Assessor Resource

HLTAHCS002
Assist with health assessments

Assessment tool

Version 1.0
Issue Date: May 2024


You may want to include more information here about the target group and the purpose of the assessments (eg formative, summative, recognition)

Submission Requirements

List each assessment task's title, type (eg project, observation/demonstration, essay, assingnment, checklist) and due date here

Assessment task 1: [title]      Due date:

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Assessment Tasks

Copy and paste from the following data to produce each assessment task. Write these in plain English and spell out how, when and where the task is to be carried out, under what conditions, and what resources are needed. Include guidelines about how well the candidate has to perform a task for it to be judged satisfactory.
Copy and paste from the following performance criteria to create an observation checklist for each task. When you have finished writing your assessment tool every one of these must have been addressed, preferably several times in a variety of contexts. To ensure this occurs download the assessment matrix for the unit; enter each assessment task as a column header and place check marks against each performance criteria that task addresses.

Observation Checklist

Tasks to be observed according to workplace/college/TAFE policy and procedures, relevant legislation and Codes of Practice Yes No Comments/feedback
Confirm with practitioner own role in health assessment and in collecting client information. 
Communicate consistently in culturally appropriate and safe ways with client and/or significant others. 
Assist practitioner to obtain client medical and social history and information about specific presenting problems using effective plain language questions. 
Facilitate questions and answers between client and practitioner and confirm client understanding. 
Assist with explanations about organisational requirements for maintaining confidentiality of information and permissions for disclosure. 
Extract and convey essential information, where language barriers exist between client and practitioner. 
Discuss and clarify mutual understanding of client information and assist practitioner to document client history. 
Facilitate culturally safe and effective communications between practitioner and client throughout all examinations and tests. 
Ensure client understands reasons and procedures for each examination and test, confirm informed consent and explain what this means. 
Implement required infection control precautions according to examination and test requirements. 
Work under instruction to assist with equipment, physical examinations, tests and records. 
Participate in culturally safe, empathetic client discussions to assist with social and emotional wellbeing assessments. 
Encourage client to express any difficulties with health assessments and tests that relate to community values, beliefs and gender roles. 
Discuss and confirm with practitioner health assessment results, recommended medical and other interventions. 
Interpret and clarify, with practitioner, health terminology relevant to assessment outcomes and provide plain language explanations to client. 
Deliver clear and accurate information in culturally safe ways to support client and/or significant others understanding of assessment outcomes and proposed actions. 
Discuss need for a health care plan, how they are developed and what they comprise. 
Encourage client and/or significant others to question and clarify outcomes, and purpose of proposed treatments and interventions. 
Confirm client understanding and assist practitioner to document information provided. 

Forms

Assessment Cover Sheet

HLTAHCS002 - Assist with health assessments
Assessment task 1: [title]

Student name:

Student ID:

I declare that the assessment tasks submitted for this unit are my own work.

Student signature:

Result: Competent Not yet competent

Feedback to student

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assessor name:

Signature:

Date:


Assessment Record Sheet

HLTAHCS002 - Assist with health assessments

Student name:

Student ID:

Assessment task 1: [title] Result: Competent Not yet competent

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Feedback to student:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Overall assessment result: Competent Not yet competent

Assessor name:

Signature:

Date:

Student signature:

Date: