Elements and Performance Criteria
- Promote a healthy lifestyle
- Provide information to clients on the benefits of a healthy lifestyle
- Empower clients to access information and advice from appropriate services before making lifestyle changes
- Assists clients to understand the health care environment and the processes for admission, care and discharge
- Encourage and support clients to exercise their rights and personal preferences without compromising their safety and the safety of others
- Identify and describe current disease prevention activities relevant to identified clients
- Promote positive lifestyle choices
- Discuss factors influencing lifestyle choices with the client and/or their family or significant other
- Discuss the consequences of lifestyle choices with the client and/or their family or significant other
- Convey non-judgemental attitudes when discussing lifestyle choices and options
- Consider age and gender when promoting lifestyle choices
- Provide clients with clear information relevant to promoting and maintaining their health
- Encourage clients to maintain healthy lifestyles
- Assist clients, and/or their family or significant other with strategies to monitor changes to lifestyle
- Record and report changes in client's physical, psychological and social needs
- Reflect age and gender considerations in health teaching
- Identify and explain any relevant health care services, resources or products for client use eg.equipment to assist activities of daily living
- Apply the principles of health promotion and education
- Apply principles and strategies of health promotion to address specific client needs
- Provide advice within level of role and responsibility in addition to legislative and professional requirements
- Consult with the client their health promotion and education needs and document in care plan and report to appropriate health professional
- Develop health promotion activities and documents that reflect age, gender and health and/or illness factors
- Participate in the implementation of health promotion and health education activities
- Evaluate effectiveness of health promotion and health education activities
- Contribute to health teaching
- Discuss the need for client or group health teaching with the registered nurse or other heath care professional
- Utilise guiding principles in teaching and learning that underpin all health teaching plans
- Select teaching strategies that are appropriate to the health care environment
- Incorporate the principles of health teaching into every client contact
- Reflect on the learning outcomes of the planned teaching session in relation to changes in client behaviour, actions and level of understanding
- Discuss client responses or outcomes of health teaching sessions with the client, their family, registered nurse or other health care professional as appropriate