To fulfill our public protection mandate, CKO creates Practice Standards and Guidelines to ensure that kinesiologists provide safe and ethical treatment, care and services to their patients/clients. Kinesiologists must understand and follow these Practice Standards and Guidelines. To help identify learning opportunities and facilitate communication between kinesiologists and CKO, CKO is continuing its series of surveys regarding Practice Standards and Guidelines. The second survey of this series is related to the use of titles and…

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To help identify learning opportunities and facilitate communication between kinesiologists and CKO,  CKO launched a series of Practice Standard and Guideline surveys in March. The first survey was about the Practice Guideline – Scope of Practice, Controlled Acts and Delegation and was published in the March issue of @ CKO, the College’s official e-newsletter. We received many responses from kinesiologists across the province: 29.73% of respondents were from Central West Ontario 24.32% of respondents were from Central Ontario…

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Practice Guideline – Patient/Client-Centred Care In order to define “patient/client-centred care” within the practice of Kinesiology and provide a resource regarding how kinesiologists may provide patient/client-centred care in their practice, CKO drafted a new Practice Guideline on Patient/Client-Centred Care. Council approved the Practice Guideline – Patient/Client-Centred Care for a 60-day public consultation. > Check out the consultation and provide feedback Updated Risk Management Plan – 2023/2024 Council agrees that the updated Risk Management Plan for 2023/2024 appropriately…

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CKO drafted a new Practice Guideline on Patient/Client-Centred Care to define “patient/client-centred care” and how it may apply in the context of kinesiology practice. The draft Practice Guideline includes guidance about the expectations in the Essential Competencies of Practice for Kinesiologists in Ontario. The draft Practice Guideline was approved by Council for a 60-day public consultation from March 27 to May 25, 2024. CKO welcomes feedback from kinesiologists, our system partners, other healthcare professionals and the public. …

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