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SM-CHS-001 · Version 1.0.0
Complex Health Support Foundations
Complete foundation and assessment package. It prepares workers for supervised high-support practice but does not replace the seven-unit CHCSS00128 skill set or participant-specific clinical sign-off.
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Assessment instruments
16
Audited learning hours
8
Supervised practice hours
68
Source-linked and applied questions
Certifier-visible duration control
How the 16 learning hours are justified
The displayed hours are no longer justified by opening a page or reading a brief overview. Every minute is allocated to a defined learning activity and must produce evidence of active participation. The complete module allocations total 16 h, exactly matching the course nominal learning hours. Supervised practice is recorded separately and cannot be replaced by video or written questions.
4 h 12 min
Structured concept teaching and source reading
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
3 h 12 min
Authoritative video and transcript annotation
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
2 h 52 min
Guided analysis and professional reasoning
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
2 h 32 min
Applied scenarios and changing conditions
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
1 h 36 min
Smiling Monad app practice and evidence production
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
1 h 36 min
Knowledge assessment, feedback and reflection
Counted only when the required learner evidence is submitted and accepted.
Non-negotiable evidence rule
Passive screen time, an opened browser tab, skipped media or generic answers do not establish learning hours. The record must show source use, active responses, applied reasoning, feedback and correction. Critical safety questions require a satisfactory answer and cannot be averaged out.
Status and authority
This is a certifier-ready Smiling Monad internal learner and assessment package for formal review. It may be used for non-accredited provider training, vocational preparation and participant-specific induction. Authoritative external videos and eLearning are linked and assessed, but they are not falsely represented as Smiling Monad-owned or automatically accredited. A nationally recognised result, licence or clinical authorisation may only be issued through the responsible authorised body after its own approval, delivery and assessment requirements are met.
Who this course is for
- Qualified support workers moving into high-support or complex-care roles
- Workers needing health-plan, observation and escalation foundations
- Providers preparing workers for participant-specific clinical training
Before learning begins
- Certificate III or equivalent experience is strongly recommended
- Current first aid and CPR appropriate to the role
- Access to qualified health professionals for participant-specific procedures
- No invasive or high-intensity procedure may be practised without authorised supervision
Course outcomes
Use basic body-system information to recognise and report changes without diagnosing.
Read health and allied health plans and identify worker responsibilities and limits.
Use baseline observations, objective records and escalation thresholds.
Coordinate multiple plans while keeping the person, consent and communication central.
Recognise deterioration, infection, equipment, medication and emergency risks.
Demonstrate readiness for separate participant-specific procedure training.
Full learner materials and evidence plan
Learning sequence
Module 1 · CHS-M1
The person, health plans and worker scope
4 h 0 min audited learning17 questions
Module time and evidence plan
1 h 3 min
Structured concept teaching and source reading
Work through the expanded teaching notes, official source extracts and terminology. Build a glossary and distinguish worker actions from clinical or authorised decisions.
Evidence: Completed guided notes, glossary and source acknowledgement.
48 min
Authoritative video and transcript annotation
Study the assigned authoritative media or certifier-selected sections for the allocated time. Record exact source locations and complete the source-linked questions.
Evidence: Media completion log plus timestamped or transcript-referenced annotations.
43 min
Guided analysis and professional reasoning
Analyse why each principle matters, identify common failure modes and explain where the worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
Evidence: Written, oral or AAC responses to the depth prompts with reasoning.
38 min
Applied scenarios and changing conditions
Complete case scenarios in which information, risk, consent, equipment or the person's condition changes. Explain the safe response rather than selecting an answer by recognition alone.
Evidence: Scenario responses, decision rationale and corrected attempt where required.
24 min
Smiling Monad app practice and evidence production
Complete the module's app workflow using fictional or approved de-identified information and produce an objective record, handover, checklist or escalation.
Evidence: Saved practice artefact or assessor-observed app demonstration.
24 min
Knowledge assessment, feedback and reflection
Answer the video-linked and applied questions, receive feedback, correct misconceptions and state the limits of current competence.
Evidence: Question responses, feedback record, corrections and learner declaration.
Observable outcomes
- Identify the different plans and professionals involved in complex support.
- Explain the worker's role, delegation, consent and escalation limits.
Core teaching propositions
Complex care is coordinated around the person rather than divided into isolated tasks.
Each plan identifies authorised actions, expected observations, risks, review arrangements and escalation contacts.
A worker follows plans and reports changes; the worker does not diagnose or independently redesign clinical support.
In-depth learning — not overview material
Principle 1: analyse, apply and defend
Complex care is coordinated around the person rather than divided into isolated tasks.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 2: analyse, apply and defend
Each plan identifies authorised actions, expected observations, risks, review arrangements and escalation contacts.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 3: analyse, apply and defend
A worker follows plans and reports changes; the worker does not diagnose or independently redesign clinical support.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Integration: outcomes, safety boundary and professional judgement
The learner must integrate the observable outcomes with this non-negotiable boundary: Acting on an unclear or expired plan without clarification is a critical failure.
- 1.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Identify the different plans and professionals involved in complex support.
- 2.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Explain the worker's role, delegation, consent and escalation limits.
- 3.Explain why a high quiz score cannot compensate for a critical safety failure.
- 4.Identify what evidence a human assessor would need before accepting safe performance.
Required output: Submit a one-page professional reasoning summary or complete an assessor-recorded oral conversation.
Assigned authoritative media · CHS-V1
Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission
Authority and approval control
NSW patient-safety authority; the video forms part of mandatory NSW Health learning.
Official clinical-safety video — content warning and supported viewing required.
Source review: Confirm current page, duration and accompanying escalation guidance before delivery.
What the learner must locate
- • listening to family and carer concerns
- • early escalation
- • failures in communication and response systems
- • person- and family-centred safety
Accessibility evidence
- • Provide a content warning before viewing.
- • Offer supported viewing and an equivalent transcript-based task.
The learner must record the exact media title, provider, access date and the timestamps or transcript sections used. The assessor checks the cited source before accepting the answers.
10 questions directly tied to the assigned video
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q1
1. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about listening to family and carer concerns. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to The person, health plans and worker scope.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains listening to family and carer concerns, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q2
2. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about early escalation. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to The person, health plans and worker scope.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains early escalation, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q3
3. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about failures in communication and response systems. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to The person, health plans and worker scope.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains failures in communication and response systems, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q4
4. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about person- and family-centred safety. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to The person, health plans and worker scope.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains person- and family-centred safety, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q5
5. Identify one action shown or described in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration that protects the person's rights, dignity or involvement. Explain how a worker would demonstrate it in practice.
Response form: Applied response with source reference
Satisfactory benchmark: Uses a genuine example from the media and translates it into observable, person-centred worker behaviour.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q6
6. Identify one risk, omission or system weakness raised by Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. State the safe control and who is responsible for action.
Response form: Risk analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Names a source-based risk, selects a proportionate control and assigns responsibility without shifting blame to the person receiving support.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q7Critical safety question
7. Compare the media with this module's critical safety boundary: Acting on an unclear or expired plan without clarification is a critical failure. Where do they reinforce each other?
Response form: Comparative analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Makes a defensible comparison using evidence from both the media and the module boundary.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q8Critical safety question
8. A key condition changes immediately after the situation shown in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. Explain the first safe action, the stop point and the escalation pathway.
Response form: Changed-condition scenario
Satisfactory benchmark: Does not guess or work beyond role; identifies immediate safety, stopping and human escalation actions.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q9
9. Write the objective Smiling Monad app record that should follow the event in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. Include only necessary information and identify the correct audience.
Response form: Professional record
Satisfactory benchmark: Record is timely, factual, relevant, privacy-aware and directed only to people who need the information.
CHS-M1-CHS-V1-Q10Critical safety question
10. State one limitation of Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. What current plan, policy, clinical instruction, law or supervised assessment must also be checked before practice?
