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Volume 51, No. 20

B.C. Reg. 285/2008

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

October 21, 2008

B.C. Reg. 285/2008 , deposited October 15, 2008, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [Section 12 (2)]. Ministerial Order M245/2008, dated October 10, 2008.

I, George Abbott, Minister of Health Services, order that effective October 17, 2008, the attached Nurses (Registered Psychiatric) Regulation is made.

— G. ABBOTT, Minister of Health Services.

NURSES (REGISTERED PSYCHIATRIC) REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

College name

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Patient relations program

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions Act ;

"psychiatric nursing" means practice as a registrant of the college.

College name

2 The name "College of Registered Psychiatric Nurses of British Columbia" is the name of the college established under

section 15 (1) of the Act for psychiatric nursing.

Reserved titles

(1) The titles "registered psychiatric nurse" and "licensed graduate psychiatric nurse" are reserved for exclusive use by registrants.

(2) This

section does not prevent a person from using the title "nurse" in a manner authorized by another regulation under

section 12 of the Act.

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.

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