Elements and Performance Criteria
- Establish and implement a personal health strategy
- Develop personal health and awareness according to values consistent with health discipline philosophy and practice
- Provide a model for personal and community health by demonstrating and maintaining self discipline, personal values and professional identity
- Demonstrate punctuality, mental and physical stamina, focussed attention, genuine interaction and consistency with own advice
- Develop an appreciation of the human condition
- Develop a professional identity
- Recognise, understand and apply the health work roles and abilities in accordance with accepted standards
- Ensure the practice setting is appropriate to the standards and requirements of the client, the profession and the public
- Demonstrate confidence, recognition of self-limits and a capacity to establish and maintain a professional approach
- Interact with the health care profession
- Cultivate communication with other members of the health sector, other health care professionals and the general public, as required to identify, develop and maintain professional standards
- Receive or dispatch information critical to responsible client management to other professionals or services
- Respect and acknowledge external case management or intervention selected by the client