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Interprofessional Collaboration

Interprofessional Collaboration. CRTO and CNO Working together to make a difference. Welcome and Introductions. Jennifer Harrison RRT Professional Practice Advisor College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario and Rosanne Jabbour, RN Advanced Practice Consultant,

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Interprofessional Collaboration

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  1. Interprofessional Collaboration CRTO and CNO Working together to make a difference

  2. Welcome and Introductions Jennifer Harrison RRT Professional Practice Advisor College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario and Rosanne Jabbour, RN Advanced Practice Consultant, College of Nurses of Ontario

  3. Agenda • Background IPC legislation • Bill 179 • RHPA • Profession Specific Acts • Our Story • What does it all mean for Nurses? • What does it all mean for RTs? • Moving Forward • Questions

  4. Bill 179 • To increase access to health care for Ontarians by enabling various health care professionals to practice to their full scope • To have more choice in who may provide care • Amended 26 health-related statutes • Regulated Health Professions Act (RHPA) • Profession Specific Acts

  5. RHPA 3.(1)The College has the following objects 4.1 To develop, in collaboration and consultation with other Colleges, standards of knowledge, skill and judgment relating to the performance of controlled acts common among health professions to enhance interprofessional collaboration, while respecting the unique character of individual health professions and their members.

  6. IPC at Regulatory Level • FHRCO • Guide to Medical Directives and Delegation • IPC Tools • Joint College Initiatives • CNO e.g., • CRTO e.g., CDHO, CMO

  7. RHPA 80.1  A quality assurance program prescribed under section 80 shall include, (a) continuing education or professional development designed to, (i) promote continuing competence and continuing quality improvement among the members, (i.1) promote interprofessional collaboration

  8. Profession Specific Acts • allows nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists, dietitians, midwives and medical radiation technologists to deliver more services that they are now qualified to provide; • changed the controlled acts for administering, prescribing, dispensing, selling and using drugs in practice for chiropodists and podiatrists, dental hygienists, dentists, midwives, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, physiotherapists and respiratory therapists; and • removed restrictions on X-rays that can be ordered by nurse practitioners and enabled physiotherapists to order X-rays for specific purposes.

  9. IPC- Key Messages • Its happening • Its good for patients/clients • We are doing it at the regulatory level • It can work at systems level too

  10. What does it mean for Nurses?

  11. What does it mean for RTs? What’s New… • Added 5th controlled act in the RTA “administer a prescribed substance by inhalation” • PHA changes RTs can accept orders from NPs in hospitals now • 80% Members work in hospitals • Models of IP practice, overlapping scopes and roles

  12. What does it mean for RTs? What remains the same… • Scope “The practice of respiratory therapy is the providing of oxygen therapy, cardio-respiratory equipment monitoring and the assessment and treatment of cardio-respiratory and associated disorders to maintain or restore ventilation” (RTA). • Who we can accept orders from i.e., NPs (RN(EC), physicians, dentists, midwives,

  13. Our Story • Response to changes to PHA summer 2011 • RTs and NPs

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