PMLS Lesson 10 & 11

Mandatory

Requirement for health practitioner to demonstrate and maintain competence due to the constantly changing scope of. Practice and technological advancement.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD)

• Enhance overall knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

• Aims to improve capability and competency across the entire profession.

• Focuses on holistic lifelong learning.

Continuing Professional Education (CPE)

• Concentrates on learning a specific skills or a set of skills.

• Aims to improve professional competence in particular areas.

• More task- or skill- focused

Executive Order No. 266

Institutionalization of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs of the Various Professional Regulatory Boards under the Supervision of the Professional Regulation Commission (PRC).

PRC Resolution No. 281, Series of 1995

Standardized Guidelines and Procedures for the Implementation of the Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Programs for Professionals

Republic Act 8981

PRC Modernization Act of 2000

Republic Act 10912

Continuing ProfessionalDevelopment (CPD) Act of 2016

RA 10912 - CPD ACT OF 2016

• Lifelong learning = Learning activities undertaken throughout life for the development of competencies and qualification of the professional

• CPD - inculcation of advanced knowledge, skills and ethical values in a post-licensure specialization or in an inter-/multidisciplinary field of study, for assimilation into professional practice, self-directed research, and/or lifelong learning

Chair

(In CPD) Member of Professional Regulatory Board

1st Member

(In CPD) President or officer of an Accredited Professional Organization

2nd Member

(In CPD) President or officer of the national organization of deans or department chairpersons of schools, colleges, or universities offering the course.

1st Member

(In MedTech) President of PAMET

2nd Member

(In MedTech) President of PASMETH

45 days

In CPD Process, CPD providers need to apply their programs to the CPD council at least __ days prior to the conduct of the CPD activity.

Every 3 years

The required period for every professional to renew their Professional Identification Card (PIC).

0%

Required CPD Units on JAN - JUN 2017

30%

Required CPD Units on JUL-DEC 2017

60%

Required CPD Units on 2018

100%

Required CPD Units on 2019 ONWARDS

Participant

Receives the approved credit units assigned to the program.

Supporting Document: Certificate of attendance with hours, seminar program, and participant list.

Professional Track, Academic Track, Self-directed, and Pamphlet/Book or Monograph

CPD Activities includes

Resource Speaker

Earns 3 credit units per hour

Supporting Document: Photocopy of certificate, papers, and program in invitation.

Panelist / Reactor

Earns 2 credit units per hour

Supporting Document: Certification fro sponsoring organization and program copy.

Facilitator / Moderator

Earns 1 credit unit per hour

Supporting Document: Certification from sponsoring organization and program copy

Monitor

Gets twice the number of approved credit units of the program.

Supporting Document: Monitoring report, certificate of appearance, and authority to monitor.

In-Service Training

Na earn a maximum of 20 credit units for a 12-month period (or fraction thereof) upon completion.

Supporting Document: Certificate of training and training description.

Master’s Degree or Equivalent

Full credit unit for compliance period upon completion of degree or full credit units if compliance period upon completion of residency

Supporting Document: University certification, diploma and transcript of record

Doctorate Degree or Equivalent

Additional credit units fro compliance period upon completion of degree

Supporting Document: University certification, diploma and transcript of records

Professional Chair

Earns 15 CU per year

Supporting Document: Certification of grant or appointment paper

Residency/ Externship Specialty/ Subspecialty Program

Earns 10 CU per year

Supporting Document: Hospital certification, certificate of completion

Participant (In fellowship grant)

Earns 2 CU per grant

Supporting Document:

Supporting Document: Certification from the Granting Institution and/ or Certificate of Fellowship

Resource Speaker (In Fellowship Grant)

Earns 4 CU per grant;

Supporting Document: Certification from the Granting Institution and/ or Certificate of Fellowship

Researcher (In Fellowship Grant)

Earns 5 CU per grant

Supporting Document: Certification from the Granting Institution and/ or Certificate of Fellowship

Post Graduate Diploma / Certificate

Earns maximum of 30 CU for a 12-month period or fraction thereof upon completion.

