Elements and Performance Criteria
- Assess and maintain health of neonatal foals
- Assess foal growth and development to six weeks of age
- Perform a physical examination of an equine neonate
- Care for and handle sick or compromised foals
- Caring procedures are carried out in accordance with workplace health and safety requirements and infection control protocols
- Sick or compromised foal are caught, held and restrained.
- Nursing assistance for compromised foals is provided.
- Assistance is provided with assessment to determine if a foal requires special foal nursing and intensive care.
- Foal maturity and dysmaturity is assessed.
- Provide initial care for critically ill foal
- Identify the clinical signs of common foal diseases in the early neonatal period.