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Assessment Guide 5
CHC43015 Certificate IV in
Assessor
Ageing Support
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Assessment Requirements
The assessment requirements specify the evidence and required conditions for assessment.
Each unit of competency can be unbundled to reveal three (3) key assessment components:
1. Performance Evidence
- describes the subtasks that make up the element of the unit
2. Knowledge Evidence
- describes the knowledge that must be applied to understanding the tasks described
in the elements
3. Assessment Condition
- describes the environment and conditions that assessments must be conducted
under
CHCPAL001
Assessment Activities
Knowledge Assessment
Case Study
Assessment Methods
This workbook uses the following assessment methods:
1. Knowledge Assessment – A set of generic and workplace questions testing the
student’s general knowledge and understanding of the general theory behind the unit.
2. Case Study – Detailed scenarios and simulated environments providing all necessary
information required to complete relevant tasks and activities.
The questions under Knowledge Assessment are all in a short answer format. The
longer questions requiring creative and analytical thought processes are covered in
the Practical Assessment. You must answer all questions using your own
words. However, you may reference your learner guide and other relevant
resources and learning materials to complete this assessment.
Some questions cover processes you would likely encounter in a workplace. Ideally,
you should be able to answer these questions based on the processes that are
currently in place in your workplace. However, if you do not currently have
access to a workplace, then answer the questions based on processes that should
be implemented in a typical workplace setting.
KNOWLEDGE ASSESSMENT
2. List three (3) strategies used to promote pain relief and comfort in palliative care.
a. Regular observation
b. Reporting and documenting client's comfort
c. Providing pain relieving measures by appropriate staff members
These case studies are hypothetical situations which will not require you to have access to a
workplace, although your past and present workplace experiences may help with the
responses you provide. You will be expected to encounter similar situations to these in future
as you work in the residential care and home and community care settings.
In real life, aged care workers in both the residential care and home and community care
settings will be required to deliver services using a palliative care approach, encountering
problems and issues along the way. This assessment will let you demonstrate your problem
solving skills in such situations.
For this part of the assessment, you will be taking the role of aged care worker at the
Residential Care of Lotus Compassionate Care.
You can find out more about Lotus Compassionate Care by visiting their website:
As per your role as an aged care worker, you also provide palliative care support in directly
report to Rachel Allcot, the Manager at Residential Care.
Palliative care specialises in improving the quality of life of the client with a life-threatening
and incurable illness. Your role in providing palliative care support includes aiming to
prevent and relieve the suffering of the client from the symptoms brought about by the illness
by providing medication and the care and support considering their needs, values, and
preferences. Aside from the client, you will also be supporting their family, carers, and
friends
This assessment contains several tasks that you need to complete based on the given
scenarios. You are required to complete ALL tasks included in this case study.
You will also need to access and review the following documents found in the Assessment
Files folder in your Student Portal, as reference:
Lotus Compassionate Care Handbook (Lotus-Compassionate-Care-Handbook-
v1.1.pdf)
Lotus Compassionate Care Organisational Chart (Lotus-Organisation-Chart.pdf)
He lived alone, but due to his deteriorating health and increasing symptom distress, he could
no longer take care of himself. He had already been advised that his prognosis is short and
has decided to enter himself at Lotus Compassionate Care.
It depresses him so that he misses his wife very much. He wished Catherine was there to keep
him company and to comfort him in his darkest moments. To worsen things, he has not
spoken to John in a long time because of disagreements from the past. Marcus, on the other
hand, together with his family, visits Mr. Diggle whenever they can. It pleases James so
much to see his grand kids. He wishes to reconcile with John and sincerely hopes to see his
entire family before he dies.
Mr. Diggle is often seen alone on the porch, reading a book. He does not mingle that much
with the other residents. He also used to be an active member in church, but his cancer had
led him to feel hopeless and he cannot help it but lose faith in God.
In his first week, Mr. Diggle is lively and alert and he walks with the help of a walking aid. He
needs assistance for some of his activities for daily living (ADLs) including walking up the
stairs and showering. He tires easily and encounters difficulty in breathing.
