Week 8 - Ontario Regulated Health Professions Legislative Framework Flashcards
What are the different laws affecting nursing in Ontario?
RHPA NA Health professions procedural code Expanded nursing services for patients act Public hospitals act Long-term care homes act
The umbrella law that regulates how all regulated health professions are governed in Ontario
RHPA
What are the key features of the RHPA?
Outlines scope of practice (i.e. statement) and controlled acts authorized to regulated professions.
Sets out rules of each of the professional colleges (within health professions procedural code)
Things that could cause harm to the client if not performed by a regulated provider.
Controlled acts
What is the document that regulates the CNO?
RHPA
Sets out the practical rules of the regulatory colleges.
Health professions procedural code
Sets out, in detail, how nursing will self-regulate, according to the rules and regulations of the RHPA.
Nursing Act
Regulations of the nursing act deal with what aspects of nursing?
Registration Entry to practice requirements Title protection Controlled acts QA Professional misconduct
RETCQP
What two documents must one understand to understand the governance of nursing in Ontario?
NA + RHPA
Allows RNs who hold extended certificates of registration to provide PHC services.
Expanded nursing services for patients act
Expanded the scope of advanced practice nurses (NPs) by allowing them to perform certain controlled acts.
Expanded nursing services for patients act
What are some examples of extended practice for NPs?
Communicating a Dx to patients
Prescribing certain drugs
Ordering the application of certain forms of energy
Regulates hospital governance and operations in Ontario.
The Public Hospitals Act
Public hospitals also refer to these centers.
Mental health hospitals rehab hospitals addiction centers cancer centers etc.
Regulates governance and operation of long-term care homes
Long-term care homes act (2007)
What are some examples of legislative requirements from the long-term care homes act?
24 hour nursing care - one RN must be present at all times
Director of nursing care is not considered to be an RN on duty
What is self-regulation?
Someone within the profession is regulating the care of the profession
What is the main focus of the CNO?
Protect the public
Self-regulation allows the profession to do what?
Govern members Set standards for entry establish educational requirements deal with complaints discipline members
Above all else, what is the most important mandate of a self-regulated profession?
Protection of the public
What are the different categories of nurses in Canada?
Ontario
- RPN, RN, NP
Rest of Canada
- LPN, RN, RPN (registered psych nurse - BC, AB, SK, MB), NP
What is the main difference between RNs and RPNs?
RPNs can only care for patients that are less complex and have less of a chance of having negative outcomes
RNs take less predictable patients with a higher chance of getting complications
Match the description to the nursing organization/body.
A - Professional advocacy
B - Establishing requirements for entry to practice
C - Protects nursing jobs and makes things better for nurses
D - Provides nursing specialization certifications
A - RNAO/CNA
B - CNO
C - ONA
D - CNA
Match the description to the nursing organization/body.
A - Helps sit on workplace safety and insurance claims
B - Political advocacy
C - Engaging members in research
D - Enforces standards of practice and conduct
A - ONA
B - RNAO
C - CNA
D - CNO
Match the description to the nursing organization/body.
A - Helps nurses if they end up being called to the CNO for disciplinary hearings, or with criminal charges
B - Provision of professional malpractice insurance
C - National professional association
D - Administers its quality assurance program for Ontario nurses
A - ONA
B - RNAO
C - CNA
D - CNO
Match the description to the nursing organization/body.
A - Articulating and promoting practice standards
B - Lobby governments in nurses’ professional interests
C - Offers insurance plans
D - Membership included with annual registration for most of Canada except Ontario and Quebec
A - CNO
B - RNAO
C - ONA
D - CNA
Application and acceptance as a member of the college/association
Registration
Granting of license to practice
Licensing
Publicly recognized as a member of the profession.
Registration
What are the different licensing classes for nurses in Ontario?
General Temporary Extended Special Emergency
True or False?
You need a license to be registered with the CNO.
False - there is a non-practicing class