Elements and Performance Criteria
- Determine treatment plan
- Determine treatment options most suitable to the client's condition, based on clinical assessment
- Ascertain contraindications to treatment
- In determining the treatment plan, take into consideration treatment and advice provided by other health care providers
- Take into consideration possible client compliance issues in relation to determining specific treatment options
- Determine treatment plan according to the clinical assessment and therapeutic needs of the client according to clinical guidelines, organisation policies, procedures and own clinical judgment
- Recognise the need for referral where the client's condition requires treatment that is outside the scope or 'authority to practice', and refer client
- Implement treatment plan
- Explain treatment plan clearly and simply to the client
- Give client the opportunity to ask questions and discuss concerns
- Gain informed consent from client in accordance with clinical guidelines, organisation policies and procedures
- Clarify responsibilities of health care provider and client within the treatment plan
- Negotiate client compliance
- Explain factors that may interfere with the effectiveness of the treatment
- Implement client care and treatments in accordance with personal hygiene and infection control procedures
- Ask client to monitor responses to the treatment and to contact health care provider as required
- Agree treatment evaluation/follow up strategies between the client and the health care provider
- Record treatment in a manner that is easily read and interpreted by others and in accordance with organisation policy and procedure
- Manage and review the treatment
- Monitor responses to treatment and review against therapeutic expectations and record according to clinic guidelines
- Evaluate progress with the client
- Evaluate need for ongoing and/or additional treatment
- Negotiate and agree changes to the treatment plan with the client to ensure optimal outcomes
- Instigate additional treatment or referral for further examination as required