In brief
- The most frequent organizations and acronyms.
- Professionals and practice settings.
- Concepts used in the Ordre’s guides.
Who are the organizations?
- OPQ
- Ordre des pharmaciens du Québec, the pharmacists’ professional order. It publishes the practice guides cited on this site.
- AQPP
- Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires, the pharmacist owners’ association, which negotiated the agreement with the government.
- MSSS
- Québec’s Ministry of Health and Social Services.
- RAMQ
- Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec, the provincial health insurance board.
- INESSS
- Institut national d’excellence en santé et en services sociaux, whose guides and protocols the Ordre cites as evidence.
- CAI
- Commission d’accès à l’information, Québec’s privacy regulator, which notably oversees Law 25.
Who are the professionals and settings?
- ATP
- Assistant technique en pharmacie, a pharmacy technical assistant.
- IPS
- Infirmière praticienne spécialisée, a nurse practitioner.
- GMF
- Groupe de médecine de famille, a family medicine group.
- Professional responsible for clinical follow-up
- The person responsible for the patient’s overall health, generally the family physician, a nurse practitioner or the attending physician in hospital.
- Authorized professional
- A professional authorized by law to carry out the act in question, such as a physician or nurse practitioner for a diagnosis.
What are the regulatory concepts?
- Scope of practice
- All of a profession’s main professional activities.
- Common health problem
- A rather minor, non-chronic condition that meets all the regulatory criteria. There is no list.
- Designated substance
- A narcotic, controlled drug or targeted substance.
- Therapeutic substitution
- Replacing a drug with one of a different name, in certain circumstances.
- EPAP
- Entente de pratique avancée en partenariat, a written advanced partnership practice agreement that lets the pharmacist prescribe for an identified group of patients.
- PL 67
- Bill 67 (projet de loi 67), passed on November 7, 2024.
- Law 25
- The common name of the Québec law that modernized the protection of personal information.
What are the clinical concepts?
- DSQ
- Dossier santé Québec, the Québec Health Record, one of the sources the pharmacist can consult.
- PIQ
- Protocole d’immunisation du Québec, the Immunization Protocol, the reference for all vaccinators.
- Red flag
- A sign or symptom that calls for reassessment by an authorized professional. See the details.
- Critical value
- An unexpected result that signals a state critical to life, function or an organ if the prescriber is not told in time.
- Shared decision-making
- An approach where treatment is chosen with the patient, considering their situation and preferences.
Sources: OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · OPQ, practice guide on professional activities (in French) · CAI, main changes under Law 25 (in French)
General information based on the publications cited. This text does not replace professional or legal advice, or the Ordre’s guides.