Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for clinical procedure
- Assess environment for suitability to conduct a clinical procedure
- Establish sterile field in accordance with aseptic principles and infection control if required
- Select and assemble equipment, consumables and documentation in accordance with health care practitioner's instructions/preferences, organisation policy, procedures and manufacturer's specifications
- Arrange equipment in order of use and in accordance with the health care practitioner's requirements
- Ensure emergency equipment and procedures are in place and ready for use
- Use personal protective equipment as required
- Prepare client for clinical procedure
- Assist during the clinical procedure
- Follow personal hygiene and infection control procedures to reduce risk of infection in accordance with health care practitioner's instructions/preferences, organisation policy, procedures and manufacturer's specifications
- Provide equipment and consumables to health care practitioner safely and in accordance with the needs of the procedure and the maintenance of sterility
- Ensure personal movement around a sterile field conforms with aseptic principles to avoid contamination of the sterile field
- Report any contamination of sterile field to health care practitioner
- Assist health care practitioner in handling and monitoring the client
- Receive, label and store pathology specimens in accordance with health care practitioner's instructions, organisation policies and procedures
- Respond to emergency situations in accordance with health care practitioner's instructions, organisation policies and procedures
- Conclude clinical procedures
- Apply dressings in accordance with health care practitioner's instructions and clinical guidelines
- Assist client with movement and ambulation post clinical procedure
- Dispatch pathology specimens in accordance with organisation policy and procedures
- Clean and/or dispose of equipment and consumables in accordance with manufacturers' requirements and infection control procedures
- Store equipment in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
- Make and document arrangements for client review according to clinical guidelines, organisation policies and procedures