He has complained about this persistent pain he has been feeling, which is worsening over
time. The pain medication he is on is only helping a little. Aside from this his appetite is
poor and could not sleep because of the pain. Changes to Mr. Diggle’s Care Plan will be
made to help him address these symptoms.
By the second week, Mr. Diggle’s symptoms have improved. However, his fatigue has not
improved and only worsened. Now he spends more time in bed. Due to the progression of
his disease, he has started to become confused and disoriented at times.
In his third week, Mr. Diggle becomes less responsive. He cannot eat food or take oral
medication anymore. He is restless at times and he is now bedridden. He has noisy
respiratory secretions.
1. Following Mr. Diggle’s case, identify his holistic needs by completing the table
below.
2. Which aspects of Mr. Diggle’s case are outside the responsibility of your role as an
individual support worker and will need the assistance of others?
a. Assisting him with some of his activities for daily living (ADLs)
b. Administering pain medication.
c. Assisting him in meeting his hydration and nutrition needs.
d. Providing emotional support.
e. Facilitating therapy to address his depression.
Write a report (50 – 150 words) to Rachel Alcott, your supervisor. In your report,
advise Rachel about Mr. Diggle’s changing needs which will be included in his new
care plan.
Your report must include at least three (3) of Mr. Diggle’s changing needs.
We required to view the case and discuss the care aims for present medical situations,
locating that the presence of common points which affects these care aims and changing
requirement of Mr. Diggle concluding: new condition diagnosis or previous condition
deterrioration, treatment burden that begains to outweigh merits, increase in suffering,
distress, and dependency, and decrease in performance.
In response to this, you overheard Isabelle, your co-worker, saying: “Are they even
sure about increasing Mr. Diggle’s dosage? He might become addicted!”
Agatha, another co-worker of yours, agreed, saying: “I think it was only Mr. Diggle
who decided to increase his pain medication dosage. I think they should just leave it
all to the doctor to decide what’s best for him.”
a. the aim of this report is clear the Agatha and isabelle's misconceptions. i heard that
pain of Mr. Diggle relieving medication dosages. As it is fact that Mr. Diggle is
provided with medication in more dosage because of his increasing pain in
unbeareable way. than we consulted with the doctor and the doctor prescribed all
the medicines with its dosages. hence, the dosages are provided to Mr. Diggle with
doctor consultation.
“I think it was only Mr. Diggle who decided to increase his pain medication dosage. I
think they should just leave it all to the doctor to decide what’s best for him.”
Your response: No, Mr. Diggle is not only one to decide to increase his pain medication
dosage. the care workers who are taking care of Mr. Diggle support him to increase
his pain medicaion dosage since he came to the center. We should belive the
prescribed dosage of doctor for him.
Marcus approaches you about his concern on this. He said that even though his
father refuses to take in any food, it is still wrong to not try feed him. He added that
his father still needs food, otherwise he will starve.
Mr. Diggle previously instructed in his advance care directive, that when the time
comes that he cannot eat or take in any fluid or medication orally; he should not
want to be fed anymore, instead, he would just like to be provided with mouth care,
as per his care plan, and keeping him pain free and comfortable as much as
possible.
a. When we talked with Marcus (Mr. Diggle son) regarding Mr. Diggle taking any
food. As Marcus is son of Mr. Diggle, he would be worried regarding his father
condition as he is not having food. Mr. Diggle son is right regarding his father
condition that his father could starve if he do not eat for long time. Concern of his
son should be addressed so that we could assist our old age resident at the
condition.
Palliative care specialises in improving the quality of life of the client with a life-threatening
and incurable illness. For this roleplay, your role in providing palliative care support
includes supporting the client’s family.
SCENARIO
In his third week, Mr. Diggle becomes less responsive. He cannot eat food or take oral
medication anymore. He is restless at times, and he is now bedridden. He has noisy
respiratory secretions.
