What is the age of consent in Quebec? - ANS 14
What is the age of consent in every province other than quebec? - ANS There is none
Have to work family into the consent if no proper communication channels
How do you handle consent for someone without proper communication cha...
What is the age of consent in every province other than quebec? - ANS There is none
Have to work family into the consent if no proper communication channels
How do you handle consent for someone without proper communication channels? - ANS
Ask their consent AND involve family, subsequent caregivers, or secondary decision holders
Who is considered under a child? What age? - ANS Under 16
Who is considered a young person? What age? - ANS 16-18
What is the age of majority? Age? - ANS When you're considered an adult
18+
Under what circumstances is it okay to treat someone (legally) who refuses consent? - ANS
Secondary overrides because benefit to patient outweighs risk of not receiving treatment
What do we need to keep confidential about a patient? How? - ANS Their identity out in
public (can't legally engage them first)
Opinions you form about them
Documentation
Entire staff follows same protocols
Not sharing info with family or friends
Protect documents against loss or theft
Make pre-arrangements for in case of your death with documents
PHIPA
Can you show a patient their records if they request it? - ANS Yes
How long do you have to keep a patients records for?
,Even if? - ANS 10 years post last treatment
or
10 years post their 18th birthday
EVEN if finished practicing
EVEN if they die
EVEN if YOU die
When is it okay to disclose a patient's information?
4 circumstances - ANS 1) Compelled by court order or legal authority
2) Necessary in the public's interest (possibility of public infraction or crime i.e. communicable
disease to public health)
3) Necessary in patients health to share with healthcare provider or guardian (risk of harm if you
do not)
4) Patient risks harm to selves or others (self harm, abuse etc.)
A patient comes in under an influence and wants to drive, can you disclose their information to
public health? - ANS Yes
A patient has an acute injury preventing them from giving consent, can you disclose their
information to get them help to public health or a secondary? - ANS Yes
A patient comes in and asks about their parent's treatment progress, can you disclose that
information to them since they are an immediate family member? - ANS No
A patient dies, when is it appropriate (and legal) to dispose safely of their documentation since it
is no longer active or in use within the office? - ANS 10 years post date of death
or
10 years after what would have been their 18th birthday
whichever one comes last
You die, what happens to your patient's documentation - ANS You MUST have a way to
keep it safe, secure, and accessible for legal purposes until 10 years after their last visit, or 10
years after their 18th birthday. There are organizations that can aid in this for a fee, or you can
organize it with another 3rd party (confirm this second one, there may be minor details)
Patient education includes what? How? - ANS Increasing physical awareness of bodies
Teaching bodies to self heal and self regulate
Teaching bodies how to use these inherent healing mechanisms
,Teach anatomy and physiology
Advising on a behaviour or activity
Recommending other care avenues (stretching)
When a patient says "oh my back goes out every time I do Cross-fit" and you say "sometimes
the forces you put though your body are too much for it to handle, and your body may need time
to heal. Giving time for your body to handle that kind of force by avoiding that kind of stimulus
may be a good idea." is an example of what form of patient education? - ANS Increasing
physical body awareness by advising on behaviours and activities
What are the benefits of keeping a patient informed? - ANS Reduce power differential
Reveals to them choices they didn't know they had
Allows patient to take a more active role in their own healthcare (proactive)
Deeper knowledge of your work (be able to better explain it to others and refer pts to you)
What are the 3 learning styles? - ANS Kinesthetic
Auditory
Visual
How can you create kinaesthetic learning? What are the benefits? - ANS Tell story that
makes visceral or emotional connection
Role play
Perform action/exercise
Visceral/emotional response. Remember things easier.
What is auditory learning? - ANS Speaking only
What is visual learning? - ANS Demonstration posters
Written explanations
Diagrams
Links to literature
Links to visual technological aids (anatomy app)
Youtube videos
(Visible aids and models)
What is the theory of multiple intelligences? - ANS People possess a variety of different
intellectual capacities and they operate relatively independent of one another
Howard Gardener book of multiple intelligences states what? - ANS 10 intelligences:
- visual linguistic
- logical mathematical
, - visual spatial
- bodily or kinaesthetic
- musical or rhythmical
- intrapersonal
- interpersonal
- naturalist
- existential
- pedagogical
How to communicate with impaired patients?
(visual, hearing, physical, mental etc.) - ANS Visual - auditory or kinaesthetic, or interpreter
Hearing - visual communications, or interpreter
Physical - accessibility and available space, proper timing
Mental - none or all of the above aids
When in doubt, reach out and ask if there's another practitioner with service available
7 professional boundaries - ANS
What could an inappropriate behaviour or communication be indicative of? - ANS
Ineffective coping behaviours from feelings of anxiety, shame, or guilt
What are the 9 causes of inappropriate coping behaviours?
(focus on top 3)
*double check how these are delivered in class notes, 3 behaviours and then an additional sub
heading??* - ANS 1) Repression - pt puts painful thoughts or feelings out of their mind.
2) Denial - usually unconscious. Denies existence of feelings, needs, or thoughts, or even the
facts around the event or what's going on with them.
3) Projection - of their feelings (emotionally, physically, mentally) onto other individuals or
objects.
4) Compensation - Over emphasizes their behaviours in other areas not relevant to their
condition.
5) Displacement - patient refuses to accept ownership of certain thought, needs, or desires.
6) Disassociation - disconnects significance of certain emotions or events.
7) Identification - a patient mimics the behaviour of someone else versus behaving naturally
(conceal their behaviour)
8) Rationalization - patient justifies inappropriate behaviour with false reasoning
9) Regression - unconsciously returns to immature behaviours or thoughts
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