HLTAHCS002 — Assist with health assessments

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What an assessment for HLTAHCS002 must cover

82 assessable components: 3 elements (19 performance criteria), 12 performance evidence and 47 knowledge evidence requirements, plus 4 foundation skills. An audit-defensible tool maps every question and task back to these — that mapping is the coverage matrix Auditori generates alongside the assessment.

Elements & performance criteria

1 Assist practitioners to collect client information.

1.1Confirm with practitioner own role in health assessment and in collecting client information.
1.2Communicate consistently in culturally appropriate and safe ways with client and/or significant others.
1.3Assist practitioner to obtain client medical and social history and information about specific presenting problems using effective plain language questions.
1.4Facilitate questions and answers between client and practitioner and confirm client understanding.
1.5Assist with explanations about organisational requirements for maintaining confidentiality of information and permissions for disclosure.
1.6Extract and convey essential information, where language barriers exist between client and practitioner.
1.7Discuss and clarify mutual understanding of client information and assist practitioner to document client history.

2 Assist practitioners during examinations and tests.

2.1Facilitate culturally safe and effective communications between practitioner and client throughout all examinations and tests.
2.2Ensure client understands reasons and procedures for each examination and test, confirm informed consent and explain what this means.
2.3Implement required infection control precautions according to examination and test requirements.
2.4Work under instruction to assist with equipment, physical examinations, tests and records.
2.5Participate in culturally safe, empathetic client discussions to assist with social and emotional wellbeing assessments.
2.6Encourage client to express any difficulties with health assessments and tests that relate to community values, beliefs and gender roles.

3 Assist with discussions about assessment outcomes.

2.1Discuss and confirm with practitioner health assessment results, recommended medical and other interventions.
2.2Interpret and clarify, with practitioner, health terminology relevant to assessment outcomes and provide plain language explanations to client.
2.3Deliver clear and accurate information in culturally safe ways to support client and/or significant others understanding of assessment outcomes and proposed actions.
2.4Discuss need for a health care plan, how they are developed and what they comprise.
2.5Encourage client and/or significant others to question and clarify outcomes, and purpose of proposed treatments and interventions.
2.6Confirm client understanding and assist practitioner to document information provided.

Performance evidence

discuss and confirm the health assessment requirements of three different Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients with the attending health practitioner
for each of the three clients:
assist with culturally safe communications throughout all client interactions
assist with the collection of information about their medical and social history and presenting problems
assist with head to toe physical examinations
assist with social and emotional wellbeing discussions and assessments
discuss assessment outcomes with the practitioner
assist with delivery of information about assessment outcomes and advice for medical treatments and other interventions
across the three client assessments collectively, assist the practitioner to:
set up and handle a total of four different types of health assessment equipment
collect a total of two samples for tests
explain one assessment tool designed to evaluate emotional wellbeing.

Knowledge evidence

organisational policies and procedures for:
maintaining client confidentiality
obtaining informed consent for health assessments, examinations and tests
organisational responsibilities and role boundaries of those involved in health assessments:
Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health workers and practitioners
medical practitioners, registered nurses and other members of the multidisciplinary care team
techniques used to assist parties to communicate:
discussing issues in a logical sequence with an opening and concluding discussion
recognising factors that affect communications including cultural differences, age, gender and level of language ability
using appropriate plain language, technical terminology and sentence structure to ask questions and convey information suited to needs including rephrasing statements and questions
asking for clarification
using verbal and non-verbal responses
key information collected and recorded in medical histories
key elements of physical examinations and tests completed during cyclical general health assessments and:
types of equipment used, sufficient to recognise and assist to set up and handle
different types of infection control precautions and when these would be used for different types of physical examinations and tests
key features of assessment tools used to evaluate emotional wellbeing and how these contribute to an overall assessment
structure and overall functions of the major body systems:
circulatory system
digestive system
endocrine system
immune system
integumentary system
musculoskeletal system
nervous system
reproductive system for females and males
respiratory system
urinary system
basic health terminology, abbreviations and plain language usage that relates to:
common pathology tests and medical scans
common short term and uncomplicated infections (those that would generally respond to a course of treatment or ongoing self-care)
chronic and communicable diseases of high incidence in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander populations:
cardiovascular disease
chronic respiratory disease, including asthma and obstructive lung disease
chronic kidney disease
chronic liver disease
cancer
diabetes
musculoskeletal conditions, including arthritis
eye, ear and oral disease
sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
blood borne viruses including HIV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B and hepatitis C
communicable diseases of current significance in the local state, territory or local community
overview of health care plans sufficient to explain to clients:
why a plan is required; including need to manage ongoing health conditions and need to make lifestyle changes
how plans are developed in consultation with clients to suit their circumstances and needs
components of plans including clinical treatment, self-care strategies and management of lifestyle risk factors.

Foundation skills

Reading skills to:: interpret detailed and sometimes unfamiliar client records, involving medical terminology and abbreviations.
Numeracy skills to:: interpret and explain to clients numerical values of assessment outcomes, involving weights, lengths, rates, degrees and percentages.
Problem-solving skills to:: recognise miscommunications and take steps to resolve.
Technology skills to:: recognise and assist with setting up and handling medical equipment used for physical examinations and tests.

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What does an assessment tool for HLTAHCS002 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for HLTAHCS002 needs to address all 82 unit components: 3 elements with 19 performance criteria, 12 performance evidence requirements, 47 knowledge evidence requirements, and the foundation skills. A coverage matrix mapping each question and task to these components is what an auditor looks for.

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