Scope of Practice Abstract

The Scope of Practice for Registered Operating Department Practitioners

Guidance on the Scope of Practice for Registered Operating Department Practitioners (ODPs) should enable individual practitioners to understand the limits of their own function and role within the overall Scope of Practice for the profession. By utilising the Scope of Practice the ODP will be able to identify and demonstrate their level of competence and to express clearly the limits of that competence on an individual practitioner basis. Based on the evaluation of their abilities against the accepted professional scope of practice, the ODP is then able to identify and prioritise their own learning needs.

This guidance sets out a number of key concepts that should assist the practitioner in understanding the ODPs Scope of Practice. Therefore it is necessary to:

• Broadly define the Scope of Practice for the profession
• Establish principles that define an individual’s Scope of Practice within the framework of the overall professional scope.
• Explore factors that may govern the current limits of practice or seek to broaden those limits through legitimate development of extension to the Scope of Practice
  

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