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Investigate the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community
Level
3
Credits
4
Purpose
This unit standard is for people who want to operate effectively as a cardiac
club leader at a phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation club within a community.
People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain the services
provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of cardiac rehabilitation; evaluate
the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community; define the target
market for a new cardiac club in a local community and describe what the
club will offer to that community.
Subfield
Fitness
Domain
Fitness Education
Status
Registered
Status date
14 December 2007
Date version published
14 December 2007
Planned review date
31 December 2012
Entry information
Recommended: Unit 23842, Demonstrate knowledge of
cardiac rehabilitation fundamentals.
Accreditation
Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB)
Sport, Fitness and Recreation Industry Training
Organisation Limited
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference
0069
This AMAP can be accessed at http://www.nzqa.govt.nz/framework/search/index.do.
Special notes
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A local community is a community defined by the geographic and demographic
boundaries that influence it’s behavioural norms. For example, a community within a
given suburb in a metropolitan area whose elderly members typically complete most
of their activities within their suburb or a neighbouring suburb.
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There are three phases to cardiac rehabilitation. Phase 1 involves inpatient care
within a hospital after a person has suffered a cardiac event, phase 2 involves
outpatient care after discharge from hospital and phase 3 is a community oriented
programme. Although encouraged to do so, heart event patients may not progress
from one phase to the next.
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Community oriented programmes usually occur in fitness clubs, community centres,
community halls and church facilities. The focus of these programmes is the
rehabilitation and prevention of cardiac disease in the community. Phase 3 cardiac
clubs achieve this aim through the delivery of programmes that focus on providing
exercise, education and emotional support to its members.
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A cardiac club leader is typically a person with specialist skills and/or knowledge in
the fitness or health sectors, such as a fitness instructor or nurse, or those with first
hand experience of cardiac disease. A cardiac club leader is expected to have the
time and energy required to set up a club, plan its activities, seek support for the
club, enthuse new and existing members, review the club’s activities and follow
through on the club’s start-up plan.
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Competence in this unit standard may require the National Heart Foundation’s ‘Club
Leadership Training Manual’ and assistance from the National Heart Foundation. PO
Box 17160, Greenlane, Auckland, info@nhf.org.nz, (09) 571-9191.
Elements and performance criteria
Element 1
Explain the cardiac rehabilitation services provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of
cardiac rehabilitation.
Performance criteria
1.1
The services provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of cardiac rehabilitation
are explained using examples.
Range
must include at least two examples of services for each of the
following outcomes – education, exercise and emotional support.
Element 2
Evaluate the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community.
Performance criteria
2.1
The characteristics of the local community are described in terms of the need
for phase three cardiac rehabilitation services.
Range
must include but is not limited to-gender, age, ethnicity, income.
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2.2
The cardiac rehabilitation services currently available in the local community
and their characteristics are explained in terms of their suitability for the local
community.
Range
must include but is not limited to-phase 1, 2 and any existing
phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programmes available to the local
community;
characteristics must include but are not limited to – accessibility,
quality, quantity, type.
Element 3
Define the target market for a new phase 3 cardiac club in a local community and describe
what the club will offer to that community.
Performance criteria
3.1
A proposed cardiac club’s target market is defined in terms of demographics,
psychographics and geography.
3.2
The cardiac rehabilitation services the proposed phase 3 cardiac club will offer
to the local community are described.
Range
must include how the services will provide education, exercise and
emotional support.
may include but not limited to – facilitating social gatherings,
organising guest speakers, providing personal follow-up and
support, exercise type, frequency, intensity and duration, nutrition
and weight management information.
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 Sport, Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation Limited
info@sfrito.org.nz if you wish to suggest changes to the content of this unit standard.
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