Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Address the health care needs of an older person in contemporary aged care settings
- Identify physical and psychological effects of ageing on the human body and apply insights when providing information and support to the older person
- Recognise the significance of physical and psychosocial assessment when evaluating health of older people and maintain currency of own related knowledge
- Identify funding arrangements and associated documentation requirements that impact aged care provision, and ensure funding and documentation requirements are met as applicable
- Recognise crisis situations involving the older person and implement emergency management as required
- Adjust communication strategies appropriately when communicating with an older person who has sensory loss
- Manage an older person’s care using a person-centred approach to support continued independence
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving approaches to prioritise and adapt nursing interventions to reflect changes in the person’s condition
- Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person rapidly when circumstances change
- Monitor own nursing interventions to ensure they support independence and person-centred care in collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team and the person
- Undertake appropriate pre-, intra- and post-diagnostic procedures for the person in line with organisation policy and procedures
- Identify and interpret rehabilitation principles that underpin appropriate nursing interventions for the older person and apply to nursing care as required
- Identify the person’s understanding of their condition and current therapies and review their ability for self-management
- Confirm the person’s condition, therapies and capacity for self-management with the family or carer where appropriate
- Identify when the acuity of the older person is beyond own skills and knowledge and promptly consult with registered nurse and relevant interdisciplinary health care team members
- Assess and respond to the needs of a person experiencing loss and grief
- Identify the effects that experiencing grief and loss can have on a person’s physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual domains
- Identify factors impacting or potentially impacting the person, family or carer’s experience of grief and loss
- Encourage the person, family or carer experiencing loss or a complex grief reaction to verbalise their feelings, and provide support to them in that process
- Facilitate and assist the interdisciplinary health care team to appropriately communicate adverse news to an older person, family or carer in line with organisation policies and procedures
- Actively promote improvement and advancement of aged care nursing
- Communicate outcomes and proposed actions to the registered nurse and use a collaborative approach for follow up with interdisciplinary team
- Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in aged care nursing
- Recognise and monitor the symptoms of stress and professional carer burnout in self, peers and colleagues, and refer to appropriate services within organisation policies and procedures and scope of practice
- Seek out opportunities and participate in professional development, acquiring knowledge to guide own practice and acting as a resource for colleagues
- Manage an older person’s care using a person-centred approach to support continued independence
- Use critical thinking and problem-solving approaches to prioritise and adapt nursing interventions to reflect changes in the person’s condition
- Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person rapidly when circumstances change
- Monitor own nursing interventions to ensure they support independence and person-centred care in collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team and the person
- Undertake appropriate pre-, intra- and post-diagnostic procedures for the person in line with organisation policy and procedures
- Identify and interpret rehabilitation principles that underpin appropriate nursing interventions for the older person and apply to nursing care as required
- Identify the person’s understanding of their condition and current therapies and review their ability for self-management
- Confirm the person’s condition, therapies and capacity for self-management with the family or carer where appropriate
- Identify when the acuity of the older person is beyond own skills and knowledge and promptly consult with registered nurse and relevant interdisciplinary health care team members