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HLTENN025 Mapping and Delivery Guide
Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes

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Issue Date: March 2024


Qualification -
Unit of Competency HLTENN025 - Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes
Description
Employability Skills
Learning Outcomes and Application This unit describes the skills and knowledge required to provide nursing care to a person with diabetes including assessing needs, planning and implementing complex nursing interventions, evaluating outcomes, and educating the person on his/her condition and available resources.This unit applies to enrolled nursing work carried out in consultation and collaboration with registered nurses, and under supervisory arrangements aligned to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia regulatory authority legislative requirements. 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.

Skills must have been demonstrated in the workplace or in a simulated environment as specified in the performance evidence. The following conditions must be met for this unit:

use of suitable facilities, equipment and resources in line with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council’s Standards including:

glucometer

progressive notes of a de-identified person’s medical history

organisation policy and procedures on which the candidate bases the planning

modelling of industry operating conditions including access to real people for simulations and scenarios in enrolled nursing work.

Assessors must satisfy the Standards for Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) 2015/AQTF mandatory competency requirements for assessors.

In addition, assessors must hold current registration as a Registered Nurse with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Prerequisites/co-requisites
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
Elements of Competency Performance Criteria              
Element: Elements define the essential outcomes
       
Element: Identify diabetes care services in the Australian health care environment
  • Provide current accurate information on diabetes care and sources of funding for related services to the person, the family or carer, and to colleagues
  • Identify specialist services and complementary roles of organisations and individuals involved in supporting and delivering diabetes care
  • Liaise with referring agencies and community organisations when providing diabetes care
       
Element: Assess the needs of a person with diabetes
  • Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes
  • Perform holistic nursing assessment using a range of contemporary assessment tools, resources and strategies and incorporating review of the person’s history, current situation and treatment regimes
  • Determine the person’s current understanding of their condition, self-management strategies and medications
  • Identify possible factors impacting the person’s health or significant alterations in the person’s condition, based on own current knowledge of diabetes
  • Identify the family or carer’s understanding of and involvement in the person’s diabetes care, and how this might impact the person’s care planning and provision
       
Element: Perform complex nursing interventions to assist a person to achieve and maintain optimal diabetes health
  • Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person when circumstances change in consultation with registered nurse
  • Prepare the person’s care plan to ensure it reflects the complex care needs of a person with diabetes
  • Identify responses of the person, family or carer to nursing interventions and their understanding of ongoing management of the person’s condition, including strategies for self-management
  • Administer prescribed emergency medication based on sound knowledge of principles of drug actions and in accordance with organisation policies and procedures
  • Evaluate and interpret the person’s blood and urine test results related to their diabetic condition, and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary health care team
  • Liaise with registered nurses about alterations in the person’s condition while providing ongoing support of the person
       
Element: Evaluate the care plan for a person with diabetes, and support a person’s self-management
  • Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team
  • Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care
  • Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them
  • Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management
  • Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs
  • Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management
       
Element: Evaluate the care plan for a person with diabetes, and support a person’s self-management
  • Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team
  • Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care
  • Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them
  • Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management
  • Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs
  • Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management
       


Evidence Required

List the assessment methods to be used and the context and resources required for assessment. Copy and paste the relevant sections from the evidence guide below and then re-write these in plain English.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Identify diabetes care services in the Australian health care environment

1.1 Provide current accurate information on diabetes care and sources of funding for related services to the person, the family or carer, and to colleagues

1.2 Identify specialist services and complementary roles of organisations and individuals involved in supporting and delivering diabetes care

1.3 Liaise with referring agencies and community organisations when providing diabetes care

2. Assess the needs of a person with diabetes

2.1 Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes

2.2 Perform holistic nursing assessment using a range of contemporary assessment tools, resources and strategies and incorporating review of the person’s history, current situation and treatment regimes

2.3 Determine the person’s current understanding of their condition, self-management strategies and medications

2.4 Identify possible factors impacting the person’s health or significant alterations in the person’s condition, based on own current knowledge of diabetes

2.5 Identify the family or carer’s understanding of and involvement in the person’s diabetes care, and how this might impact the person’s care planning and provision

3. Perform complex nursing interventions to assist a person to achieve and maintain optimal diabetes health

3.1 Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person when circumstances change in consultation with registered nurse

3.2 Prepare the person’s care plan to ensure it reflects the complex care needs of a person with diabetes

3.3 Identify responses of the person, family or carer to nursing interventions and their understanding of ongoing management of the person’s condition, including strategies for self-management

3.4 Administer prescribed emergency medication based on sound knowledge of principles of drug actions and in accordance with organisation policies and procedures

3.5 Evaluate and interpret the person’s blood and urine test results related to their diabetic condition, and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary health care team

3.6 Liaise with registered nurses about alterations in the person’s condition while providing ongoing support of the person

