Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations
made under Section 13 of the
Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act
S.N.S. 2021, c. 4
O.I.C. 2022-35 (effective February 1, 2022), N.S. Reg. 15/2022
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Citation
Definitions
Information in Registry
Persons required to apply for registration in Registry
Application for registration in Registry
Expiry and renewal of registration
Change to information in Registry
Removal from Registry
Reasons for Administrator’s decision
Fines
Citation
1 These regulations may be cited as the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Regulations.
Definitions
2 In these regulations,
“Act” means the Continuing Care Assistants Registry Act;
“care team assistant” means a person employed in a collaborative acute care team
within a health authority to support patients’ activities of daily living and
instrumental activities of daily living;
“certified continuing care assistant” is further defined to include any of the
following:
(i) care team assistants,
(ii) persons employed in a role requiring designation as a certified
continuing care assistant;
“conditional registration” means registration in the Registry of a person hired by an
employer on a conditional basis in accordance with the Educational Requirements
for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy;
“continuing care assistant in training” means a person employed as a continuing
care assistant who is
(i) completing requirements to become a certified continuing care
assistant, and
(ii) hired on a conditional basis in accordance with the Educational
Requirements for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff
Policy;
“registrant” means a person who is registered in the Registry;
“renewal date” means, in any given year,
(i) March 31, and
(ii) the date by which a registrant must renew their registration in the
Registry.
Information in Registry
3 (1) The Registry must include all of the following information about each registrant in
accordance with clause 5(2)(c) of the Act:
(a) contact information, including address, telephone number and email
address;
(b) date of birth;
(c) verification of identification;
(d) gender and preferred pronouns;
(e) citizenship status;
(f) languages spoken;
(g) highest level of education obtained outside the continuing care assistant
profession;
(h) name of continuing care assistant educational program completed and year
of graduation from program;
(i) verification of completion of continuing care assistant educational program;
(j) year of certification as a continuing care assistant in Nova Scotia;
(k) employment status;
(l) information about the registrant’s current employment, including name of
employer, start date, hours worked and duties;
(m) location of initial registration as a continuing care assistant or equivalent;
(n) all locations of past employment as a continuing care assistant or equivalent;
(o) expected retirement date;
(p) whether the registrant is a continuing care assistant in training;
(q) such other information that the Minister determines may be useful to have
for the purpose of continuing care assistant workforce planning.
(2) The information included in the Registry under clause (1)(p) must be made
available to the public.
Persons required to apply for registration in Registry
4 (1) A person who is employed as a continuing care assistant in training must apply for
registration in the Registry.
(2) A person who is a student actively enrolled in a health discipline and hired in the
role of a continuing care assistant in accordance with the Educational
Requirements for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy must apply
for conditional registration in the Registry.
Application for registration in Registry
5 (1) An application for registration in the Registry must include the information
described in subsection 3(1).
(2) For the year 2022 only, applications for registration in the Registry must be filed by
June 30, 2022.
(3) The Administrator must register every person who has applied for registration
under Section 4 in the Registry.
Expiry and renewal of registration
6 (1) A registrant’s registration in the Registry expires each year on December 31.
(2) A registrant who wishes to renew their registration in the Registry for the following
year must submit a completed application for renewal of registration to the
Administrator by the renewal date.
(3) A registrant who is on leave from their employment must maintain their
registration.
Change to information in Registry
7 (1) A registrant with conditional registration must notify the Administrator if they no
longer meet the requirements for conditional registration.
(2) The Administrator must annotate a registrant’s information in the Registry in any
of the following circumstances:
(a) there is an error in the Registry;
(b) the registrant’s name has changed;
(c) the registrant’s contact information has changed.
(3) The registrant must provide verification of a name change as described in clause
(2)(b) at the request of the Administrator.
Removal from Registry
8 The Administrator may remove any of the following from the Registry:
(a) a registrant who has
(i) made a written request to be removed from the Registry, and
(ii) confirmed they do not intend to use the title “Certified Continuing
Care Assistant” or “continuing care assistant” or any derivative of
either title as described in Section 11 of the Act;
(b) a registrant with conditional registration who no longer meets the criteria for
conditional registration;
(c) a registrant who no longer meets the criteria for employment as a continuing
care assistant in training in accordance with the Educational Requirements
for Entry to Practice of Non-Licensed Care Staff Policy;
(d) a registrant who has been determined by the Administrator to be
non-compliant with the Act or these regulations for at least 12 months.
Reasons for Administrator’s decision
9 (1) The Administrator must provide an applicant or registrant with written reasons
explaining why the Administrator has done any of the following:
(a) declined to register an applicant in the Registry;
(b) declined a registrant’s application for renewal of registration in the Registry;
(c) removed a registrant from the Registry.
(2) The Administrator must include with the written reasons described in subsection
(1) information on how the applicant or registrant may have the Administrator’s
decision reviewed.
Fines
10 (1) If the Administrator has issued a fine to a person under subsection 12(3) of the Act,
the Administrator must provide the person with all of the following in writing:
(a) notice of the fine;
(b) information on how the fine may be resolved.
(2) The Administrator must forgive a fine issued to a person under subsection 12(3) of
the Act if the offence that precipitated the fine is resolved within 90 days of the
person receiving notice of the fine.
The following regulations are not yet in force and
are not included in the current consolidation: