Elements and Performance Criteria
- Elements define the essential outcomes
- Determine scope of client needs
- Explore and clarify client expectations
- Provide clear information about scope and limits of services to be provided
- Collect an accurate, relevant and organised health record and document in a form which can be interpreted readily by other professionals
- Recognise needs that are beyond scope of own practice and make referrals to other health care professionals according to clients needs
- Identify and respond to any barriers to information gathering and assessment
- Seek client information respectfully and sensitively, using purposeful, systematic and diplomatic questions
- Manage information in a confidential and secure way
- Make a physical assessment
- Provide information about the physical assessment process and obtain client consent to proceed
- Follow clinical and practitioner hygiene procedures
- Respect client dignity and anticipate sensitivities
- Seek client feedback on comfort levels
- Assess client through hara, back and meridian palpation
- Integrate observation and sensory information gathering techniques
- Use ongoing questioning with client to gain further information according to clients needs
- Accurately document information from the physical assessment
- Develop treatment plan
- Correlate results of physical assessment with case history
- Consider any available western medical information and incorporate into analysis within scope of own practice
- Analyse energetic patterns and differentiate by assessing signs and symptoms
- Identify condition according to stage and related implications by applying the eight principles of diagnosis
- Identify pre-requisites or contraindications to treatment
- Determine optimum type, duration and frequency of treatments
- Use professional judgement to draw substantiated conclusions about treatment needs
- Establish expected treatment outcomes based on the Shiatsu framework and evidence
- Accurately document proposed treatment plan
- Confirm assessment and treatment plan with client
- Discuss assessment, its implications and rationale for treatment with the client
- Assign and agree treatment priorities and expectations in consultation with the client
- Schedule times and session lengths suited to the required techniques and sequences
- Respond to client enquiries using language the client understands
- Discuss referral and collaborative options with the client according to needs