Domain - Allied Health Assistance
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Level 3
Allocate and record dental patient's appointments, and maintain dental patient's records
Version 2
27448 Unit Standard 2 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to allocate and record dental patients'' appointments, and maintain dental patients'' records.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Assist with dental radiography
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2 This unit standard was replaced by unit standards 29395 and 29454.
27449 Unit Standard 3 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to: prepare equipment and materials for taking dental radiographs; process dental radiographs; and prepare and maintain equipment and materials for processing dental radiographs.
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Prepare the dental surgery for oral health care procedures and assist with oral health care procedures
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2 This unit standard was replaced by unit standards 29395 and 29454.
27450 Unit Standard 5 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to prepare the dental surgery for oral health care procedures, and assist with oral health care procedures.
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Describe and apply infection prevention and control procedures in dental therapy and general dentistry
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2 This unit standard was replaced by unit standards 29395 and 29454.
27451 Unit Standard 8 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe infection prevention and control procedures; apply infection prevention and control procedures to reduce risk of infection for self and patient(s); minimise contamination, in dental therapy and general dentistry; and apply infection prevention and control procedures to decontaminate instruments, equipment, and clinical surfaces; and sterilise instruments and equipment, used in dental therapy and general dentistry.
Standard-setting body:
Maintain instruments and equipment used in oral health care procedures in dental therapy and general dentistry
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2 This unit standard was replaced by unit standards 29395 and 29454.
27452 Unit Standard 3 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to describe and maintain instruments and equipment used in oral health care procedures in dental therapy and general dentistry, and their handling and care.
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Maintain materials for dental therapy and general dentistry and describe waste material disposal procedures
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2 This unit standard was replaced by unit standards 29395 and 29454.
27453 Unit Standard 3 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe materials used in dental therapy and general dentistry, their storage, preparation and handling; maintain materials and medicaments used in dental therapy and general dentistry; and describe disposal of waste materials from dental therapy and general dentistry.
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Describe tooth notation and anatomy, dental caries, and periodontal disease
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 3 This unit standard was replaced by unit standard 29453
27454 Unit Standard 5 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to describe tooth notation and anatomy, dental caries, and periodontal disease.
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Describe the collection of client information, and collect client information, as a health assistant
This standard has expired and is no longer available.
Version 2
27464 Unit Standard 4 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to describe the rationale for, and methods of, collecting client information, and collect client information as a health assistant.
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Contribute to therapeutic programmes and/or groups in a health or wellbeing setting
Version 4
27465 Unit Standard 5 Credits
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This unit standard is for people providing services in a health or wellbeing setting. People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe therapeutic programmes and therapeutic groups; and contribute to therapeutic programmes and/or therapeutic groups, in a health or wellbeing setting.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Apply safe swallowing strategies in a health or wellbeing setting
Version 3
27468 Unit Standard 5 Credits
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This unit standard is for people providing services in a health or wellbeing setting. People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the anatomy and physiology of dysphagia and its impact on people; describe safe swallowing strategies; and apply safe swallowing strategies, in a health or wellbeing setting.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Use specialised assistive and/or therapeutic equipment with people in a health or wellbeing setting
Version 3
27469 Unit Standard 4 Credits
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This unit standard is for people providing services in a health or wellbeing setting. People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe specialised assistive and/or therapeutic equipment; and use specialised assistive and/or therapeutic equipment with people, in a health or wellbeing setting.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Apply infection prevention and control in dentistry
Version 1 This unit standard and 29454 replaced unit standards 27449, 27450, 27451, 27452 and 27453
29395 Unit Standard 10 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to: maintain instruments and equipment used in oral health care procedures in dental therapy and general dentistry; describe and apply infection prevention and control procedures in dental therapy and general dentistry; and describe disposal of waste materials resulting from dental therapy and general dentistry.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Describe tooth notation and anatomy, dental caries, and periodontal disease, and chart teeth and restorations
Version 1 This unit standard replaced unit standard 27454
29453 Unit Standard 7 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to describe tooth notation and anatomy, dental caries, and periodontal disease; and chart teeth and restorations.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Assist with oral health care procedures
Version 1 This unit standard and unit standard 29395 replaced unit standards 27449, 27450, 27451, 27452 and 27453
29454 Unit Standard 10 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able: to describe and prepare materials, instruments, and equipment used for dental therapy and general dentistry; and prepare for and assist with oral health care procedures.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Level 4
Conduct nutrition screening with, and provide education to, adult clients in an aged care, health, or disability context
Version 4
27455 Unit Standard 6 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe validated nutrition screening tools used in Aotearoa/New Zealand aged care, health, or disability contexts; conduct nutrition screening with adult clients; and provide nutrition education to adult clients and their carer(s), in an aged care, health, or disability context.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Conduct food service quality audits and nutrition intervention audits in an aged care, health, or disability context
Version 3
27456 Unit Standard 8 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to conduct food service quality audits, and conduct therapeutic nutrition interventions, in an aged care, health, or disability context.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Describe the ICF and its impact on a health assistant's role and on meeting the needs of clients
Version 3
27463 Unit Standard 6 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to describe: the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF; the impact of the ICF Model of Functioning and Disability on own role as a health assistant; and the impact of the ICF on meeting the needs of clients.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Apply modalities in physiotherapy as a health assistant
Version 4
27466 Unit Standard 6 Credits
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This unit standard is for people providing services in a health or wellbeing setting. People credited with this unit standard are able to: describe the application of modalities in physiotherapy in a health or wellbeing setting; and apply modalities in physiotherapy as a health assistant.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Apply supported communication strategies in a health or wellbeing setting
Version 3
27467 Unit Standard 5 Credits
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This unit standard is for people providing services in a health or wellbeing setting. People credited with this unit standard are able to describe supported communication, and apply supported communication strategies in a health or wellbeing setting.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Contribute to the preparation and evaluation of reports in a health or wellbeing setting
Version 1
32504 Unit Standard 4 Credits
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People credited with this unit standard are able to, in a health or wellbeing setting: . demonstrate knowledge of a report relevant to own role in a health or wellbeing setting; . contribute to gathering, recording, and communicating information for a report; . evaluate own contribution to a report.
Consent & Moderation Requirements:
CMR 24
Standard-setting body:
Toitu te Waiora Community, Health, Education and Social Services Workforce Development Council
Data as at 26 September 2023