Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine the scope of the assessment and the client's needs
- Establish the client's purpose for consultation and identify the symptoms
- Determine the client's eligibility for service using clinic/practitioner policies
- Clearly explain services able to be provided and limits of available services
- Explore and clarify the client's expectation of the service/clinic
- Identify factors likely to have a negative impact on assessment in consultation with the client and wherever possible implement strategies to minimise the effects of these factors
- Explain personal abilities, level of professional competence and parameters of role to the client and practise within these at all times
- Refer client to other health care providers where the needs of the client are identified as beyond the scope of the services able to be provided, or if in the opinion of the practitioner the needs of the client are best met by doing so
- Identify and promote the rights of care of the client
- Obtain and record an accurate history of the client
- Seek information from the client for the client's history with all enquiries asked in a respectful, purposeful, systematic and diplomatic manner
- Collect accurate and relevant in a well-organised form which can be interpreted readily by other professionals
- Treat information as confidential and store securely at all times
- Manage the health assessment
- Obtain informed client consent prior to conducting tests in accordance with legislative requirements
- Pursue abnormal findings and investigate these in a deliberate, logical and appropriate manner
- Assess the reliability of data obtained and where possible clinical correlation with the client's complaints is established
- Use questions to clarify results and gain further information in a manner relevant to the client's needs and test results
- Base decisions to carry out laboratory tests on the integration of previously obtained clinical data and history
- Adhere to the protocol required by the agency in ordering tests
- Allow adequate time during consultation to gather critical information
- Identify and minimise factors that may interfere with the information gathering process
- Identify, establish and observe essential requirements for the maintenance of clinical and practitioner hygiene
- Anticipate potential sensitivities of the client are and adapt approach accordingly to take these into account.
- Take steps to ensure the client's sense of dignity is maintained at all times
- Make a comprehensive assessment of the client
- Apply trividha pariksha (threefold examination method)
- Apply the eightfold examination method if further assessment if necessary
- Determine causative factors of diseases
- Determine different stages of disease
- Determine the samprapti (pathogenesis in ayurveda)
- Determine the different stages of progression of disease and state and location of ama
- Perform ayurvedic differential diagnosis
- Accurately record all information in a systematic manner in accordance with clinic guidelines.