HLT37215 Identify Clinical Risks Pathology Collection

The following assessments have been designed to ensure you are able to competently demonstrate your knowledge and skills for each of the elements and performance criteria as well as the required knowledge and skills for this unit.

Successful completion of this unit will enable you to competently competently apply the skills and knowledge required to recognise client risk factors, identify emergency situations and provide emergency or first aid response to client reactions associated with pathology specimen collection. This includes the ability to:

1. Recognise and assess potential risk.
2. Identify situations requiring emergency or first aid response.
3. Respond to client reactions and complications.

The following pages contain the assessment tasks that will provide you with information and instructions to complete each of the assessments.

You will be provided with a due date for each of the assessment tasks and where required you will submit your Assessment Tool cover sheet with your assessment.

You are not required to submit an Assessment Tool cover sheet for your Poster / Pamphlet Presentation as you will log on to Moodle to complete this assessment or the Practical Placement Program Logbook as this will be submitted following completion of your Clinical Placement.

Each assessment task will be marked as satisfactory or not yet satisfactory and your Assessor will provide you with relevant feedback regarding your assessment. If you are not yet satisfactory, you will be provided with an opportunity to resubmit and a new due date. Final Assessment – To be assessed as competent for this unit, you must demonstrate a satisfactory result in all assessment activities. Your assessor will record your final assessment results on the Summary of Assessment tool.

Before commencing the assessment tasks, it is recommended that you have read through all of the learning materials provided to you for this unit.

Instructions for Candidates

• The purpose of this assessment is to determine your knowledge regarding clinical risks in pathology collection. You will be able to answer the questions based on the information you have obtained in your classroom activities.
• This is an individual assessment task.
• Candidates must undertake all specified tasks and answer all questions.
• The final outcome of your assessment will be recorded on the Summary of Assessment Tool for this unit

Candidates are required to answer the following questions.

1. Define ‘Clinical Risk’ in respect to your job role as a Phlebotomist
2. What would you describe as some possible clinical risks in a healthcare setting?
3. Why is it important to have a basic understanding of anatomy and heart function (including blood flow)?
4. Do you believe it is important for Phlebotomists to have a current First Aid Certificate and why?
5. Summarise the key points for selecting a phlebotomy site.
6. Discuss the factors that may directly reduce the risk of a client experiencing an adverse reaction / event
7. Why would you refer potential risk situations beyond the scope of your own role to the appropriate person? What are some examples?
8. Discuss how as Phlebotomists we reduce our risk at work (i.e. sustaining a sharps injury, infection risk etc.)
9. Describe the term ‘Duty of Care’ and how you will implement this in your daily work.
10. What are some important questions you would ask your client / patient prior to performing any collection task that would reduce the risk of any adverse effects?
11. Describe Informed Consent and the importance of it
12. A client is having a glucose tolerance test. Following the fasting collection you give them the glucose drink. Thirty minutes after they finish the glucose drink they tell you they have vomited. What do you do?
13. You have scratched your finger with a used needle. What should you do immediately? What should you do as soon as possible?
14. How can we as healthcare workers assess the potential of risk for our clients? What information do we obtain that assists us in determining the level of risk?

Instructions for Candidates

• The purpose of this assessment is to determine your knowledge regarding clinical risks in pathology collection. You will be able to answer the questions based on the information you have obtained in your classroom activities.
• This is an individual assessment task.
• Candidates must undertake all specified tasks and answer all questions.
• The final outcome of your assessment will be recorded on the Summary of Assessment Tool for this unit

Task

You are a specimen collector about to collect a sample from a client who tells you they are taking the medication Warfarin (an anticoagulant) that thins the blood and makes people more prone to bruising. As you take the client’s blood a swelling appears at the needle site.You put a band aid on and send the patient home. The next week you are called to see the manager as the patient has asked for the organisation to pay for their physiotherapy treatment to resolve the haematoma to their arm which caused them considerable pain.

They were unable to work for three days.

What should you have done at the time of collection?

What documentation should you have completed?

What are the risks of collecting blood on a patient who is currently being treated with an anticoagulant? Is it important to ask your patient’s this prior to obtaining a blood sample from them? How can we reduce the risk of a Haematoma occurring?

Required Document and equipment

Please note that one (1) Industry Placement Logbook needs to be completed by each candidate. This will apply to a range of skills across all Units of Competency that make up the Certificate III in Pathology Collection HLT37215 qualification at EQUALS. Instructions for Candidates

• A candidate will not be approved to commence Professional Placement until such time as the candidate has demonstrated (through training and assessment, assessment only, or RPL pathways), satisfactory outcomes to date, against required assessments for the qualification
• Candidates will be required to have the Professional Placement Program Logbook with them at each shift and ensure they are achieving the relevant skills/activities.
• A workplace supervisor/assessor will be required to observe that the candidate is achieving the relevant skills/activities to the consistency and standard required.
• During facilitation visits, Educators and/or Assessors will check the progress of the candidate against the required activities and indicators in the Industry Placement Logbook, and take reasonable steps to ensure progress toward completion. This may include talking with the candidate and/or his/her supervisor/mentor to ascertain the reasons for any slow progress, and to provide support and encouragement to assist progress.
• Outcome of Industry Placement will be recorded on the Summary of Assessment Tool for this unit.