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Title
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Observe, report, and document changes in a person’s condition in a health or disability setting
Level
Purpose
2 Credits 2
People credited with this unit standard are able to observe, report, and document, changes in condition in a person receiving care or support in a health or disability setting.
Classification Health, Disability, and Aged Support > Community Support
Services
Available grade Achieved
Explanatory notes
Version 3 was republished to correct errors in the replacement information.
1 In the context of this unit standard, support should aim to maintain, improve, or restore a consumer’s independence and/or interdependence; utilise the consumer’s existing strengths; and – where possible – utilise the resources of the local community.
2 Legislation and codes relevant to this unit standard include:
Health and Disability Commissioner (Code of Health and Disability Services
Consumers’ Rights) Regulations 1996 (the Code of Rights);
This unit standard is
Human Rights Act 1993;
Privacy Act 1993. expiring
3 New Zealand Standards relevant to this unit standard include:
NZS 8134.0:2008 Health and disability services Standards
– Health and disability services (general) Standard ;
NZS 8134.1:2008 Health and disability services Standards – Health and disability services (core) Standards ;
NZS 8134.2:2008 Health and disability services Standards – Health and disability services (restraint minimisation and safe practice) Standards ;
NZS 8134.3:2008 Health and disability services Standards
– Health and disability services (infection prevention and control) Standards ;
NZS 8158:2003 Home and Community Support Sector Standard ; available at http://www.standards.co.nz/ .
4 This unit standard cannot be assessed against in a simulated environment. For assessment, candidates must demonstrate competence in the workplace through
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5 Definitions
Organisation’s policies and procedures are the policies and procedures of the employing organisation of the candidate and include ethical codes, standards, and other organisational requirements.
To report is to pass on information about a person's condition to the appropriate authority, as specified in the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Service plan is a generic term that covers the individual or group plans (which may also be referred to by other names) that are developed by service providers for people receiving support (and may include their family/ whānau as appropriate).
Outcome 1
Observe changes in condition in a person receiving care or support in a health or disability setting.
Range may include but is not limited to – physical, behavioural, environmental, emotional; evidence is required of an example of two changes observed either in one person or two different people.
Evidence requirements
1.1 Observation relates to conditions documented in the person’s service plan.
1.2 Observation relates to observations requested in the progress reports.
1.3
1.4
Outcome 2
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Observation relates to changes in condition not previously reported, as applicable. expiring
Report changes in condition in a person receiving care or support in a health or disability setting.
Evidence requirements
2.1 Changes are reported in accordance with the o procedures. rganisation’s policies and
2.2 Changes are reported in accordance with legislative requirements and the Code of Rights.
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Outcome 3
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Document changes in condition of a person receiving care or support in a health or disability setting.
Evidence requirements
3.1 Documented change notes accord with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
3.2 Documented change notes are accurate and effective.
Range legible, factual, permanent ink, date, time, signature, condition changes, response to care, legislative requirements.
3.3 Documented change notes are described in terms of their impact on the achievement of a person’s independence goals.
Replacement information
This unit standard and unit standards 20964 and 23926 have been replaced by unit standard 28517.
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 20 March 2008 31 December 2016
Revision
Review
2
3
21 January 2011
19 March 2015
31 December 2016
31 December 2018
Rollover 4 17 September 2015 expiring
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
31 December 2018
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This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Please note
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.
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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.
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