Elements and Performance Criteria
- Analyse and interpret information received
- Correlate results of the health assessment with case history
- Recognise signs and symptoms of condition in the client and identify as pre-requisites for treatment/care
- Assess information gathered and assign priorities in consultation with the client using the knowledge and experience and theoretical principles applied by the practitioner
- Gather, record and organise information in a way which can be interpreted readily by other professionals
- Analyse patterns, differentiate by assessing signs and symptoms and give priority for treatment
- Identify condition according to stage and related implications
- Use professional judgment to draw sound conclusions and prognosis from the data collected
- Elicit all assessment signs and symptoms in a thorough and objective manner to avoid premature conclusions on the treatment plan
- Systematically monitor the client's progress in order to confirm the clinical impression
- Effectively combine history and clinical data to obtain a differential assessment and prognosis
- Apply oriental therapies assessment framework
- Gather, record and organise history and clinical data in a way which can be interpreted readily by other health professionals
- Compare and contract history and clinical data to obtain a differential assessment and prognosis
- Assess information gathered, identify patterns through assessment of signs and symptoms and give priority for treatment
- Identify condition according to stage and related implications (eg empty/full) by applying the eight principles of diagnosis
- Use information collected throughout the treatment to draw sound conclusions and prognosis
- Systematically monitor client's progress in order to confirm the clinical impression
- Inform the client