4. Evaluate the care plan for a person with diabetes, and support a person’s self-management

4.1 Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team

4.2 Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care

4.3 Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them

4.4 Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management

4.5 Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs

4.6 Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management

The candidate must show evidence of the ability to complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the job role. There must be evidence that the candidate has:

undertaken nursing work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia professional practice standards, codes and guidelines

provided nursing care and management of 2 people with diabetes in the workplace including:

a person who has become hypoglycaemic

a person who has become hyperglycaemic

a person who is demonstrating signs of ketoacidosis.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate essential knowledge required to effectively complete tasks outlined in elements and performance criteria of this unit, manage tasks and manage contingencies in the context of the work role. This includes knowledge of:

anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology related to diabetes and diabetic conditions including:

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes

gestational diabetes mellitus

potential problems related to care of a person with diabetes and the following conditions – with the knowledge sufficiently in-depth and specialised to make considered judgements:

hypoglycaemia

hyperglycaemia

ketoacidosis

hyper osmolar non-ketonic coma

retinopathy

infection

psychosocial issues

microvascular and macrovascular disease

health promotion goals and their expected outcomes including:

exercise

diabetic diet

weight loss (body mass index or waist to hip ratio)

smoking cessation

foot and eye care

factors influencing self esteem of the person with diabetes

issues related to diabetes care delivery and diabetes-related services

underlying environmental and social factors contributing to diabetes in the Australian general population, including the factors involved with higher rates experienced by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander people.


Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assignment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

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Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.

ELEMENT

PERFORMANCE CRITERIA

Elements define the essential outcomes

Performance criteria describe the performance needed to demonstrate achievement of the element.

1. Identify diabetes care services in the Australian health care environment

1.1 Provide current accurate information on diabetes care and sources of funding for related services to the person, the family or carer, and to colleagues

1.2 Identify specialist services and complementary roles of organisations and individuals involved in supporting and delivering diabetes care

1.3 Liaise with referring agencies and community organisations when providing diabetes care

2. Assess the needs of a person with diabetes

2.1 Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes

2.2 Perform holistic nursing assessment using a range of contemporary assessment tools, resources and strategies and incorporating review of the person’s history, current situation and treatment regimes

2.3 Determine the person’s current understanding of their condition, self-management strategies and medications

2.4 Identify possible factors impacting the person’s health or significant alterations in the person’s condition, based on own current knowledge of diabetes

2.5 Identify the family or carer’s understanding of and involvement in the person’s diabetes care, and how this might impact the person’s care planning and provision

3. Perform complex nursing interventions to assist a person to achieve and maintain optimal diabetes health

3.1 Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person when circumstances change in consultation with registered nurse

3.2 Prepare the person’s care plan to ensure it reflects the complex care needs of a person with diabetes

3.3 Identify responses of the person, family or carer to nursing interventions and their understanding of ongoing management of the person’s condition, including strategies for self-management

3.4 Administer prescribed emergency medication based on sound knowledge of principles of drug actions and in accordance with organisation policies and procedures

3.5 Evaluate and interpret the person’s blood and urine test results related to their diabetic condition, and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary health care team

3.6 Liaise with registered nurses about alterations in the person’s condition while providing ongoing support of the person

4. Evaluate the care plan for a person with diabetes, and support a person’s self-management

4.1 Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team

4.2 Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care

4.3 Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them

4.4 Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management

4.5 Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs

4.6 Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management

Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
 
Provide current accurate information on diabetes care and sources of funding for related services to the person, the family or carer, and to colleagues 
Identify specialist services and complementary roles of organisations and individuals involved in supporting and delivering diabetes care 
Liaise with referring agencies and community organisations when providing diabetes care 
Apply knowledge of the pathophysiology of diabetes 
Perform holistic nursing assessment using a range of contemporary assessment tools, resources and strategies and incorporating review of the person’s history, current situation and treatment regimes 
Determine the person’s current understanding of their condition, self-management strategies and medications 
Identify possible factors impacting the person’s health or significant alterations in the person’s condition, based on own current knowledge of diabetes 
Identify the family or carer’s understanding of and involvement in the person’s diabetes care, and how this might impact the person’s care planning and provision 
Manage nursing workload according to a person’s needs and re-prioritise care activities for the person when circumstances change in consultation with registered nurse 
Prepare the person’s care plan to ensure it reflects the complex care needs of a person with diabetes 
Identify responses of the person, family or carer to nursing interventions and their understanding of ongoing management of the person’s condition, including strategies for self-management 
Administer prescribed emergency medication based on sound knowledge of principles of drug actions and in accordance with organisation policies and procedures 
Evaluate and interpret the person’s blood and urine test results related to their diabetic condition, and communicate findings to the interdisciplinary health care team 
Liaise with registered nurses about alterations in the person’s condition while providing ongoing support of the person 
Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team 
Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care 
Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them 
Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management 
Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs 
Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management 
Critically review the care plan and modify according to the person’s progress toward planned outcomes in consultation and collaboration with interdisciplinary health care team 
Evaluate nursing interventions provided and consider identified outcomes against evidence-based best practice in diabetes nursing care 
Identify opportunities where indicated to provide the person, family or carer with information on available community resources and how to access them 
Evaluate the person’s understanding of their diabetes condition, medications, therapeutic regimes and self-management 
Promote the person’s self-management of their condition and assist them to provide accurate information to their family or carer on their diabetes care needs 
Document uptake by the person of specific health promotion initiatives to support their self-management 

Forms

Assessment Cover Sheet

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