HLTAHCS006 — Implement complex health care plans

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What an assessment for HLTAHCS006 must cover

49 assessable components: 4 elements (27 performance criteria), 4 performance evidence and 14 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 Contribute to the planning of treatment and care for clients with long term and complex conditions.

1.1.Review client history and health assessments to ascertain specific requirements of care plan.
1.2.Evaluate current status of client’s condition and impact of previous treatment strategies.
1.3.Identify proposed treatments using organisational standard treatment protocols and within scope of own practice.
1.4.Discuss treatment proposals and options that respond to the complexity of client needs with health care team members.
1.5.Develop proposed care plan in collaboration with health care team.
1.6.Establish clear responsibilities for implementing care plan.

2 Communicate proposed care plan to client.

2.1.Use culturally appropriate and safe communication to discuss proposed care plan with client and explain how it relates to health assessment results.
2.2.Provide client with information about each aspect of proposed care plan and reasons for inclusion.
2.3.Encourage client questions about proposed care plan to support understanding, cooperation, and agreement.
2.4.Assist client to express their needs, preferences and goals, and encourage their choices about own health care.
2.5.Encourage active involvement of client and/or significant others in health management to ensure optimum care plan outcomes.
2.6.Explain to client importance of regular check-ups, tests and re-assessments in the ongoing management of their health.
2.7.Consult with health care team about client-suggested care plan changes and adjust as agreed.
2.8.Update client records to include the finalised care plan, according to organisational policies and procedures.

3 Implement clinical treatments and provide referrals.

3.1.Select and use medical equipment suited to purpose of treatment and according to manufacturer specifications.
3.2.Implement required infection control precautions according to treatment requirements.
3.3.Administer clinical treatments according to scope of practice and organisational standard treatment protocols.
3.4.Demonstrate and explain, to client, correct techniques for self-care treatments.
3.5.Discuss required lifestyle modifications and offer brief interventions for smoking cessation and reduction or cessation of alcohol consumption, as relevant to client.
3.6.Facilitate referrals to health professionals and support services according to client needs and preferences.
3.7.Update client records to include details of referrals, treatments and self-care information provided.

4 Monitor client’s health and review effectiveness of health care.

4.1.Organise follow-up care for client and use active recall strategies for overdue care.
4.2.Monitor client’s health through ongoing scheduled assessments incorporated in care plan.
4.3.Gain feedback from client and/or significant others about their level of comfort and adherence to care plan.
4.4.Evaluate improvement of client’s health, compare with care plan expectations and consult with health care team to determine impact of health care.
4.5.Provide clear information to client and/or significant others about health outcomes and relationship to care plan and adherence.
4.6.Coordinate review of care plan to suit client’s current health status and for ongoing health management.

Performance evidence

develop a complex health care plan, in collaboration with the health care team and client, for a total of five Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients to collectively include: • females • males • people across the lifespan including children and adolescents through to the elderly • people with: • complex acute conditions • chronic disease • communicable disease
for each of the five clients, and according to their individual needs and care plan: • explain all aspects of their care plan • discuss the need for lifestyle modifications and provide advice on support services that can assist • administer clinical treatments within scope of practice, and collectively covers at least five different treatments across the five clients • monitor the client’s ongoing health and evaluate, in consultation with the health care team, outcomes against their care plan • document, in client records, accurate details of each client contact, referrals provided, treatments administered and the evaluation of health outcomes.
offer a brief intervention for smoking cessation to one client
offer a brief intervention for reduction or cessation of alcohol consumption to one client.

Knowledge evidence

organisational policies and procedures for recording care plans in client records
organisational responsibilities and role boundaries of those involved in developing and implementing care plans: • Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health practitioners • medical practitioners, registered nurses and other members of the health care team
the role of standard treatment protocols in developing and implementing care plans: • types that are used by primary health care organisations including Standard Treatment Manuals (STM) and how to access • purpose, format and inclusions • how to use to identify treatment options and administer treatments for complex health conditions and chronic disease
the concept of holistic health care management, and the broad meaning of a ‘treatment’ within a care plan
common types of treatments included in care plans for the management of complex health conditions and chronic disease and when the following are indicated: • use of medications • clinical treatments • client self-care strategies • surgery • management of lifestyle risk factors and modification of lifestyle choices
formats and typical inclusions of written care plans for complex health conditions: • clinical risks of treatments to the individual client • details of planned treatments and referrals • treatment and client goals • schedules for follow-up care, monitoring and reassessment • roles and responsibilities of health care team members
the importance of developing care plans that involve the client, significant others and multidisciplinary health care practitioners
how to access information about lifestyle modification support services available in the community and state or territory
for brief interventions: • meaning, opportunistic nature and how to judge when they would be useful and when they would be counterproductive • aims associated with brief interventions and how these differ from counselling and cessation support services • motivational interviewing techniques that can be used
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 including alcoholic liver disease and cirrhosis • 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
chronic and communicable diseases of current significance in the state/territory and local community
for each of the above listed chronic and communicable diseases: • pathology and other tests used to monitor, and recommended intervals • overview of the common forms of clinical treatment including their aim • types of treatments that are administered by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health practitioners, and associated standard treatment protocols, equipment and infection control precautions
wound management and care associated with chronic disease including prevention, cleaning and dressing
the importance of continuity of care for clients with complex health conditions, and: • how health care team members work together to coordinate treatments and care, and how to facilitate referrals • the need for regular attendance, check-ups, and reassessment for changes in presentation and detection of complications • how to use client information systems and recall functions to follow-up clients for care and regular check-ups.

Foundation skills

Reading skills to:: • interpret sometimes complex and unfamiliar standard treatment protocols and client records involving medical terminology and abbreviations.
Writing skills to:: • use fundamental sentence structure, health terminology and abbreviations to complete forms and reports that require factual information.
Oral communication skills to:: • provide unambiguous information to clients using plain language and terms easily understood • incorporate motivational interviewing techniques into client interactions and brief interventions • ask open and closed probe questions and actively listen to elicit information from clients and determine understanding of information provided.
Numeracy skills to:: • interpret sometimes complex medical numerical data and abbreviations in standard treatment protocols and client records • complete a range of calculations for treatments and care plan evaluations involving volume, percentages and ratios.

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What does an assessment tool for HLTAHCS006 need to cover?

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