Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare treatment environment and equipment.
- Access and review agreed client treatment program to determine requirements for individual treatment.
- Check that treatment environment is correctly organised and free from safety risks and hazards.
- Confirm completion of risk assessment and equipment checks and take any required corrective action.
- Set up equipment and check to ensure correct functioning as per manufacturer instructions and safe practice protocols.
- Cleanse and prepare treatment area and sanitise equipment prior to use on client.
- Complete required workplace and pre-treatment documentation required for treatment environment and equipment preparation.
- Prepare self and client.
- Identify need for and receive signed medical approval to proceed with treatment from client.
- Confirm treatment program with client.
- Determine, through discussion and questioning, changes to client medical history and contraindications arising since time of treatment program development.
- Adjust treatment program to reflect identified changes and obtain signed client consent for adjusted treatment program.
- Explain treatment process to client and likely sensations to client to ensure client comfort.
- Identify jewellery worn by self and client and remove, or where not removable, tape according to workplace procedures.
- Fit and adjust personal protective equipment, including eye protection, to self, client and others who may be present during treatment.
- Provide intense pulsed light treatment.
- Follow workplace policies and procedures, non-ionising radiation safety plan and legislative requirements to apply intense pulsed light according to treatment program.
- Identify requirement for coupling gel and apply ensuring minimum wastage.
- Perform a test shot on treatment area, observe immediate skin reaction and level of client discomfort, and adjust equipment settings in preparation for treatment.
- Commence treatment on areas of least pain sensitivity.
- Work sequentially on treatment area, avoiding repeat treatment on area immediately after first shot.
- Monitor client reaction to treatment and pain tolerance continuously and adjust equipment settings to minimise client discomfort.
- Identify potential and actual hazards and assess risks throughout treatment and take action to minimise risk to self and client.
- Identify and respond immediately to adverse reactions by stopping treatment and explaining reason for stoppage to client.
- Identify need for and take and store photographs of hair reduction treatment area according to workplace policies and procedures.
- Turn off equipment and remove coupling gel at completion of treatment.
- Provide post-treatment care and advice.
- Select and apply post-treatment skin cooling products according to treatment plan and client reaction to treatment.
- Advise client on post-treatment and self-care and ask questions to confirm client understanding.
- Advise client on client care and precautionary requirements for period leading up to next treatment
- Record treatment and adjust treatment plan to reflect treatment and outcomes.
- Complete post treatment documentation according to workplace procedures.
- Initiate follow-up to check for post-treatment complications and adverse effects according to workplace procedures.