HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy
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More than 200 occupations and professions among the more than 16 million workers in the health care field. System continues to change, making use of new technology, expanding in some sectors and contracting in others, additional occupations and professions will appear. Personnel of those new occupations and professions will be required to possess more specialized knowledge and more sophisticated skills. Health care occupations have been regulated by one of three procedures: state licensure. The state law defines the scope of practice to be regulated and the education and testing requirements that must be met to engage in that practice. The most restrictive of the three types of regulation is intended to restrict entry or practice in certain occupations and to prevent the use of professional titles by those without predetermined qualifications. It is illegal for individuals to perform procedures defined in the statutes as medicine or dentistry or to call themselves physicians or dentists without the appropriate license.