Supporting Document: Diploma/ Certification from the institution

60 days

Evaluation period of CPD

Affidavit of Undertaking

Professional who cannot fulfill the CPD Unit Requirement can file this to allow their PIC renewal.

Health Care Waste

Refers to all solid and liquid wastes generated.

85%

Percentage of Non Hazardous Waste

• Paper and cardboard

• Packaging

• Food waste

15%

Percentage of Hazardous Waste

• Infectious waste

• Pathological waste

• Sharps

• Genotoxic waste

• Pharmaceutical waste

• Radioactive waste

20.19%

Increase in hazardous waste over the past 5 years

Health care waste generators

1. Hospitals

2. Infirmaries

3. Birthing homes

4. Clinics and other health-related facilities

5. Laboratories and research centers

6. Drug manufacturers

7. Institutions

8. Mortuary and autopsy centers

Infectious waste

All wastes suspect to contain pathogens or toxins in sufficient concentration that may cause disease a susceptible host.

Pathological and Anatomical Waste

Tissue sections and body fluid or organs derived from biopsies, autopsies, or surgical procedures sent to the laboratory fro examination.

Sharps Waste

Waste item that can cause cuts, pricks, or puncture wounds. They are considered the most dangerous health care waste because of their potential to cause both injury and infection.

Chemical Waste

Discarded chemicals generated during disinfection and sterilization process.

Pharmaceutical Waste

Expired, split, and contaminated products, drugs, and vaccines including discarded items used in handling pharmaceuticals.

Radioactive Waste

Wastes exposed to radionuclides including radioactive diagnostic materials or radiotherapeutic materials.

Non-hazardous or General Waste

Wastes that have not been in contact with communicable or infectious agents, hazardous chemicals radioactive substances, and do not pose a hazard.

Chronic exposure and acute exposure

Exposure of general population

RA No. 8749

The Philippine Clean Air Act of 1999

RA No. 4226

Hospital Licensure Act if 1965

RA No. 9003

Ecological Solid Waste Management Act of 2001

RA No. 6969

Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Waste Control Act of 1990

RA No. 9275

The Philippines Clean Water Act or 2004

Administrative Order No. 2008-0021

Gradual Phase-Out of Mercury in all Philippine Health Care Facilities and Institutions, July 30, 2008

Administrative Order No. 2008-0023

National Policy on Patient Safety, July 30, 2008

BFAD (FDA) Memorandum Circular No. 22 series of 1994

Inventory, Proper Disposal and/ or Destruction of Used Vials of Bottles

Black Line container

Three-bin system, Non-infectious waste

Yellow lined container

In Three-bin System, Infectious waste and Sharp waste

Brown

Chemical Waste, Pharmaceutical Water

Orange

Radioactive Waste

Green

Biodegradable Waste

Black or Colorless

Non-biodegradable Waste

Incineration

the high-temperature burning of waste to reduce its volume and weight, converting it into ash and gas. Philippines is the only country that banned this process.

Old Radiation Symbol

Cytotoxic Symbol

Biohazard Symbol

Flammable Liquid Symbol

New Radiation Symbol / Ionizing Radiation Sign

Infectious Symbol

Corrosive Symbol

Reactive Symbol

Poison/Toxic Symbol

Pyrolysis

Is the thermal decomposition of health care waste in the absence of supplied molecular oxygen in the destruction chamber where the said waste is converted into gaseous, liquid, or solid form

Autoclave

Is the use of steam sterilization to render waste harmless and is an efficient wet thermal disinfection process.

Microwave

Is a technology that typically incorporates some type of size reduction device

Chemical disinfection

To kill or inactivate present pathogens

Encapsulation

Involves the filling of container with waste, adding and immobilizing material, and sealing the containers

Inertization

Is especially suited for pharmaceutical waste. The homogenous mass produced can be transported to a suitable storage site.

Landfill

Last stop for the trash