Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
ACMVET415A Mapping and Delivery Guide
Provide intensive foal care and nursing
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
Qualification | - |
Unit of Competency | ACMVET415A - Provide intensive foal care and nursing |
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Description | This Unit of Competency covers the skills and knowledge required to provide intensive care of compromised newborn foals during hospitalisation in a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). | ||
Employability Skills | This unit contains employability skills. | ||
Learning Outcomes and Application | The work functions in this Unit are likely to be carried out under minimal supervision within industry guidelines. Candidates undertaking this Unit will require access to work experience and/or employment within an equine NICU.In addition to legal and ethical responsibilities, all units of competency in the ACM10 Animal Care and Management Training Package have the requirement for animals to be handled gently and calmly. The individual is required to exhibit appropriate care for animals so that stress and discomfort is minimised. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. |
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Prerequisites/co-requisites | ACMVET414A Nurse foals | ||
Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
Slides PPT |
Assessment 1 | Assessment 2 | Assessment 3 | Assessment 4 | |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Admit new arrivals to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) |
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Element: Provide nursing care for recumbent foals |
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Element: Provide respiratory support and perform emergency ventilation for foals |
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Element: Assemble crash kit items |
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Element: Prepare and administer enteral and parenteral nutrition to impaired foals in NICU |
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Element: Prepare parenteral medications |
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Element: Implement routine industry standard infection controls in a foal NICU. |
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Element: Provide routine care for mare in NICU. |
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Element: Discharge foals from NICU. |
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