HLTENN062 — Implement and monitor care for a person with a stoma

1 Contribute to ostomy care.

• 1.1Work within scope of practice to provide and support ostomy and stoma care.
• 1.2Identify specialist care services and community agencies that provide and support ostomy and stoma care, and the possible role in long-term ostomy care.
• 1.3Discuss and evaluate ongoing nursing care and management plan with the supervising registered nurse and the multidisciplinary health care team.
• 1.4Provide continuity of nursing care in partnership with service providers and agencies.

2 Assess health care needs of a person with a stoma.

• 2.1Perform health assessment using assessment tools relevant to current situation and needs.
• 2.2Collect information in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.
• 2.3Identify physiological, pathological and congenital conditions leading to the stoma creation.
• 2.4Determine own knowledge of the condition, therapies and self-management requirements, and impacts on care planning and provision.
• 2.5Identify family and carer’s knowledge of and involvement in the ostomy and stoma care.
• 2.6Identify possible psychological factors impacting person with a stoma, families and carers.

3 Perform nursing interventions to assist a person with a stoma.

• 3.1Follow nursing plan of care to reflect care needs specific to stoma care requirements.
• 3.2Identify and apply principles of contemporary stoma management according to organisational policies and procedures when providing nursing care.
• 3.3Identify opportunities to provide health education and promote health and self-management of the stoma.
• 3.4Provide education to promote health and self-management of the stoma.
• 3.5Identify responses to nursing interventions and person’s understanding of ongoing management of condition, including strategies for self-management.
• 3.6Escalate findings and care that are outside normal parameters to treating team.
• 3.7Identify where acuity of a person exceeds own knowledge, skill and assessed competence and consult with multidisciplinary health care team.

4 Evaluate progress toward expected outcomes of care.

• 4.1Review the nursing plan of care and modify according to progress toward planned outcomes.
• 4.2Evaluate and document understanding of person’s stoma condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management.
• 4.3Identify outcomes against evidence-based best practice in stoma nursing care when evaluating nursing interventions provided.
• 4.4Document outcomes of care and communicate findings to multidisciplinary health care team in accordance with organisational policies and procedures.

What does an assessment tool for HLTENN062 need to cover?

To satisfy the Principles of Assessment and Rules of Evidence, an assessment for HLTENN062 needs to address all 53 unit components: 4 elements with 21 performance criteria, 2 performance evidence requirements, 30 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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