Unit of Competency Mapping – Information for Teachers/Assessors – Information for Learners
HLTAHW020 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Administer medications
Version 1.0
Issue Date: April 2024
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Unit of Competency | HLTAHW020 - Administer medications |
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Learning Outcomes and Application | This unit covers the required skills and knowledge to administer medication to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients. It involves determining the medication requirements of an individual client, calculating dosage and performing the clinical skills necessary to administer the required medication. It also involves supporting a client to self administer medication. This unit applies to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander health workers with the relevant authority in their state or territory to administer medication. The skills in this unit must be applied in accordance with Commonwealth and State/Territory legislation, Australian/New Zealand standards and industry codes of practice. | ||
Duration and Setting | X weeks, nominally xx hours, delivered in a classroom/online/blended learning setting. Unless state or territory legislation prevents practice in the workplace, skills must be demonstrated working in a health service or centre as part of a multi-disciplinary primary health care team with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients and communities. Note: Where state or territory legislation prevents practice in the workplace, simulated assessment environments may only be used in place of workplace assessment. In addition, simulations and scenarios must be used where the full range of contexts and situations cannot be provided in the workplace or may occur only rarely. These are situations relating to emergency or unplanned procedures where assessment in these circumstances would be unsafe or is impractical. Simulated assessment environments must simulate the real life working environment where these skills and knowledge would be performed, with all the relevant equipment and resources of that working environment. Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors. Assessment must be undertaken by a workplace assessor who has expertise in this unit of competency and who is: a Registered Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander Health Practitioner or: a Registered Health Practitioner accompanied by an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person who is a recognised member of the community with experience in primary health care. |
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Competency Field |
Development and validation strategy and guide for assessors and learners | Student Learning Resources | Handouts Activities |
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Elements of Competency | Performance Criteria | |||||||
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes. | ||||||||
Element: The performance criteria specify the level of performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element. | ||||||||
Element: Interpret and clarify orders and instructions for medication |
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Element: Prepare medication |
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Element: Administer medications safely |
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Element: Instruct and monitor clients to self administer medication |
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Element: Administer medications safely |
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Element: Document administration procedures |
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