CHCCCS041 - Recognise healthy body systems

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Unit code: CHCCCS041 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
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Location
Footscray Nicholson
Industry
St Albans
Sunshine
Werribee
Prerequisites
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Overview

This unit describes the performance outcomes, skills and knowledge required to work with basic information about healthy body systems and the impacts of ageing and disability. It includes recognising and reporting any changes in healthy bodies involving people who are ageing or living with disability. Any identified issues of concern to be reported to the supervisor or professional health staff.This unit applies to workers across a range of community services contexts.

Assessment

For Melbourne campuses

Assessment tasks will be designed to reinforce & extend knowledge and skill competence within set & controlled parameters in accordance with each units 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:

  • use information about the human body and its healthy functioning to carry out tasks in three different situations involving people who are ageing or living with disability.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:

  • basic structure, functions and interactions of body systems and associated components:
  • cells, tissues and organs
  • cardiovascular system
  • respiratory system
  • musculoskeletal system
  • endocrine system
  • digestive system
  • urinary system
  • renal system
  • reproductive system
  • integumentary system
  • lymphatic system
  • nervous system, including sensory systems, eye and ear
  • special senses including smell, taste, vision, equilibrium and hearing
  • immune system
  • processes, conditions and resources required by the body to support healthy functioning:
  • body regulation:

    maintenance of body temperature
    fluid and electrolyte balance including pH
    elimination of wastes from the body
    maintenance of blood pressure

  • protection from infection
  • physical activity including active and passive
  • impacts of ageing and disability
  • health status and physical condition:
  • common diseases that impact on body system functioning
  • indicators of changes
  • impacts of ageing and disability
  • impact on wellbeing
  • how and when to report and to whom
  • scope of job role in recognising and reporting changes in physical, psychological and mental health condition
  • indicators of body system issues, impacts of ageing and disability and procedures for how and when to report issues relating to:
  • continence
  • malnutrition
  • dehydration
  • weight regulation
  • oral health
  • appetite regulation
  • dysphagia
  • bowel health issues
  • bone health issues
  • food intolerance
  • skin integrity issues including wounds and pressure point injuries
  • dementia
  • cognitive changes
  • mental health
  • strategies to promote and maintain health and wellbeing:
  • nutrition
  • hydration
  • skin integrity
  • movement
  • social interaction
  • procedures for working with a multidisciplinary health team to implement individualised plans, including escalating concerns with and changes in a person’s status
  • relationship between nutrition and hygiene
  • impact of poor oral hygiene on nutrition
  • impact of poor oral hygiene on quality of life
  • recognising signs of oral pain
  • exercise and movement:
  • impact of restrictions on daily life
  • impacts of ageing and disability
  • common conditions:
  • physical disability
  • cognitive disability
  • intellectual disability
  • psychosocial disability
  • sensory disability
  • how to recognise change in the person from their normal to not normal:
  • physical change
  • mood change
  • pain and discomfort:
  • responses from people in pain
  • communication methods
  • pain scales
  • impacts of ageing and disability
  • basic medical terminology and abbreviations relevant to body systems
  • organisational policies and procedures for reporting.

Required reading

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

As part of a course

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

Certificate III in Individual Support
CHC33021 | Certificate iii | Duration:

Refer to the course page for information on how to apply for the course. VU takes care to ensure the accuracy of this unit information, but reserves the right to change or withdraw courses offered at any time. Please check that unit information is current with the Student Contact Centre.

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