Response form: Source evaluation
Satisfactory benchmark: Recognises that external media is not participant-specific authority and names an appropriate controlling source.
7 extended knowledge and application questions
CHS-M1-K1
1. What makes a plan current and usable? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M1-K2
2. How is delegation different from general instruction? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M1-K3Critical safety question
3. What should happen when two plans conflict? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M1-S1Critical safety question
4. Construct a safe decision pathway for a routine situation, then revise it when consent is withdrawn or communication becomes unclear.
Response form: Decision pathway
Satisfactory benchmark: Respects the person's decision, preserves immediate safety and uses the correct clarification or escalation pathway.
CHS-M1-S2
5. Analyse a near miss relevant to this module using person, task, environment, equipment, communication and system factors. Propose controls and review triggers.
Response form: Near-miss analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Analysis is systems-based, non-blaming, proportionate and includes responsibility and review.
CHS-M1-S3Critical safety question
6. Explain what a competent worker would say to a participant, family member and supervisor when the requested action is outside the worker's competence or authority.
Response form: Professional communication
Satisfactory benchmark: Communication is calm, respectful, transparent about limits and offers a safe next step.
CHS-M1-S4
7. Design one observation checklist for a human assessor. Separate observable performance, knowledge questions, critical failures and evidence-authenticity checks.
Response form: Assessment design task
Satisfactory benchmark: Checklist produces valid observable evidence and does not infer practical competence from written answers alone.
Practice activities
- Build a fictional plan map showing responsibilities and escalation contacts.
- Identify conflicts between two supplied plans and prepare clarification questions.
Real app practice
Create a participant health-support dashboard that shows current plans, review dates and only the information each worker needs.
Module evidence checklist
- • Identity-confirmed learner activity log showing actual start, finish and active participation.
- • Completed guided notes and glossary rather than an opened-page timer.
- • Video completion record with title, provider, access date, duration and timestamped or transcript-linked annotations.
- • All video-linked questions answered from the assigned media; generic answers without source evidence are not satisfactory.
- • Applied scenario responses showing reasoning, changed-condition decisions and correction of unsafe answers.
- • Module app-practice artefact using fictional, approved or appropriately de-identified information.
- • Human feedback, learner correction record and declaration of current competence limits.
Critical safety boundary: Acting on an unclear or expired plan without clarification is a critical failure.
Module 2 · CHS-M2
Healthy body systems, baseline and change
4 h 0 min audited learning17 questions
Module time and evidence plan
1 h 3 min
Structured concept teaching and source reading
Work through the expanded teaching notes, official source extracts and terminology. Build a glossary and distinguish worker actions from clinical or authorised decisions.
Evidence: Completed guided notes, glossary and source acknowledgement.
48 min
Authoritative video and transcript annotation
Study the assigned authoritative media or certifier-selected sections for the allocated time. Record exact source locations and complete the source-linked questions.
Evidence: Media completion log plus timestamped or transcript-referenced annotations.
43 min
Guided analysis and professional reasoning
Analyse why each principle matters, identify common failure modes and explain where the worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
Evidence: Written, oral or AAC responses to the depth prompts with reasoning.
38 min
Applied scenarios and changing conditions
Complete case scenarios in which information, risk, consent, equipment or the person's condition changes. Explain the safe response rather than selecting an answer by recognition alone.
Evidence: Scenario responses, decision rationale and corrected attempt where required.
24 min
Smiling Monad app practice and evidence production
Complete the module's app workflow using fictional or approved de-identified information and produce an objective record, handover, checklist or escalation.
Evidence: Saved practice artefact or assessor-observed app demonstration.
24 min
Knowledge assessment, feedback and reflection
Answer the video-linked and applied questions, receive feedback, correct misconceptions and state the limits of current competence.
Evidence: Question responses, feedback record, corrections and learner declaration.
Observable outcomes
- Use basic body-system knowledge to understand observations.
- Compare current presentation with the person's documented baseline.
Core teaching propositions
Workers need enough body-system knowledge to recognise change, use health language accurately and communicate with health professionals.
A baseline is individual. A value or behaviour is interpreted through the person's plan, usual presentation and clinical guidance.
Workers record observable signs, measurements they are authorised and trained to take, direct statements and timing.
In-depth learning — not overview material
Principle 1: analyse, apply and defend
Workers need enough body-system knowledge to recognise change, use health language accurately and communicate with health professionals.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 2: analyse, apply and defend
A baseline is individual. A value or behaviour is interpreted through the person's plan, usual presentation and clinical guidance.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 3: analyse, apply and defend
Workers record observable signs, measurements they are authorised and trained to take, direct statements and timing.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Integration: outcomes, safety boundary and professional judgement
The learner must integrate the observable outcomes with this non-negotiable boundary: Reassuring a person or delaying escalation based on an unqualified diagnosis is a critical failure.
- 1.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Use basic body-system knowledge to understand observations.
- 2.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Compare current presentation with the person's documented baseline.
- 3.Explain why a high quiz score cannot compensate for a critical safety failure.
- 4.Identify what evidence a human assessor would need before accepting safe performance.
Required output: Submit a one-page professional reasoning summary or complete an assessor-recorded oral conversation.
Assigned authoritative media · CHS-V2
Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission
Authority and approval control
Official NSW patient-safety microlearning on systems, situational awareness, cognitive bias and speaking up.
Official education series — reviewer selects the videos relevant to the module and records them.
Source review: Record selected titles and durations in the module delivery record.
What the learner must locate
- • situational awareness
- • safe systems and human factors
- • cognitive bias and premature closure
- • assertive escalation when something is wrong
Accessibility evidence
- • Use captions and transcript-equivalent notes for each selected micro-video.
The learner must record the exact media title, provider, access date and the timestamps or transcript sections used. The assessor checks the cited source before accepting the answers.
10 questions directly tied to the assigned video
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q1
1. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about situational awareness. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Healthy body systems, baseline and change.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains situational awareness, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q2
2. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about safe systems and human factors. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Healthy body systems, baseline and change.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains safe systems and human factors, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q3
3. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about cognitive bias and premature closure. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Healthy body systems, baseline and change.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains cognitive bias and premature closure, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q4
4. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about assertive escalation when something is wrong. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Healthy body systems, baseline and change.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains assertive escalation when something is wrong, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q5
5. Identify one action shown or described in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors that protects the person's rights, dignity or involvement. Explain how a worker would demonstrate it in practice.
Response form: Applied response with source reference
Satisfactory benchmark: Uses a genuine example from the media and translates it into observable, person-centred worker behaviour.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q6
6. Identify one risk, omission or system weakness raised by Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. State the safe control and who is responsible for action.
Response form: Risk analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Names a source-based risk, selects a proportionate control and assigns responsibility without shifting blame to the person receiving support.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q7Critical safety question
7. Compare the media with this module's critical safety boundary: Reassuring a person or delaying escalation based on an unqualified diagnosis is a critical failure. Where do they reinforce each other?
Response form: Comparative analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Makes a defensible comparison using evidence from both the media and the module boundary.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q8Critical safety question
8. A key condition changes immediately after the situation shown in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. Explain the first safe action, the stop point and the escalation pathway.
Response form: Changed-condition scenario
Satisfactory benchmark: Does not guess or work beyond role; identifies immediate safety, stopping and human escalation actions.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q9
9. Write the objective Smiling Monad app record that should follow the event in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. Include only necessary information and identify the correct audience.
Response form: Professional record
Satisfactory benchmark: Record is timely, factual, relevant, privacy-aware and directed only to people who need the information.
CHS-M2-CHS-V2-Q10Critical safety question
10. State one limitation of Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. What current plan, policy, clinical instruction, law or supervised assessment must also be checked before practice?
Response form: Source evaluation
Satisfactory benchmark: Recognises that external media is not participant-specific authority and names an appropriate controlling source.
