CSHBC is modifying the application process for Certified Practice (CP) certificates. The modified process will enhance support for CSHBC registrants applying for CP certificates.

The Provincial Health Officer has announced that while masks are still required in some situations in health-care settings, universal mask-wearing by all staff and visitors in health-care facilities is no longer mandatory.

The supervision requirements for Registered Hearing Instrument Practitioners (Conditional) registrants are more prescriptive than the supervision requirements for Registered Audiologists (Conditional) and Registered Speech-Language Pathologists (Conditional). Conditional registrants and their supervisors must ensure they are fully familiar with the specific supervision requirements for their professions.

There are specific criteria registrants must meet before supervising an applicant for a Certified Practice (CP) certificate. Registrants should be aware that serving as a CP supervisor involves substantial responsibility.

If you assign or delegate to a Communication Health Assistant (CHA) to provide health services for clients, you are supervising that CHA. There are key requirements for registrants to meet when supervising CHAs.

CSHBC is requesting registrants to participate in an online survey about Indigenous-specific topics and your current cultural safety, cultural humility, and anti-racism practices. The survey results will provide the College with information on how to provide additional support for registrants on incorporating the CSHBC Indigenous Cultural Safety, Cultural Humility, & Anti-Racism Standard of Practice.

Registration renewal for the 2023/2024 registration year has opened. Registrants who wish to maintain their professional status and licenses to practice as RAUDs, RHIPs, or RSLPs in BC must renew their registration by March 31, 2023. In addition, registrants with Certified Practice certificates expiring on March 31, 2023, must renew these certificates by that deadline.

In addition to the current reporting requirement of 750 practice hours for a primary profession, the amended practice hours requirement outlines that when a registrant is registered as a full registrant in more than one profession, the registrant must also, within the same three-year cycle, practice a minimum of 250 hours in each other profession the registrant is registered in.