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Volume 45, No. 21

B.C. Reg. 296/2002

The British Columbia Gazette,

Part II

November 19, 2002

B.C. Reg. 296/2002, deposited November 8, 2002, pursuant to the HEALTH PROFESSIONS ACT [section 12]. Order in Council 965/2002, approved and ordered November 7, 2002.

On the recommendation of the undersigned, the Lieutenant Governor, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council, orders that the attached Dietitians Regulation is made. — S. HAWKINS, Minister of Health Planning; G. CAMPBELL, Presiding Member of the Executive Council.

DIETITIANS REGULATION

Contents

Definitions

Designation

Reserved titles

Scope of practice

Reserved acts

Limitations on practice

Patient relations program

Definitions

1 In this regulation:

"Act" means the Health Professions

Act;

"compound" means to mix ingredients for

parenteral or enteral nutrition;

"dietetics" means the assessment of

nutritional needs, design, implementation and evaluation of nutritional care

plans and therapeutic diets, the science of food and human nutrition, and

dissemination of information about food and human nutrition to attain, maintain

and promote the health of individuals, groups and the community;

"design" means the selection of

appropriate ingredients for parenteral or enteral nutrition;

"dispense" means to fill a prescription

for parenteral or enteral nutrition;

"enteral" means administration of a

nutritional substance to a patient by means of a feeding tube into the

gastrointestinal tract;

"medical practitioner" means a person

authorized to practise medicine under the Medical Practitioners Act ;

"parenteral" means administration of a

nutritional substance to a patient directly into the blood stream.

Designation

(1) Dietetics is designated as a health

profession.

(2) The College of Dietitians of British Columbia is the

name of the college established under

section 15 (1) of the Health

Professions Act for dietetics.

Reserved titles

3 On and after the date 12 months after this

regulation comes into force, a person who is not a registrant must not use the

title "dietitian".

Scope of practice

4 A registrant May practise dietetics.

Reserved acts

5 Subject to

section 14 of the Act, no person

other than a registrant who meets the additional qualifications set out in the

bylaws of the College may

(

a) design, compound or dispense therapeutic diets if

nutrition is administered through enteral means,

(

b) design therapeutic diets if nutrition is

administered through parenteral means, or

(

c) administer a substance to a person by instillation

through enteral or parenteral means.

Limitations on practice

(1) No registrant May insert a feeding tube.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a registrant who

(

a) is acting under delegated authority of a medical

practitioner, and

(

b) is acting in accordance with standards developed for

the purposes of paragraph (

a) by the board and approved by the board and the

College of Physicians and Surgeons of British Columbia.

Patient relations program

7 The College is designated for the purposes of

section 16 (2) (

f) of the Act.

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