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Level 3
Credits 3
Purpose This unit standard is intended for people involved in, or planning to become involved in, community field work. Community field workers provide education, support, information, and advocacy in a health or disability setting in a consumer’s own home, a residential facility, and the community.
Community field workers work with a high degree of autonomy and are responsible for making independent decisions in remote situations.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: define arachnoiditis and chronic back pain; describe possible causes of arachnoiditis and chronic back pain; describe conditions frequently associated with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain; and describe support needs required for a person with arachnoiditis and a person with chronic back pain.
Subfield Community Support
Domain
Status
Status date
Date version published
Community Field Work
Registered
20 May 2008
20 May 2008
Planned review date
Entry information
31 December 2013
Open.
Accreditation Evaluation of documentation and visit by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) Community Support Services Industry Training
Organisation Limited
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference 0024
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do
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Special notes
The primary references for this unit standard include but are not limited to: Aldrete, J A,
Arachnoiditis: The Silent Epidemic (Denver, CO: Future Medical Publishers, 2000);
Aronoff, G. M, Evaluation and Treatment of Chronic Pain (Maryland, USA: Williams and
Wilkins, Third Edition, 1999).
Element 1
Define arachnoiditis and chronic back pain.
Performance criteria
1.1 Arachnoiditis and chronic back pain are defined in accordance with the primary references.
Range spinal injury or trauma, invasive spinal procedures, failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS).
Element 2
Describe possible causes of arachnoiditis and chronic back pain and their effects.
Performance criteria
2.1 Two possible causes of arachnoiditis are described in terms of their effects in accordance with the primary references.
Range any two effects.
2.2 Two possible causes of chronic back pain are described in terms of their effects in accordance with the primary references.
Element 3
Range any two effects.
Describe conditions frequently associated with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain.
Range any three conditions may be selected from, but are not limited to, the following – syringomyelia; arachnoid cysts; FBSS; cauda equina syndrome; central, chronic and neuropathic pain; restless leg syndrome; sciatica; spasticity.
Performance criteria
3.1 Each condition associated with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain is defined in terms of its cause and in accordance with the primary references.
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3.2 Each condition associated with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain described in terms of at least two defining characteristics and in accordance with the primary references.
Element 4
Describe the support needs of a person with arachnoiditis and a person with chronic back pain.
Performance criteria
4.1 The support needs of a person with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain are described in accordance with the primary references.
4.2 The support needs of a person with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain are described in terms of their condition and requirements.
Range physical, social.
4.3 The support needs of a person with arachnoiditis and chronic back pain are described in terms of resource accessibility and availability in the community.
Please note
Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.
Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.
Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.
Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The
AMAP 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 Community Support Services Industry Training Organisation Limited enquiries@cssito.org.nz
if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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