The professional caregiver is able to autonomously and independently recognise changes in the patient’s/client’s condition and behaviour and demonstrate adequate responses to these changes. | The professional caregiver is able to:
- differentiate between different physiological states of consciousness (e.g. alertness, sleep, doze),
- detect changes in nutritional status (e.g. weight loss, exsiccosis),
- ask patients/clients to drink enough (see also CA.2.2),
- detect characteristics of excretions (e.g. in terms of colour, odour) and measure amounts of excretions (e.g. amount of daily urine) (see also CA.2.4),
- determine whether patients/clients are in pain,
- identify and report changes in the condition and behaviour of patients/clients who endanger their personal safety,
- detect changes in the mobility of patient/client (see also CA.2.3),
- deal with patients/clients with limitations in understanding (see also CA.6.1),
- detect changes in the skin (e.g. colour, infections),
- detect changes in all vital functions (e.g. dyspnoea, tachycardia, hypotension, elevated temperature),
- identify emergencies and respond adequately (see also CA.3.6),
- report changes in the patient’s/client’s condition to others.
| The professional caregiver is able to: - name mental abilities of wakefulness (e.g. thinking, imagining, remembering, distinguishing between reality and imagination),
- name changes in wakefulness caused by sleep (e.g. reduced response to stimuli, reduced brain activity, decreased self-control),
- name physiological fluid and calorie requirements,
- name diseases leading to altered food and fluid intake (e.g. dementia, dysphagia, vomiting) (see also CA.2.2),
- describe normal and abnormal quantities, appearances and odour of excretions,
- describe normal skin colour and pathological changes (e.g. cyanosis, infections),
- describe normal vital functions (e.g. breath volume, respiratory rate, tachycardia, temperature).
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