The professional caregiver is able to autonomously and independently guide and supervise others in data gathering and integrate scientific findings into the gathering process. | The professional caregiver is able to: - show others the standards of data collection,
- complete scales based on physical examinations and draw conclusions regarding the care process (see also CA.1.3),
- analyse the patient's medical record to use the data for nursing care (e.g. biochemical data regarding the amount of liquids required by the patient/client, specialised examination results for improving safety procedures),
- show others how to operate technical equipment for care assessment (e.g. surveillance monitor, ventilator, intracranial pressure probe) (see also CA.3.5),
- support the development, improvement and evaluation of existing guidelines for data gathering,
- implement new scales used in patient/client assessment,
- run training sessions on data collecting and documenting (see also CA.A.2),
- work with other professionals to improve information flows within the team (see also CA.5.2).
| The professional caregiver is able to: - discuss ethical principles of data collection (see also CA.B.1),
- list general health care indicators (e.g. demographic and socioeconomic context, mortality and morbidity, health care utilisation and environment),
- list methods and techniques of patient/client record collection which differentiate symptomatology of various diseases (e.g. observation interview, measurement),
- describe additional scales/indicators for patient/client assessment (e.g. visual analogue scale, sleep apnoea clinical score, New York Heart Association, Torrence, ankle brachial index measurement, mini mental state examination, waist to hip ratio),
- explain the process of guiding and supervising others,
- explain strategies for assessing and motivating employees with regard to effective data collection.
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