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Question and Answer Archive

2023

• Occupational therapy billing practices (March 2023)

2022

• The purpose of the College's public register (November 2022)
• Client wants to make a complaint to the College (October 2022)
• School-based occupational therapy services (August 2022)
• Mask mandate lifting in schools (March 2022)
• Virtual Services (March 2022)
• Updating your information (March 2022)
• Termination of employment (February 2022)

2021

• Co-signing occupational therapist assistants' documentation (November 2021)
• Suspected abuse/neglect of an adult client with a developmental disability (November 2021)
• Co-signing provisional occupational therapists' documentation (October 2021)
• Frequency of documentation in the clinical record (September 2021)
• Masking requirements when fully vaccinated (August 2021)
• Charging fees for the release of client records (August 2021)
• Am I practising? (July 2021)
• Disclosing personal health information (July 2021)
• Appointment book for clinical sessions (June 2021)
• Documentation of deceased clients (May 2021)
• Sharing vaccination information (April 2021)
• Documenting non-client sessions (March 2021)
• Occupational therapists and job titles (February 2021)
• Accountability online and in the media (January 2021)
• Verbal consent for email (January 2021)

2020

• Self-reporting (December 2020)
• Clients declining to wear a mask (November 2020)
• Precepting in a pandemic (October 2020)
• Virtual supervision of a provisional occupational therapist (September 2020)
• Emailing client information (September 2020)
• Occupational therapists and coaching (June 2020)
• Type of practice - clinical or non-clinical (January 2020)

2019

• Professional liability insurance for retiring OTs (October 2019)
• OTs completing and signing treatment plans for the medical use of cannabis (Updated)
• Referral to get assessed or treated by an OT (May 2019)
• OTs providing documentation for service animals (April 2019)
• Changing or commenting on reports after resigning as an OT (February 2019)
• Retaining client records (January 2019)

2018

• Obtaining consent from divorced or separated parents (Updated 2020)
• Client under the influence of cannabis (November 2018)
• Documentation in a group setting (November 2018)
• Consent for assessments in schools (September 2018)
• Standard fees for OTs (July 2018)
• Using modalities in occupational therapy practice (May 2018)
• Reporting suspected elder abuse (April 2018)
• Treating a friend's child (March 2018)
• Canada Revenue Agency audits (February 2018)
• Use of Title (January 2018)