VU23791 - Identify features of personal healthcare

Unit code: VU23791 | Study level: TAFE
Nominal hours
20
Location
Footscray Nicholson
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to access healthcare information and services in Australia related to personal health needs. It requires the ability to identify common illnesses and ailments that may affect an individual and actions taken to manage these.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each unit’s learning outcomes & performance criteria requirements, including the setting of work based practical application tasks designed to provide evidence of competence outcomes, within periodic and scheduled timelines.

Students will be expected to demonstrate the following required skills:

  • recognise two common health issues and the appropriate management actions that may be a remedy
  • identify three common household medicines and health equipment and their uses
  • source and interpret health information to respond appropriately to two

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • reading strategies to engage with simple printed and/or digital texts
  • common health issues and medicines, and /or equipment available to remedy
  • healthcare services available in the local area appropriate to the self
  • availability of local medical emergency services for personal health-related events.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will provide teaching and learning materials as required in the form of workbooks produced by the Victoria University and/or via the Victoria University e-learning system.

As part of a course

This unit is studied as part of the following course(s):

Certificate I in General Education for Adults (Introductory)
22689VIC | Certificate i | Duration:

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