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Self-Selected Activity: Are You Ready to Tell your Practice Improvement Story?
3 September 2020
The practice permit renewal deadline is September 15, here are tips for the Self-Selected Activity and completion of your Practice Improvement Record.
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College Selected Activity: IPC Practices during the COVID-19 Pandemic
3 September 2020
COVID-19 continues to transmit within Alberta communities. As such, it is imperative that physiotherapists continue to responsibly manage COVID-19 disease prevention measures.
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Self-Selected Activity: Wrapping Up
7 August 2020
Renewal is just around the corner, here are some tips for the Self-Selected Activity and completion of your Practice Improvement Record.
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Public Member Representation
6 August 2020
On July 6th, the Government announced amendments to the Health Professions Act, requiring all regulated health colleges to increase public member representation on their Councils, Hearing Tribunals and Complaint Review Committees to 50 per cent of the total members, up from 25%.
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Occupational Health and Safety Inspections
30 June 2020
The College of Physiotherapists of Alberta has been informed that Alberta Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) officers are going to begin actively inspecting physiotherapy worksites as part of ongoing Government of Alberta pandemic management activities.
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Self-Selected Activity: Observations about the Practice Improvement Record Review
30 June 2020
Do you ever wonder what happens to your Practice Improvement Record after you submit it at renewal? After you hit “submit,” in accordance with the DO.LEARN.GROW. program rules, staff work on a review of regulated members’ Practice Improvement Records.
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Continuing Competence: Managing the Self-Selected Activity During COVID-19
5 June 2020
Since March, COVID-19 has preoccupied our lives and physiotherapists have dealt with challenges and dramatic changes. This crisis has touched both professional practice and personal lives, leaving physiotherapists wondering how to best to manage their future professional lives. The College of Physiotherapists of Alberta has received some questions on how to best manage the Self-Selected Activity requirements. Some members have indicated their workload is reduced and want to complete the write up of their Practice Improvement Record now.
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The College of Physiotherapists of Alberta is Closed to Visitors
17 March 2020
The College of Physiotherapists of Alberta is closed to visitors until further notice. As the impact of COVID-19 continues to rise, Alberta Health recommends measures that can help flatten the curve and slow the transmission of the virus. The College of Physiotherapists of Alberta has decided to close its door to visitors and will be practicing "social distancing."
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Continuing Competence: Adaptive or Routine Expertise
9 March 2020
Three months into 2020, you might be thinking about the Self-Selected Activity you will use for renewal this September. As you seek out knowledge for practice improvement, ask yourself “what type of expertise am I developing, routine or adaptive?”
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Continuing Competence: Unskilled and Unaware of it
11 February 2020
If there are gaps in a specific domain, training can help close the perceived and actual reality gap; illustrating the old adage “the more I know the more I realize I know nothing.” This study does acknowledge they are not implying that people are always unaware of their incompetence.
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