Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Obtain information about physical health status
- Obtain accurate information about physical health status through observation, questioning or review of documentation
- Interpret information based on understanding of the structure and functioning of body systems
- Use information to identify any actual or potential problems regarding health status
- Take into account factors that may have impacted on an identified physical condition
- Check physical health status
- Make checks of client health status prior to delivery of health intervention using knowledge of body systems
- Clarify significance of physical health status in relation to a particular intervention in line with job role and organisation requirements
- Clarify implications and significance of physical health status with appropriate people in the case of uncertainty or limits on own capability or authority
- Identify variations from normal physical health status
- Identify variations from normal health status using standard methods and protocols
- Identify potential factors responsible for significant variations from normal health status
- Identify potential risk factors associated with variations from normal health status
- Recognise and refer potentially serious issues in line with organisation requirements