STIC - Health Care:
Licensing (Module 3)
Understanding the  Regulated Health Professions Act,
1991 (Topic
1)
Content
Facilitator should be familiar with the Regulated Health
Professions Act, 1991, particularly sections 27-29 (Handout 4). The full
text of the Act is available on the Internet. Handout 1 consists of three
pages of reading. If necessary, this reading could be assigned as homework
the day before delivery of the lesson.
Delivery
Make as many copies as necessary of the following handouts  :
- Handout 1 Reading : Careers in Health
Care (three pages)
- Handout 2 Discussion Questions, Comprehension
Check and Vocabulary Exercises (two pages)
- Handout 3 Legal Terminology Matching Activity
- Handout 4 Regulated Health Professions
Act, 1991, Sections 27-29 (two pages)
- Handout 5 Comprehension Check and Matching
Activity (two pages)
Materials needed: access to a board.
Methodology
Introduction
(15 minutes)
Explain to participants that there
are legal aspects to licensing. In Ontario, health care professions
are governed by the Regulated Health Professions Act, 1991 (RHPA).
The RHPA is an "umbrella" act; the scope of practice of
the different health occupations is governed by the individual act
that governs each occupation. Each medical profession has a regulatory
body or "college" that exists to set and maintain standards for the
profession. Inform participants that this lesson will focus on Section
27-29 of the RHPA, which deals with "controlled acts".
Explain to the participants that they will encounter the term "controlled
acts" in the fact sheets for their professions in the next lesson.
Draw participants' attention to other aspects of the RHPA. For example,
Section 15 deals with registration and appeal procedures; Section
36 deals with confidentiality (concerning communication between a
patient and a health care professional and also inter-college communication
about a member.).
Inform participants that this lesson also gives them an opportunity
to learn about allied health professions. Point out that health care
professionals need to be knowledgeable about each others' professions
because of the importance of working as a team in delivering health
care services.
Pre-Tasks
1. (10 minutes)
Ask participants from different
health care professions to identify the other health care professionals
that they regularly work with. Ask them how these other health
care professionals complement or support their work.
2. (15 minutes)
Ask participants from different
health care professions to identify the medical procedures that
they routinely perform. Are these procedures best performed by members
of their professions? Why? Why not?
3. (10 minutes) (optional)
Ask participants to identify procedures
that can only be performed by members of a particular health care
profession. Are these restrictions necessary? Why? Why not?
4. (30 minutes)
Distribute Handout 1 (Reading
: Careers in Health). Give participants sufficient time to read
the handout. Then conduct a class discussion using the discussion
questions in Handout 2.
5. (15 minutes)
Instruct participants to reread
the relevant paragraphs of the text to answer the comprehension
and vocabulary questions in Handout 2. Discuss answers as a class.
6. (15 minutes)
Explain to participants that the
terms in Handout 3 (Legal Terminology Matching Activity) are commonly
used in legal documents such as the RHPA. It is useful to make
sure they are understood before reading legal documents. Instruct
participants to do the matching exercise as preparation for reading
Handout 4 (Regulated Health Professions Act, Sections 27-29). Take
up with class.
Tasks
1. (50 minutes)
Distribute Handout 4 (RHPA, Sections
27-29). Instruct participants to read this document and then complete
the comprehension check (exercise 1) in Handout 5.
2. (20 minutes)
Form pairs of participants. Instruct
participants to re-read Section 27 on controlled acts and ask them
to complete the matching activity (exercise 2) in Handout 5. They
need to identify the health care professions that are permitted
to perform the controlled acts described.
3. (20 minutes)
Take up Handout 5. Have pairs of
participants volunteer their answers to the matching activity in
exercise 2 above. Elicit reasons for answers.
Post-Tasks
1. (30 minutes)
different health care profession.
Participants should take turns describing to each other the controlled
acts that they are allowed to perform as set out in the RHPA. Ask
participants to note overlaps in terms of the controlled acts they
are permitted to perform as members of their professions and also
controlled acts that are limited to their professions.
2. (15 minutes) (optional)
Discuss as a class. Have pairs of
participants report on what is common and what is different between
their professions in terms of controlled acts.
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