Learning Outcomes for Test #1 Flashcards
(51 cards)
When can you perform a controlled act?
The controlled act is authorized to your profession AND/OR the act is delegated to you by an authorized health professional.
What is an MLT’s scope of practice?
To take blood samples from veins or by skin pricking, and the performance of laboratory investigations on the human body or on specimens taken from the human body and the evaluation of the technical sufficiency of the investigations and their results.
Harm Clause:
No person, other than a member treating or advising within the scope of practice of his/her profession, shall treat or advise a person with respect to his/her health circumstances in which it is reasonably foreseeable that serious physical harm may result from the treatment or advice or from an omission from them.
Restricted Titles
No person other than a member shall use the title MEDICAL LABORATORY TECHNOLOGIST, a variation or abbreviation or an equivalent in another language.
Role of Professional Associations
Advocate on behalf of their members and provide member services. Membership is voluntary and may include access to liability insurance, continuing education and/or certification programs.
CSMLS
Canadian Society for Medical Laboratory Science
(Federal, not mandatory to join but you must be certified by them, they protect you)
MLPAO
Medical Laboratory Professionals Association of Ontario (Provincial, not mandatory to join-they protect you)
CMLTO
College of Medical Laboratory Technologists of Ontario (Provincial, mandatory to join, regulating body-they protect the patients)
Contents of a Professional Portfolio
- self assessment of strengths and weaknesses
-record of professional development activities and learning plan for following year (minimum 30hrs/year)
Three examples of Professional Misconduct
-failure to cooperate with Quality Assurance Committee
-SA a patient
-committing an act of professional misconduct
-incompetence
What is mandatory to report to CMLTO?
-any knowledge obtained during practice that a patient is being SA’d by a health professional
-conviction of an offence
-change of home address or employment within 30 days of the change
Health Canada works with provinces on:
-creating policies
-financing projects
-healthcare for Inuit and First Nations communities
Role of Provincial Governments in Health Care
Provinces are responsible for their own healthcare, to receive funding they must comply with the regulations set by Canada Health Act, which obliges provinces to cover hospital care and medically necessary treatment.
Three General Categories of Health Care
-Primary
-Secondary
-Tertiary
Examples of Primary Care:
-family doctors
-nurse practitioners
-clinics
-emergency care
Examples of Secondary Care:
require physician referral
-consultation with a specialist
-admission to a general hospital or highly specialized care facility
Examples of Tertiary Care
require a referral
-cancer or cardiology center
-discharged to specialist that discharges to family doctor
What are RHAs?
The most common way of delivering primary, secondary, and tertiary care is under RHAs(Regional Health Authorities)
What is Constitutional Law?
Addresses the relationship between people and their government and establishes, allocates, and limits public power.
What is Statutory Law?
Laws passed in parliament; immigration, taxation, divorce, education, family, healthcare.
What is Regulatory Law?
-Possesses the legally binding feature of an act, but is made by delegated persons/organizations rather than parliament or provincial legislatures.
-Affects hospital boards, health care institutions, and bodies governing healthcare providers.
What is Case Law and Civil Law?
-Results form decisions of judges
-Based on precedents
-May serve to define obligations and legal rights or further explain elements
What is Private Law?
-Relationships between people
-contract, property, inheritance, family, tort, corporate
Tort Law
A person or their property is wronged or harmed by another person, either intentionally or unintentionally. Unintentional can be mistaken for negligence.
