Certificate IV

							                Certificate IV

• Aboriginal Primary Health
  Care Program Work

• Medications 1, Nutrition

• Introduction to
  counselling & mental
  health
      12 months course
                 Program work

• Aged Care            • Sexual health

• Child health         • Women’s health

• Chronic disease      • Organising program
                         work
• Men’s health
     Age Care Program work

• Undertake an aged   • Manage aged care
  person’s health       programs
  check               • Participate in the
• Provide care for      evaluation of aged
  common health         care programs
  problems among      • Interpersonal and
  older people          Office Skills
                     aging

• Physiology of aging     • Aged care services and
• The role of elders in     the aboriginal
  traditional and           community
  contemporary            • Common disorders
  aboriginal culture        affecting older
• Planning and              Aboriginal people
  undertaking aged care   • Grief, dying, death and
  assessments               bereavement
• Occupational health
  and safety
        Child health program
• Screen children and    • Manage child health
  monitor growth and       programs
  development of         • Participate in the
  children and promote     evaluation of child
  immunisation             health programs
• Provide care for
  common child health
  problems
• Childhood growth and      • Evaluation of health
  development,                care for Aboriginal
  immunisation and            children
  significant public        • Interpersonal and
  health problems             Office Skills
• Child abuse and
  culturally safe care
• Hearing health care for
  Aboriginal children
• Strategies to improve
  Aboriginal child health
  in the community
     Chronic disease program

• Provide screening        • Manage chronic
  and health                 disease programs
  information to clients   • Participate in the
  for chronic disease        evaluation of chronic
• Provide care to            disease programs
  clients with chronic
  disease
• Cardiovascular disease     • Familiarity with a range
  patterns, basic              of other common
  pathophysiology and          chronic conditions in
  management priorities        Aboriginal populations.
  in Aboriginal              • Adult immunisation
  populations                  programs for
• Diabetes mellitus –          Aboriginal people
  basic pathophysiology      • Organisation of health
  and management               care for Aboriginal
  priorities in Aboriginal     people with chronic
  populations.                 disease
• Chronic renal disease –    • Interpersonal and
  basic pathophysiology        Office Skills
  and management
  priorities in Aboriginal
  populations.
       Men’s Health Program

• Provide screening    • Manage men's health
  and health             programs
  information to men   • Participate in the
• Provide care for       evaluation of men's
  common men’s           health programs
  health problems.
             Men’s Health
• holistic health       • Aboriginal men’s
  needs of Aboriginal     health and the
  men                     justice system
• sexual and            • Interpersonal and
  reproductive health     Office Skills
  for Aboriginal men
• health issues for
  young Aboriginal
  men
      Sexual Health Program

• Undertake a sexual    • Manage sexual
  health check and        health programs
  promote sexual        • Participate in the
  health                  evaluation of sexual
• Provide care to         health program work
  clients with sexual
  health problems
• Control of sexually       • Organising sexual
  transmissible infection     health program work
  in Aboriginal             • Interpersonal and
  communities                 Office Skills
• Sexually Transmissible
  Infections
• How to take a sexual
  history, negotiate
  examination, testing &
  treatment of patient
  and sexual contacts
    Women’s Health Program
• Provide screening      • Participate in the
  and health               evaluation of
  information to women     women's health
• Provide care for         programs
  common women’s
  health problems
• Manage women's
  health programs
• Holistic health      • Family violence and
  needs of women         sexual abuse
• Provision of
  Aboriginal women’s
  health care
• Health care for
  young Aboriginal
  women                • Women’s health
                         program work
• Health care for
  older Aboriginal     • Interpersonal and
  women.                 Office Skills
    Organising Program Work
• Organise health care   • Participate in
  work in Aboriginal       program evaluation
  Primary Health Care.     activities.
• Perform standard
  tasks using a
  computerised Patient
  Information and
  Recall System.
• Health program          • Health program
  activities in primary     evaluation in
  health care               Aboriginal Primary
                            Health Care
• Approaches to client    • Using a Patient
  follow up                 Information and
• The application of a      Recall System
  PIRS in the delivery    • Interpersonal and
  of Primary Health         Office Skills
  Care
                Medication 1
• Promote appropriate use    • Apply calculations and
  of traditional/bush          measures in the use of
  medicines                    medicines
• Take a medicines history   • Administer medicines
• Interpret medicines          safely and manage
  orders                       reactions
• Support clients in their   • Transport, store and
  use of medicines             dispose of medicines
                             • Take a blood sample for
                               pathology testing
• Use of traditional/bush   • Medicines groups and
  medicines                   commonly used
• How medicines work in       medicines
  the body                  • Administration of
• Medication                  medicines
  terminology, history      • Medicines supply,
  taking and                  transport, storage and
  documentation               disposal methods
• Calculations and          • Procedure for taking a
  measures in the use of      blood sample for
  medicines                   pathology testing
• Legal and professional    • Interpersonal and
  aspects of medicines’       office skills
  use
                      Medication 1
•   Asthma medicines
•   Calculations
•   Cold chain
•   Common cardiovascular medicine
•   Common medicine – analgesics and anti-inflammatory
•   Common medicine for diabetes
•   Gastrointestinal disorders
•   Hormonal medicine
•   How medicines work
•   Infections and infestations
•   Legal use of medicine
•   Management of storing medicines
•   Psychotropic and neurological medicines
•   Terms and abbreviations
•   The supply of medications under the pharmaceutical benefit Scheme
•   The use of traditional bush medicines
•   venepuncture
                  Nutrition II
• Provide information      • Work with community
  on nutritional needs       stores to promote
  at different stages of     nutrition
  life
• Inform clients on the
  dietary requirements
  of particular
  conditions
•   Food and dietary guidelines
•   Nutritional requirements at
    different life stages
•   Nutritional needs of people
    with chronic diseases
•   Community stores and
    nutrition
•   Interpersonal and Office Skills
   Introduction to counselling and
            mental health
• Undertake social and       • Provide care to clients
  emotional wellbeing work     with mental illness and
  in an Aboriginal             their families
  community context          • Support clients to
• Perform a basic mental       minimise harm
  health assessment            associated with
• Use listening and            substance use
  counselling skills         • Support victims of family
• Assist clients in crisis     violence
  and their families         • Apply self-care strategies
• Mental health in the   • Common mental
  Aboriginal context       health disorders
• Developmental and      • Substance misuse
  life stages in an        and mental health
  Aboriginal community   • Crisis intervention
  context                • Family violence
• Simple mental health
  assessment
    Where does a Certificate IV
    Aboriginal Health Worker fit?

• AMSE Awards Aboriginal Health Worker
  grade 2

  – Working with limited supervision

  Has the ability to work in any health setting, health
   department or community controlled organisation
   with limited supervision of a senior AHW or
   equivalent