7 extended knowledge and application questions
CHS-M2-K1
1. Why is an individual baseline important? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M2-K2
2. What is the difference between observation and diagnosis? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M2-K3Critical safety question
3. What details improve a clinical handover? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M2-S1Critical safety question
4. Construct a safe decision pathway for a routine situation, then revise it when consent is withdrawn or communication becomes unclear.
Response form: Decision pathway
Satisfactory benchmark: Respects the person's decision, preserves immediate safety and uses the correct clarification or escalation pathway.
CHS-M2-S2
5. Analyse a near miss relevant to this module using person, task, environment, equipment, communication and system factors. Propose controls and review triggers.
Response form: Near-miss analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Analysis is systems-based, non-blaming, proportionate and includes responsibility and review.
CHS-M2-S3Critical safety question
6. Explain what a competent worker would say to a participant, family member and supervisor when the requested action is outside the worker's competence or authority.
Response form: Professional communication
Satisfactory benchmark: Communication is calm, respectful, transparent about limits and offers a safe next step.
CHS-M2-S4
7. Design one observation checklist for a human assessor. Separate observable performance, knowledge questions, critical failures and evidence-authenticity checks.
Response form: Assessment design task
Satisfactory benchmark: Checklist produces valid observable evidence and does not infer practical competence from written answers alone.
Practice activities
- Match changes to relevant body systems and escalation questions.
- Rewrite vague health notes into objective observations.
Real app practice
Record a fictional change from baseline, select urgency from the supplied plan and prepare a concise health handover.
Module evidence checklist
- • Identity-confirmed learner activity log showing actual start, finish and active participation.
- • Completed guided notes and glossary rather than an opened-page timer.
- • Video completion record with title, provider, access date, duration and timestamped or transcript-linked annotations.
- • All video-linked questions answered from the assigned media; generic answers without source evidence are not satisfactory.
- • Applied scenario responses showing reasoning, changed-condition decisions and correction of unsafe answers.
- • Module app-practice artefact using fictional, approved or appropriately de-identified information.
- • Human feedback, learner correction record and declaration of current competence limits.
Critical safety boundary: Reassuring a person or delaying escalation based on an unqualified diagnosis is a critical failure.
Module 3 · CHS-M3
Risk, infection, equipment and multiple supports
4 h 0 min audited learning17 questions
Module time and evidence plan
1 h 3 min
Structured concept teaching and source reading
Work through the expanded teaching notes, official source extracts and terminology. Build a glossary and distinguish worker actions from clinical or authorised decisions.
Evidence: Completed guided notes, glossary and source acknowledgement.
48 min
Authoritative video and transcript annotation
Study the assigned authoritative media or certifier-selected sections for the allocated time. Record exact source locations and complete the source-linked questions.
Evidence: Media completion log plus timestamped or transcript-referenced annotations.
43 min
Guided analysis and professional reasoning
Analyse why each principle matters, identify common failure modes and explain where the worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
Evidence: Written, oral or AAC responses to the depth prompts with reasoning.
38 min
Applied scenarios and changing conditions
Complete case scenarios in which information, risk, consent, equipment or the person's condition changes. Explain the safe response rather than selecting an answer by recognition alone.
Evidence: Scenario responses, decision rationale and corrected attempt where required.
24 min
Smiling Monad app practice and evidence production
Complete the module's app workflow using fictional or approved de-identified information and produce an objective record, handover, checklist or escalation.
Evidence: Saved practice artefact or assessor-observed app demonstration.
24 min
Knowledge assessment, feedback and reflection
Answer the video-linked and applied questions, receive feedback, correct misconceptions and state the limits of current competence.
Evidence: Question responses, feedback record, corrections and learner declaration.
Observable outcomes
- Prepare for interacting health, equipment and infection risks.
- Use checklists without replacing professional judgement or the plan.
Core teaching propositions
Risks can interact: fatigue may affect swallowing, illness may affect blood glucose, equipment failure may interrupt nutrition or ventilation.
Workers use standard and transmission-based precautions according to current plan and policy.
Equipment checks, backup arrangements, consumables and emergency power or replacement plans are confirmed before support begins.
