Health Professions Act -- REGISTERED PSYCHIATRIC NURSES REGULATION

B.C. Reg. 115/99
O.C. 463/99

Deposited April 16, 1999

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Health Professions Act

REGISTERED PSYCHIATRIC NURSES REGULATION

*Contents*
	1	Definition
	2	Designation
	3	Reserved title
	4	Scope of practice
	5	Patient relations program

Definition

1 In this regulation:

"psychiatric nursing" means practice as a registrant of the College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of British Columbia.

Designation

2 (1) Psychiatric nursing is designated as a health profession.

(2) The "College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of British Columbia" is the name of the college established under section 15 (1) of the Act to regulate psychiatric nursing.

Reserved title

3 No person other than a registrant may use the title "registered psychiatric nurse" or "licensed graduate psychiatric nurse".

Scope of practice

4 A registrant may practise psychiatric nursing.

Patient relations program

5 The College is designated for the purposes of section 16 (2) (f) of the Act.

[Provisions of the Health Professions Act, R.S.B.C. 1996, c. 183, relevant to the enactment of this regulation: section 12 (2) (h)]