HLTOUT005 - Assess and deliver standard clinical care

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Unit code: HLTOUT005 | Study level: TAFE
Credit points
N/A
Location
Sunshine
Prerequisites
N/A
Overview
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Overview

This unit of competency describes the skills and knowledge required to conduct clinical assessments and deliver standard patient care in the pre-hospital and out-of-hospital environment.This unit applies to out-of-hospital health care workers. The worker assists in advanced life support, prioritises clinical care, implements time-critical health care procedures and therapies, and monitors patients based on patient needs and in accordance with established clinical practice guidelines and protocols.

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, incl 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:
* performed the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of 160 hours work, under clinical supervision in the workplace
* performed a clinical assessment and implemented standard care in an out-of-hospital context on at least five different patient presentations for an illness or trauma impacting health status including:
* primary survey
* secondary survey
* planning and implementing patient management based on assessment, time-criticality and available resources
* monitoring patient
* transferring care using a systematic approach to handover
* responded in different operational conditions or circumstances to implement the following standard clinical care interventions according to established clinical guidelines and protocols:
* airway management for a patient
* cardiac monitoring through limb leads only
* cardiac rhythm evaluation as shockable or non-shockable
* manual defibrillation on a simulation manikin according to established clinical guidelines and protocols
* administering and responding to the effects of pharmacological therapy to treat and manage patient’s illness or condition
* performed basic life support and be able to assist in advanced life support on an adult, child and infant simulation manikin according to established clinical guidelines and protocols.

Students will also be expected to demonstrate the following knowledge:
* Commonwealth and State/Territory legal considerations for emergency health care workers working in out-of-hospital care, and how these are applied in organisations including:
* discrimination
* duty of care
* mandatory reporting
* health records and information privacy
* drugs and poisons
* informed consent
* work health and safety
* organisational policies and procedures and established clinical guidelines and protocols for patient care and emergency equipment
* ethical considerations for emergency health care workers working in out-of-hospital care, and how these are applied in organisations including:
* scope of practice
* practitioner and patient boundaries:
* responsibilities
* limitations
* National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards
* techniques for assessing and interpreting vital signs
* methods of obtaining and documenting patient medical history for provision to receiving health facility workers including:
* pre-existing conditions
* allergies
* social and emotional wellbeing
* current medication or treatment plans
* components of and techniques used for primary survey and secondary survey
* variations from normal functioning of body systems
* procedures and equipment to be used within established clinical guidelines and protocols for:
* advanced life support assistance
* advanced resuscitation assistance
* critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning techniques and processes for:
* diagnostic reasoning in the clinical setting
* identification of key problems and issues
* risks involved in responding to patient needs
* pathophysiology of common presentations including:
* burns
* trauma
* cardiovascular emergencies
* respiratory disorders including:
* asthma
* common environmental emergencies:
* toxic or industrial chemicals
* heat stress
* exposure to cold
* neurovascular
* digestive and endocrine system including:
* diabetes
* urinary and reproductive issues
* abdominal pain
* stages of labour – pre and post-delivery emergencies
* musculo-skeletal injury
* mental illness:
* definition
* stigma
* causes
* classifications
* acute behavioural disturbance
* poisoning, envenomation or overdose emergencies including:
* neurotoxins, myotoxins, haemotoxins
* illicit drugs
* pharmacology therapy and concepts underpinning pharmacology:
* pharmacological agents for the management of common disorders
* pharmacokinetics
* preparation, properties, uses and indications of pharmacology
* pharmacology terminology
* pharmacodynamics-pharmacological interactions
* safe storage, handling and disposal of pharmacological products in accordance with the Acts and regulations pertaining to these products.

Required reading

The qualified trainer and assessor will advise students of class notes, reading materials produced by VU Polytechnic and further support via VU Polytechnic e-learning system and/or in person.

As part of a course

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

Diploma of Emergency Health Care
HLT51020 | Diploma | 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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