Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes.
- Assess the severity of a burn injury
- Implement burn injury emergency management procedures appropriate to the client’s burn injury
- Identify need(s) for emergency services and medical assistance and undertake triage as required
- Communicate with personnel, emergency management services and medical assistance personnel as appropriate
- Undertake a systematic survey of the client’s clinical status using standard emergency treatment principles
- Use pain management strategies with the client
- Refer clients with a burn injury to a Burn Unit, as appropriate
- Identify and implement emergency management procedures and select correct wound dressing to treat identified type of wound
- Commence intravenous resuscitation under supervision and/or as directed by a medical officer or other qualified personnel
- Monitor and document fluid balance chart
- Monitor and document the client’s ongoing clinical status
- Treat burn injury according to specific burn type
- Undertake a risk assessment of potential hazards in the incident area
- Identify need(s) for emergency services/medical assistance and undertake triage as required
- Communicate with appropriate personnel, emergency management services and medical assistance as appropriate
- Convey information on client’s burn injury to relevant personnel to minimise the risk of complications
- Use Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) when undertaking first aid
- Use irrigation to minimise injury to unaffected body parts and to the health worker
- Identify specific risks and implement management procedures to treat identified burn
- Deliver appropriate first aid to a client, according to type of burns wound, using available resources and within the context of client and environmental factors
- Treat wound(s) in the immediate post-first-aid period
- Assess psychosocial needs and risks, implementing techniques that support the client and family.
- Establish effective communication with a client and family
- Provide a supportive environment to a client and family in crisis
- Identify presentation patterns of possible non-accidental burn injury in children and mandatory obligations when working with children
- Identify presentation patterns of possible non-accidental burn injury in adults and provide appropriate support strategies
- Undertake risk assessment of a client, identifying risk factors which may indicate a risk to self or the safety of others
- Implement burn injury emergency management procedures appropriate to the client’s burn injury
- Identify need(s) for emergency services and medical assistance and undertake triage as required
- Communicate with personnel, emergency management services and medical assistance personnel as appropriate
- Undertake a systematic survey of the client’s clinical status using standard emergency treatment principles
- Use pain management strategies with the client
- Refer clients with a burn injury to a Burn Unit, as appropriate
- Identify and implement emergency management procedures and select correct wound dressing to treat identified type of wound
- Commence intravenous resuscitation under supervision and/or as directed by a medical officer or other qualified personnel
- Monitor and document fluid balance chart
- Monitor and document the client’s ongoing clinical status