Competency information
Details
Treat patients in a way that respects their dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality.
Considerations
- The rights of the patient with regard to consent for treatment and confidentiality of consultation and medical records.
- Key factors influencing dignity, rights, privacy and confidentiality, including age, gender, culture and beliefs.
- Correct positioning of the patient to ensure comfort, co-operation and optimal investigation results.
- The impact of incorrect positioning or non-co-operation on investigation results.
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. |