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From December 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024, the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC) made decisions on a total of 15 investigations: 8 on complaints investigations and 7 on Registrar\u2019s Investigations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the 8 complaints, the decisions broke down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the Registrar\u2019s Investigations, the decisions broke down as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
*One of the Take No Action cases above involved the same subject matter as one of the cases which was referred to discipline. This case was dismissed in lieu of referring the other matter to the Discipline Committee. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Every investigation will identify one or more concerns and the ICRC makes a decision on each one. These concerns are connected to occupational therapy competencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The following competencies were identified in the 14 matters decided by the ICRC \u2013 this does not include the one Take No Action mentioned above. It is important to note that competencies are identified for each concern in every matter, regardless Competencies are not counted for the one matter that was closed in lieu of referring the subsequent matter to discipline, which dealt with the same issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the more serious or repeated competency gaps that were found in some of these decisions were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also of note:<\/strong> In all but 2 complaints, gaps in both the A1 and B1 competencies were identified. This demonstrates that most complaints involved issues of communication. While competency B1 speaks directly to communication, A1 \u2013 establishing trusted Complaints data and analysis helps inform the development of College resources to support the delivery of safe, ethical services. Quality Assurance<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0activities,\u00a0practice resources<\/strong><\/a>, webinars, and articles such as\u00a0Communication is Key<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0are available online for all registrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Understanding the types of concerns the College receives and investigates is of interest to both registrants and the public. There are two main types of investigations: Investigations Data Overview: December 2023-May 2024 From December 1, 2023, to May 31, 2024, the Inquiries, Complaints and Reports Committee (ICRC) made decisions on a total of 15 investigations: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4423,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120\/revisions\/4423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coto.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Competencies Data Overview: December 2023-May 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
of whether the ICRC took any action or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\nCompetency A<\/strong>: <\/strong>Occupational Therapy Expertise <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Competency B<\/strong>: <\/strong>Communication and Collaboration <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Competency C: Culture, Equity, and Justice<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Competency D: Excellence in Practice <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Competency E: Professional Responsibility <\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Serious Concerns<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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relationships with clients \u2013 is limited if communication is an issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n