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Deliver primary health care to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients in confinement

Deliver primary health care to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients in confinement

Unit of competency
National Code
HLTAHW511B
State Code
D5701
TGA Status
Replaced
DTWD Status
Replaced
Current Release Number
1.00
Current Release Date
25/03/2011
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State Implementation and Classification
Approved Date
25/07/2011
Field of Education
061305 - Indigenous Health
Original Release Date
25/07/2011
Nominal Hours
40
Description
This unit describes the skills and knowledge required for an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander worker to perform effectively in delivery of primary health care services to clients in the confinement of a prison or corrective services environment
Notes
Elements and Performance Criteria
1. Clarify the prison structure and culture
  • 1.1 Identify prison management structures, hierarchies and dynamics and clarify the potential impact of these in relation to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander inmates and health workers
  • 1.2 Clarify prison policies and procedures to identify potential for providing primary health care services to inmates
  • 1.3 Identify factors that may impact the provision of culturally safe care within the prison in relation to their potential to enhance and/or impede care
  • 1.4 Evaluate prison environment in relation to physical, cultural and emotional safety issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander inmates and workers
  • 1.5 Identify boundaries and constraints relating to own work role in the prison environment
2. Apply strategies to enhance personal resilience in a prison environment
  • 2.1 Anticipate the impact of immersion in a foreign and potentially hostile cultural environment
  • 2.2 Identify self-protective behaviour strategies and seek mentors for advice and support
  • 2.3 Use colleagues with the capacity to provide personal support for reflection, debriefing, solidarity and advocacy as appropriate
  • 2.4 Access community and family support where appropriate
3. Clarify own professional role and scope of practice
  • 3.1 Clarify overlapping and complementary roles of workers in the prison environment
  • 3.2 Identify level of awareness of the Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander worker's role, knowledge and skills among other workers
  • 3.3 Clarify potential for own role to enhance client care in the prison environment
  • 3.4 Professionally assert scope of practice appropriate to own role and skills with prison staff
4. Advocate for clients effectively from within prison
  • 4.1 Clarify inmate needs for health care and support as appropriate to worker's role
  • 4.2 Recognise potential impacts of providing client advocacy from inside the prison
  • 4.3 Employ strategies to effectively manage conflict or resentment arising from client advocacy activities
  • 4.4 Clarify rights and responsibilities of inmates and assert as required
  • 4.5 Support inmates in relation to parole and release issues as required in line with own work role and jurisdictional guidelines.
  • 4.6 Organise and/or provide post release support as appropriate
5. Support inmates to make informed health choices
  • 5.1 Use accurate information about the inmate's health and potential care as a basis for informing clients about available options
  • 5.2 Empower clients to make informed choices on health care by explaining potential consequences of available options
  • 5.3 Support clients through the continuum of care in line with own work role
6. Contribute to enhancing awareness of cultural safety issues
  • 6.1 Raise cultural safety issues in the prison environment with staff in relation to health issues for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander clients
  • 6.2 Build own tolerance and mutual respect of colleagues by seeking to understand reasons for any insensitivity or culturally unsafe practices
  • 6.3 Reinforce colleagues' application of cultural safety practices in the workplace by public and/or personal recognition
  • 6.4 Provide leadership in the implementation of culturally safe principles and practice
7. Promote change to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
  • 7.1 Offer to contribute to development and/or refinement of prison policies on cultural safety
  • 7.2 Identify change agents who may facilitate and/or champion needed change
  • 7.3 Identify potential blockages to change
  • 7.4 Mobilise available support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
  • 7.5 Enlist community support to enhance cultural safety in the prison environment
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