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Title
Instruct clients on emergency oxygen administration for divers
Level
6
Credits
2
Purpose
People credited with this unit standard are able to: instruct
clients on the physical aspects of administering emergency
oxygen and to select, use, and maintain emergency oxygen
and ancillary equipment; and demonstrate emergency oxygen
administration instructor skills.
Classification
Diving > Diving - Instruction
Available grade
Achieved
Entry information
Critical health and
safety prerequisites
Entry is restricted to those in possession of the entry-level
certification as recognised by the New Zealand Underwater
Recreational Training Council (NZURTC) or equivalent, as
determined by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry
Training Organisation.
Explanatory notes
1
2
This unit standard is
All workplace diving practice must
comply with the requirements of the Health and
expiring
Safety in Employment Act 1992 and Health and Safety in Employment Regulations
Industry technical and safety criteria are specified in the training manuals of the
agencies approved by the Sport Fitness and Recreation Industry Training
Organisation (Sfrito).
1995. All practice must also comply with Injury Prevention, Rehabilitation, and
Compensation Act 2001 and the Occupational Safety and Health guidelines for
Occupational Diving.
3
All training providers assessing against any instruction diving unit standard must
ensure that the training is conducted by a qualified instructor currently registered with
one of the listed agencies: National Association of Underwater Instructors (NAUI),
Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI), Scuba Schools International
(SSI), Confédération Mondiale des Activitiés Subaquatiques (CMAS), International
Diving Educators Association (IDEA), or an equivalent, determined by Sfrito, that
meets the requirements of the Recreational Scuba Training Council (RSTC), the
candidate’s instructor must provide training in accordance with the standards and
procedures of the respective training agency.
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Outcomes and evidence requirements
Outcome 1
Instruct clients on the physical aspects of administering emergency oxygen.
Evidence requirements
1.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients identify the physiological
effects of breathing elevated levels of oxygen.
Range
1.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients identify physical benefits
of supplemental oxygen in the treatment of casualties.
Range
1.3
circulation, respiration and respiratory triggers, oxygen toxicity,
increased proportions of oxygen, pressure and depth,
management of shock.
reduce effects of shock and trauma, reduce uptake of nitrogen,
assist nitrogen elimination.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients identify the importance of
patient positioning during emergency oxygen administration and transport.
Outcome 2
Instruct clients to select, use, and maintain emergency oxygen and ancillary equipment.
Evidence requirements
2.1
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection of emergency
oxygen equipment matches industry technical and safety criteria.
2.2
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ use of emergency
oxygen equipment meets industry technical and safety criteria.
2.3
This unit standard is
expiring
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients demonstrate knowledge
of hazards relating to emergency oxygen administration.
Range
2.4
equipment, lubricants, contaminants, toxic effects of pure oxygen.
Instruction includes assessment to ensure that clients’ selection and
maintenance of emergency oxygen and ancillary equipment take account of
hostile or corrosive environments.
Range
equipment includes but is not limited to – carrying case materials,
hinges, catches, clips, alloy components, valves gauges,
regulators, cylinders.
Outcome 3
Demonstrate emergency oxygen administration instructor skills.
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Evidence requirements
3.1
Demonstration ensures that theory and practice are integrated using relevant
demonstration techniques.
can include but is not limited to – talk through issues, role play,
practical exercises, scenarios.
Range
3.2
Development of client assessment criteria meets industry technical and safety
criteria.
Replacement information
This unit standard has been replaced by unit standard
28434.
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
23 September 1996
31 December 2016
Revision
2
17 July 2001
31 December 2016
Review
3
26 July 2005
31 December 2016
Review
4
20 November 2014
31 December 2016
This unit standard is
Please note
Providers must be granted consentexpiring
to assess against standards (accredited) by NZQA,
before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses
Consent and Moderation Requirements (CMR) reference
0099
This CMR can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
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.
Skills Active Aotearoa Limited
SSB Code 101576
 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2016