NZQA Expiring unit standard
Title Move a patient in preparation for transportation
3 Credits 4 Level
Purpose
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People credited with this unit standard are able to move a patient in preparation for transportation.
Classification
Available grade
Entry information
Emergency Services > Pre-Hospital Emergency Care
Achieved
Critical health and safety prerequisites
Prerequisite: Unit 25412, Provide basic pre-hospital emergency care, or demonstrate equivalent knowledge and skills.
Explanatory notes
1 Definitions
Current pre-hospital emergency care practices – for the purposes of this standard, these refer to clinical techniques or methodologies that have proven to be most effective at delivering a desired outcome and are actively promoted across the prehospital emergency care sector.
Extrication devices – may include but are not limited to: long spine board, short spine board, basket stretchers, scoop stretchers. These devices are used to move patients from difficult locations. The device used will vary according to the situation and injury, and availability of equipment.
Risk to patient safety – includes deterioration in medical condition, further injury, the detaching or loosening of safety devices.
Rescuer safety – includes prevention of threat from environmental hazards; and injury from the use of incorrect techniques.
2 References
References may include New Zealand Resuscitation Council (NZRC) handbooks and guidelines, the protocols of the organisation employing the candidate, equipment manufacturer’s documentation, and current texts relating to pre-hospital emergency care practices. NZRC handbooks and guidelines relate to all aspects of adult, child, and infant basic life support, and are available at http://www.nzrc.org.nz
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3 Range
All procedures in this unit standard should be carried out: a according to current pre-hospital emergency care practices; b in a manner that will not exacerbate the patient’s condition; and c in compliance with the Health and Safety in Employment Act 1992, and subsequent amendments.
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Outcome 1
Move a patient in preparation for transportation.
Range a minimum of two extrication devices is required.
Evidence requirements
1.1 The patient is moved without compromising the safety of the patient and the rescuers.
1.2 The securing of the patient to the extrication device ensures minimum risk to patient and rescuer safety.
1.3 The patient is moved so that their condition is not compromised and their comfort and dignity are taken into account.
1.4 The condition of the patient is reassessed after moving, and further action initiated if required.
Replacement information This unit standard and unit standards 25411 and 25412 have been replaced by unit standard 29321.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by the last date for assessment set out below.
Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process Version Date Last Date for Assessment
Registration 1 25 June 1998 31 December 2019
Review
Revision
2
3
21 June 2004
21 March 2006
31 December 2019
31 December 2019
Review 4 20 February 2009 31 December 2019
Review 5 10 December 2015 31 December 2019
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference 0003
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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The Skills Organisation
SSB Code 100401
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NZQA Expiring unit standard
Please note
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Providers must be granted consent to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be granted consent to assess against standards by
NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Providers and Industry Training Organisations, which have been granted consent and which are assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Requirements for consent to assess and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR). The
CMR also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.
Comments on this unit standard
Please contact The Skills Organisation support@skills.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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SSB Code 100401
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