Week 7: Practice standards 2 Flashcards
Practice standard 7: Infection control
Health care personnel implement measures to prevent the spread, transmission and acquisition of infectious agents or pathogens btwn patients/clients, from healthcare workers to patients/clients and from patients/clients to workers in health care setting
Minimum measures of infection control
- proper hand hygiene
- appropriate work practices
- use of personal protective equipment (PPE) where required
Resources for infection control
- Infection prevention and control Canada (IPAC Canada)
- Public Health Agency of Canada
- Ontario ministry of health and long-term care (MOHLTC)
- Public health Ontario
What is a boundary?
Define and separate your role as a health care provider from other roles in your life such as a family member, friends, neighbour or business partner
Set a clear distinction btwn your personal relationships and your professional relationships
What are professional boundaries dictated by?
- federal and provincial legislation
- college standards
- your employer’s policies
- yourself
Components of the therapeutic client relationship
- respect
- trust
- professional intimacy
- inherent power imbalance
How can health care providers establish and manage a safe connection with their patients/clients?
- Ensure boundaries are based on needs of patient
- Know and adhere to the standards of practice
- Make sure your personal views are secondary to your professional obligations
- Ensure the patient is the focal point of the therapeutic relationship
Who’s responsibility is it to always maintain the boundaries and a safe connection?
The kinesiologists (or any health provider)
**regardless of who is pushing professional boundaries in therapeutic relationship
Social media use by kinesiologists
- communicate online with same level of professionalism, honesty, integrity and respect as face-to-face interactions
- maintain professional boundaries
- within scope of expertise of the kinesiologist (posts shouldn’t undermine public health guidance, or a patients health, treatment or safety)
- maintain patient privacy and confidentiality
Social media use by kinesiologists even in a private capacity
Could still be subject to regulatory action if there is a negative impact on the profession or public
Factors that a regulator will consider when doing a contextual analysis of a registrant’s social media activity
- connection btwn conduct and practice of the profession that demonstrated a negative impact on profession or public interest
- whether the individual identifies themselves as a healthcare provider
- an analysis of the substance of the message
- the extent of the publication and the size and nature of the audience
- whether the posts are a breach of College standards
What would an analysis of the social media message include?
- tone, content, purpose
- whether statements made or true/fair
- does it contribute to public discourse about an issue
- its impact on the reputation of the profession
- does it contain misinfo, offensive language, or does not contribute to public discourse
Professional boundaries and prevention of sexual abuse
Every kinesiologist has a personal responsibility for establishing and maintaining boundaries within the professional relationship
It is the kinesiologist who is responsible for any abuse within the professional relationship not the patient/client
Definition of a spouse
- a person who is the registrant’s spouse as defined in section 1 of the family law act (ie. a person to whom the member is married)
- a person who has lived with the registrant in a conjugal relationship outside of marriage continuously for a period of not less than three years
As an Rkin, can you treat your spouse?
Yes
