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Title
Receive and transfer a deceased person to a mortuary when working
as an orderly in a health or disability context
Level
3
Credits
6
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe
procedures for the transfer of a deceased person to a mortuary,
transfer a deceased person from a medical unit to a mortuary,
and receive a deceased person from an external agency and
transfer that person to a mortuary, when working as an orderly
in a health or disability context.
Classification
Health, Disability, and Aged Support > Health and Disability
Principles in Practice
Available grade
Achieved
Explanatory notes
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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);
Births, Deaths, Marriages, and Relationships Registration Act 1995;
Burial and Cremation Act 1964;
Coroners Act 2006;
Cremation Regulations 1973;
Health and Disability Services (Safety) Act 2001;
Health Information Privacy Code 1994;
Human Tissue Act 2008;
New Zealand Public Health and Disability Act 2000;
Resource Management Act 1991.
2
New Zealand Standard relevant to this unit standard:
NZS 8134.1:2008 Health and disability services Standards – Health and disability
services (core) Standards.
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References
Chief Advisor Tikanga, Auckland District Health Board. (2003). Board guidelines –
Tikanga recommended best practice. Retrieved 25 March, 2011, from
http://www.adhb.govt.nz/researchoffice/mrrc/tikanga_-_rbp.html;
Māori Pacific Ethnic Services, New Zealand Police. (2009). A practical reference to
religious diversity. (2nd ed.). Wellington: Author, available at
http://www.police.govt.nz/service/ethnic/Police%20Religion%20Handbook.pdf;
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Te Puni Kōkiri. (1999). Hauora o te tinana me ōna tikanga: A guide for the removal,
retention, return and disposal of Māori body parts and organ donation: Service
providers. Wellington: Ministry of Māori Development.
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This unit standard cannot be assessed against in a simulated environment. For
assessment, candidates must demonstrate competence in the workplace through
paid or unpaid employment, or in placements in a service provider workplace
negotiated by an education provider.
5
Candidates’ practice must reflect appropriate values, processes, and protocols in
relation to working with Māori and Pacific peoples and/or people from other cultures,
in a range of settings and environments.
6
The terms ‘respect for the deceased person’, and ‘respect for the deceased person’s
culture’ should be interpreted in relation to the Code and s 18 of the Human Tissue
Act 2008. Legally, the Code only covers living people, but this unit standard requires
that candidates act in accordance with the Code's statements of consumers' rights
when receiving and transferring a deceased person, and in their interactions with the
deceased person's family/whānau. Similarly, the Human Tissue Act 2008, s 18,
requires that a ‘person collecting or using human tissue [which can include a whole
human body] must take into account, so far as they are known to the person based
on information available to the person in the circumstances, the cultural and spiritual
needs, values, and beliefs of the immediate family of the individual whose tissue is
collected or used’. Whilst an orderly neither ‘collects' nor 'uses' human tissues, this
unit standard requires that orderlies comply with the same standard established by s
18 of the Act when receiving and transferring a deceased person.
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Definitions
Candidate refers to the person seeking credit for this unit standard.
Client in the context of this unit standard refers to a person accessing services in a
health or disability setting. Clients, who may also be known as consumers, patients,
or tūroro in particular contexts and settings, may include outpatients in a medical
facility.
Culture refers to the totality of socially transmitted beliefs, values, customs, behaviour
patterns and/or practices, together with all other products of human work and thought
that are common to – or characteristic of – a particular group or community. The
concept of culture may reflect factors and indicators such as: age, ethnicity, disability,
gender, occupation, organisational background, immigrant or refugee status,
institutional care, religion or spiritual beliefs, sexual orientation, and socio-economic
status.
Hinengaro refers to the mind, psychological, thoughts, intellect.
Medical unit in the context of this unit standard refers to a private room, ward,
specialist department, or operating theatre within a medical facility.
An orderly is a person employed in a medical facility who undertakes a variety of
assistive and support tasks that do not involve the medical treatment of clients.
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.
An outside agency refers to: New Zealand Police/Nga Pirihimana o Aotearoa,
St John Ambulance, a licensed funeral director.
Receive in the context of this unit standard refers to the physical hand-over of a
deceased person from an outside agency, at or within a medical facility.
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Tangihanga refers to a funeral ceremony.
Transfer in the context of this unit standard refers to conveying a deceased person
from one medical facility to another medical facility, or within a medical facility.
Uplift in the context of this unit standard means physically to collect a deceased
person at an agreed time and place in order to transfer that deceased person to
another place.
Wairua refers to spirituality, spiritual element, the soul, or spiritual part of a person
that exists beyond death.
Whakapapa refers to genealogy, cultural identity.
Whenua refers to afterbirth, placenta, earth, land.
Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Describe procedures for the transfer of a deceased person to a mortuary when working as
an orderly in a health or disability context.
Evidence requirements
1.1
The transfer of a deceased person is described in terms of the organisation’s
policies and procedures.
Outcome 2
Transfer a deceased person from a medical unit to a mortuary when working as an orderly
in a health or disability context.
Range
evidence is required for two transfers of a deceased person;
one transfer must demonstrate respect for the deceased person’s culture, and
one transfer must demonstrate respect for Māori cultural concepts of
whakapapa, whenua, wairua, hinengaro, and tangihanga, in accordance with
the references, the legislation, and the Code.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Procedures for uplifting a deceased person from a medical unit are carried out
in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures and any
requirements of a coroner or the police.
2.2
Transfer of a deceased person from a medical unit to a mortuary is carried out
in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
2.3
Transfer of a deceased person from a medical unit to a refrigerated unit is
carried out in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Range
must include – identification of the deceased person, positioning of
a mortuary trolley in a refrigerated unit.
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2.4
Documentation for uplift and transfers is completed in accordance with any
requirements of a coroner or the police, legislative requirements, and the
organisation’s policies and procedures.
2.5
Procedures to finalise the transfer of a deceased person are carried out in
accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Range
cleaning and storing equipment, ensuring the security of premises.
Outcome 3
Receive a deceased person from an external agency and transfer that person to a
mortuary when working as an orderly in a health or disability context.
Range
evidence is required for two transfers of a deceased person;
one transfer must demonstrate respect for the deceased person’s culture, and
one transfer must demonstrate respect for the Māori cultural concepts of
whakapapa, whenua, wairua, hinengaro, and tangihanga, in accordance with
the references, the legislation, and the Code.
Evidence requirements
3.1
Procedures for receiving a deceased person from an external agency are
carried out in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures and
any requirements of a coroner or the police.
3.2
Transfer of a deceased person from the place of reception to a mortuary is
carried out in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
3.3
Transfer of a deceased person from the place of reception to a refrigerated unit
is carried out in accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Range
must include – identification of the deceased person, positioning of
a mortuary trolley in a refrigerated unit.
3.4
Documentation is completed in accordance with any requirements of the
coroner, police, references, legislation, or the Code, and the organisation’s
policies and procedures.
3.5
Procedures to finalise transfer of a deceased person are carried out in
accordance with the organisation’s policies and procedures.
Range
cleaning and storing equipment, ensuring the security of premises.
Replacement information
This unit standard was replaced by unit standard 28532.
This unit standard is expiring. Assessment against the standard must take place by
the last date for assessment set out below.
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Status information and last date for assessment for superseded versions
Process
Version Date
Last Date for Assessment
Registration
1
20 May 2011
31 December 2018
Review
2
16 April 2015
31 December 2018
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0024
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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.
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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