Nursing 4320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Outline Of Health Sciences, Law Of Obligations, Quality Assurance
30 Oct 2018
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Laws affecting nursing in ontario: the regulated health professions act, the health professions procedural code, the nursing act, the expanded nursing services for patients act, the public hospitals act, the long term care homes act. Professions procedural code: regulated health professionals- rt, physicians, pt, governed by own profession and rhpa. Informed by the regulated health professions act (rhpa: sets out in detail how nursing will self-regulate, according to the rules and regulations in the rhpa. The public hospitals act (1990: regulates hospital governance and operations in ontario, ecfa in relation to patient safety an critical incident report- when that legislation was put in place they put an amendment to the public hospitals. Act: what you can and can"t do in a hospital, governs a number of different areas including, physician appointments and hospital privileges, handling of death in hospital, funding, patient admissions, discharge and records. Self-regulation: a privilege granted to a profession by the provincial or territorial government (or state)
