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Quality Assurance Program Components
The purpose of the Quality Assurance (QA) Program is to promote continuing competency among the profession. Therefore, the Program components are designed to:
- Provide tools to assist occupational therapists in measuring their level of competence related to Essential Competencies and identify practices which fall below standard;
- Encourage occupational therapists to make improvements where necessary and demonstrate evidence of remediation; and
- Support occupational therapists in maintaining acceptable standards through continuing education.
The QA Program consists of four main components: Continuing Competence; Program Communication and Education; Program Promotion; Program Research and Reporting.
Continuing Competency is most relevant to the occupational therapist. It consists of three separate phases:
- Competency Enhancement: All occupational therapists will participate in Competency Enhancement annually.
- Competency Review and Evaluation: Randomly selected occupational therapist participates in Competency Review and Evaluation. Everyone should expect to participate in these processes over time. In addition, occupational therapist may be referred from Complaints Committee, Executive Committee or the Registrar.
- Competency Improvement: Only those occupational therapists who need assistance to develop and demonstrate the Essential Competencies will participate in Competency Improvement.
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