice and controlled acts. It regulates professions in the public interest to ensure we are accountable for our practice.

APPLIES TO ALL HEALTH PROFESSIONS IN ONTARIO

Question 3

What is the Nursing Act?

Answer 3

delegated power and control of regulation to CNO for nursing, defines the scope of practise for the nursing profession, registration (classes of registration, entry to practise requirements, title protection), quality assurance and professional misconduct

Question 4

What is self regulation?

Answer 4

the right to regulate their own members rather than the gov’t

Question 5

When is self regulation granted?

Answer 5

When a profession shows they can put the interest of the public ahead of their own interest

Question 6

Who does the CNO protect?CNA?

Answer 6

1) The Public

2) The CNA acts as a professional voice of Canadian nursing

Question 7

What is the self regulatory body for nurses?

Answer 7

CNO

Question 8

What does self regulation recognize?

Answer 8

A profession is in the best position to determine standards for education

Question 9

What do regulatory body ensure?

Answer 9

• controls activites of all its professionals
• ensures that members:
  a) properly educated, maintain competence, have required skill to practice
  b) are credentialed as professional and registered with body

Question 10

What is the first priority for regulatory bodies?

Answer 10

First priority is ALWAYS with the public interest BEFORE individual or professional interest

Question 11

The CNO is a governing body for who?

Answer 11

1) RN’s
2) RPN’s
3) NP’s

Question 12

How does the CNO fulfill it’s role?

Answer 12

1) establishing requirements for entry to practice
2) articulating and promoting practice standards
3) administering its quality assurance program
4) enforcing standards of practice and conduct

Question 13

How does the CNO support the regulation of nursing in the public interest?

Answer 13

1) participating in the legislative process

2) sharing statistical information about Ontario’s nurses

Question 14

What does the RNAO do?

Answer 14

professional association, assists in political action, creates best practice guidelines, learning/career advancement, legal assistance program and much more)

Question 15

What are the requirements for individual self-regulation?

Answer 15

self-regulation includes understanding your own

- capacities, weaknesses and learning needs

Question 16

When can you call yourself a Nurse?

Answer 16

When you are registered with the college and hold a valid certification

AKA only member of the CNO

Question 17

When can you refuse care?

Answer 17

• unreasonable burden
• personal danger
• individual competence (don’t know how to do skill)
• conscientious objective (moral or religious belief ex: abortion)
• duty to report

Question 18

How does the regulatory body protect the public?

KNOW THIS

Answer 18

1) practice standard and guidelines

2) competencies

Question 19

What is the purpose of the CNO and who does the CNO address itself to?

Answer 19

Purpose of CNO is to protect the public by promoting safe nursing practice

CNO applies to all nurses(RPN’s, RN’s and NP’s)

Question 20

What are the 7 CNO requisite skills and abilities?

Answer 20

1) cognitive
2) communication
3) interpersonal
4) behavioural
5) psycho-motor
6) sensory
7) environmental

Question 21

Who represents Nursing Students?

Answer 21

RNAO

Question 22

Who develops the best guideline practices?

Answer 22

RNAO

Question 23

Which act provides title protection?

Answer 23

Nursing act

Question 24

what are the registration categories?

Answer 24

1) registered nurses

2) registered practical nurses

Question 25

what are the 3 classes for nurses in terms of license?

Answer 25

1) general class
2) extended class (NP)
3) temporary class

Question 26

What are the requirements for entry to practice in Ontario?

Answer 26

1) meet education requirement
2) provide evidence of nursing practice
3) complete jurisprudence exam
4) prove proficiency in English or French
5) provide proof of citizenship, PR card or authorized under the immigration and refugee protection act

Question 27

What does the controlled acts outline? How many of them are nurses authorized to complete?

Answer 27

What acts nurses can perform

nurses authorized to complete 5 out of the 14 acts

Question 28

Name the 4 acts nurses can perform?

Answer 28

1) perform a prescribed procedure below the dermis or mucous membrane
Ex: Inserting IV, wound care

2) administer a substance by injection or inhalation

3) putting an instrument, hand or finger
a) beyond the external ear canal
b) beyond the point in the nasal passages where they normally narrow
c) beyond the larynx
d) beyond the opening of the urethra
e) beyond the labia majora
f) beyond the anal verge or
g) into an artificial opening

4) dispensing a drug

Question 29

List the CNO professional standards

Answer 29

1) accountability
2) continuing competence
3) ethics
4) knowledge
5) knowledge application
6) leadership
7) relationships