Mr. Diggle’s death is imminent. Marcus, fully aware of this, has requested that his father be
taken home, if this is possible. However, Mr. Diggle refuses to be taken anywhere
anymore as moving will only cause him pain and discomfort. Mr. Diggle does not have
much time to live.
You are to roleplay this scenario. In this roleplay activity, you will be play the role of the Mr.
Diggle’s carer at Lotus Compassionate Care, and you will need the help of at least three
Steps to Take:
1. Access the character briefs for this activity (CHC43015-Subject 6-Task 2
Roleplaying Activity). You can access this file in the Assessment Files folder in
your Student Portal.
There is no specific script to be followed for this roleplaying activity, but your
volunteers must follow the requirements of their roles as specified in the character
briefs.
3. Meet with your volunteers. Review the task instructions, scenario, character briefs,
and Video Submission Checklist requirements with them before proceeding to the
roleplay.
6. Save and submit this video recording using the following filename along with the
complete workbook:
[Surname, First Name] Mr. Diggle – Roleplay 1
YE COMMENTS
In the video submission, did the student: NO
S
1. Inform John Diggle and Marcus Diggle that Mr. James
Diggle has an advance care directive?
Guidance: The student must inform John and Marcus
Diggle that their father filed an advance care directive.
2. Use active listening while interacting with Mr. Diggle’s
family?
Guidance: The behaviours indicative of active listening
include but are not limited to:
Maintaining eye contact with speakers
Leaning slightly toward the direction of the
speaker
Nodding their head while the speaker is talking
Refraining from being distracted (e.g. fidgeting,
looking at their watch, picking their fingernails,
etc.)
Verbal positive reinforcements (e.g. ‘yes’,
‘indeed’, ‘I understand’, etc.)
Asking clarification questions
3. Provide emotional support to Mr. Diggle’s family?
Guidance: Behaviours illustrating emotional support
include but are not limited to:
Actively listening to the family’s concerns
Asking the family for their opinions
Answering any questions that the family might
have
4. Work within the role of the individual support/aged
care worker?
Palliative care specialises in improving the quality of life of the client with a life-
threatening and incurable illness. For this roleplay, your role in providing palliative care
support includes supporting the client and his family, as well as working with other
stakeholders in carrying out the advanced care of the client.
SCENARIO
Mr. Diggle’s death is imminent. John and Marcus have been called to the centre as
requested. Fr. Robert, a priest, has also been called. You and your supervisor accompany
them in Mr. Diggle’s room.
You are to roleplay this scenario. In this roleplay activity, you will be playing the role of
Mr. Diggle’s carer at Lotus Compassionate Care, and you will need the help of six (6)
volunteers (they can be your colleagues, family, or friends) to play the roles of:
Rachel Allcot, your supervisor at Lotus Compassionate Care
Mr. James Diggle
Mr. John Diggle
Mr. Marcus Diggle
Fr. Robert Sacks, a priest
Dr. Oliver Atwood, a medical doctor for Lotus Compassionate Care
3. Meet with your volunteers. Review the task instructions, scenario, character briefs,
and Video Submission Checklist requirements with them before proceeding to the
roleplay.
5. Document your roleplaying activity through a video recording. Your video recording
must not be longer than 30 minutes.
6. Save and submit this video recording using the following filename along with the
complete workbook:
[Surname, First Name] Mr. Diggle – Roleplay 2
YE COMMENTS
In the video submission, did the student: NO
S
Please take note that once you have submitted the assignment for grading, you can no
longer submit another assignment for the same subject until it has been marked by an
Assessor.
There are several ways to upload different types of files (video, folders, documents, etc).
Read and follow the instructions in the Submitting An Assessment document.
When you have completed all of the parts above. Then you are ready to submit this
completed workbook along with the following file(s):
Video Recording of Roleplay Activity 1
Video Recording of Roleplay Activity 2
IMPORTANT REMINDER
Students must achieve a satisfactory result to ALL assessment tasks to be awarded
COMPETENT for the unit relevant to this subject.
To award the student competent in the units relevant to this subject, the student must
successfully complete all the requirements listed above according to the prescribed
benchmarks.
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