Competency information

Details

Minimise risks and hazards in compliance with health and safety policies.

Considerations

  • The relevant health and safety regulations specific to cardiac science investigations, the potential hazards and risks, and the actions to be taken to minimise these.

Relevant learning outcomes

# Outcome
# 1 Outcome Plan and perform a resting ECG in a range of patients in a variety of clinical settings, to current nationally accepted standards.
# 3 Outcome Set up a patient for cardiac monitoring.
# 4 Outcome Plan and perform BP measurement on a range of patients, using manual and automatic methods.
# 5 Outcome Fit ambulatory ECG equipment, including patient instruction.
# 7 Outcome Fit ambulatory BP equipment, including patient instruction, and produce the results in the appropriate format.