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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Elements define the essential outcomes
2. Determine scope of client needs
   • Explore and clarify client expectations
   • Provide clear information about scope and limits of lifestyle services to be provided
   • Recognise needs that are beyond scope of own practice and make appropriate referrals to other health care professionals
   • Identify and respond to any barriers to information gathering and assessment
   • Seek client information ethically and respectfully
3. Seek information and make assessment using Ayurvedic tools
   • Collect accurate and relevant health and lifestyle information, and document in a form which can be interpreted readily by other Ayurvedic practitioners
   • Follow clinical and practitioner hygiene procedures
   • Frame client questions based on Ayurvedic framework trividha pariksha (three fold examination) and ashtvidha pariksha (eight fold examination)
   • Determine prakruti, vikruti, ama and gunas using Ayurvedic principles
   • Accurately record client’s presenting issues, goals and expectations
   • Manage information and records in a confidential and secure way
4. Confirm assessment and discuss with client
   • Correlate findings from client assessment
   • Determine imbalances through review of findings according to Ayurvedic principles
   • Discuss assessment and rationale with the client
   • Assign and agree priorities and expectations in consultation with the client
   • Respond to client enquiries using language the client understands
   • Discuss referral and collaborative options with the client according to specific needs

Performance Evidence

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be evidence that the candidate has:

performed the activities outlined in the performance criteria of this unit during a period of at least 200 hours of Ayurvedic lifestyle client consultation work

prepared for and managed at least 25 different Ayurvedic lifestyle assessments. Clients must include males and females from different stages of life

used the Ayurvedic lifestyle assessment framework and appropriate techniques to assess client’s needs, including:

questioning according to Ayurvedic principles

trividha parikisha (three fold examination)

ashtvidha pariksha (eight fold examination)

interacted effectively with clients:

clearly articulated information about services, treatment options and rationale

engaged clients in decision making

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Knowledge Evidence

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:

legal and ethical considerations (national and state/territory) for client assessment:

codes of conduct

duty of care

informed consent

mandatory reporting

practitioner/client boundaries

privacy, confidentiality and disclosure

records management

work role boundaries

working within scope of practice

presenting symptoms that require referral to a medical practitioner

work health and safety

referral options for practitioners :

professional health services including complementary health modalities and medical practitioners

community resources and support services

types and availability of further medical assessment

factors and barriers that may impact on assessment

physical

psychological

cultural

seasonal

demographic

influence of alcohol, drugs

stress factors to consider in assessment and how to respond:

age - infants, children, young adult, adults, elders

demographic

gender specific issues

physical/mental strength, gunas, vikruti

agni

dosha

vikriti (inherited and congenital)

infection

odour

seasons

stress

modern radical lifestyle including dependence on fast foods, incompatible foods, addictions

alcohol and other mind altering drug addictions

atheist, anti social and other contradictory practices detrimental to health according to Ayurvedic framework

emergencies

trividha pariksha (three fold examination) and ashtvidha pariksha (eight fold examination)

client information required for Ayurvedic assessment and the scope and depth of information needed around:

client expectations

client history and its components

client current state of wellness

protocols for performing Ayurvedic health assessments:

Ayurvedic clinic environment

equipment

client privacy

client instructions

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