In-depth learning — not overview material
Principle 1: analyse, apply and defend
Risks can interact: fatigue may affect swallowing, illness may affect blood glucose, equipment failure may interrupt nutrition or ventilation.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 2: analyse, apply and defend
Workers use standard and transmission-based precautions according to current plan and policy.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 3: analyse, apply and defend
Equipment checks, backup arrangements, consumables and emergency power or replacement plans are confirmed before support begins.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Integration: outcomes, safety boundary and professional judgement
The learner must integrate the observable outcomes with this non-negotiable boundary: Proceeding without essential equipment, backup, plan or competent staffing is a critical failure.
- 1.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Prepare for interacting health, equipment and infection risks.
- 2.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Use checklists without replacing professional judgement or the plan.
- 3.Explain why a high quiz score cannot compensate for a critical safety failure.
- 4.Identify what evidence a human assessor would need before accepting safe performance.
Required output: Submit a one-page professional reasoning summary or complete an assessor-recorded oral conversation.
Assigned authoritative media · CHS-V1
Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission
Authority and approval control
NSW patient-safety authority; the video forms part of mandatory NSW Health learning.
Official clinical-safety video — content warning and supported viewing required.
Source review: Confirm current page, duration and accompanying escalation guidance before delivery.
What the learner must locate
- • listening to family and carer concerns
- • early escalation
- • failures in communication and response systems
- • person- and family-centred safety
Accessibility evidence
- • Provide a content warning before viewing.
- • Offer supported viewing and an equivalent transcript-based task.
The learner must record the exact media title, provider, access date and the timestamps or transcript sections used. The assessor checks the cited source before accepting the answers.
10 questions directly tied to the assigned video
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q1
1. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about listening to family and carer concerns. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Risk, infection, equipment and multiple supports.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains listening to family and carer concerns, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q2
2. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about early escalation. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Risk, infection, equipment and multiple supports.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains early escalation, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q3
3. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about failures in communication and response systems. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Risk, infection, equipment and multiple supports.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains failures in communication and response systems, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q4
4. Using Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration, explain what the source teaches about person- and family-centred safety. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Risk, infection, equipment and multiple supports.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains person- and family-centred safety, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q5
5. Identify one action shown or described in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration that protects the person's rights, dignity or involvement. Explain how a worker would demonstrate it in practice.
Response form: Applied response with source reference
Satisfactory benchmark: Uses a genuine example from the media and translates it into observable, person-centred worker behaviour.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q6
6. Identify one risk, omission or system weakness raised by Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. State the safe control and who is responsible for action.
Response form: Risk analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Names a source-based risk, selects a proportionate control and assigns responsibility without shifting blame to the person receiving support.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q7Critical safety question
7. Compare the media with this module's critical safety boundary: Proceeding without essential equipment, backup, plan or competent staffing is a critical failure. Where do they reinforce each other?
Response form: Comparative analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Makes a defensible comparison using evidence from both the media and the module boundary.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q8Critical safety question
8. A key condition changes immediately after the situation shown in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. Explain the first safe action, the stop point and the escalation pathway.
Response form: Changed-condition scenario
Satisfactory benchmark: Does not guess or work beyond role; identifies immediate safety, stopping and human escalation actions.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q9
9. Write the objective Smiling Monad app record that should follow the event in Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. Include only necessary information and identify the correct audience.
Response form: Professional record
Satisfactory benchmark: Record is timely, factual, relevant, privacy-aware and directed only to people who need the information.
CHS-M3-CHS-V1-Q10Critical safety question
10. State one limitation of Kyran Day's story: listening and responding to deterioration. What current plan, policy, clinical instruction, law or supervised assessment must also be checked before practice?
Response form: Source evaluation
Satisfactory benchmark: Recognises that external media is not participant-specific authority and names an appropriate controlling source.
7 extended knowledge and application questions
CHS-M3-K1
1. How can risks interact? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M3-K2
2. What belongs in an equipment contingency plan? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M3-K3Critical safety question
3. When should a shift or procedure not proceed? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M3-S1Critical safety question
4. Construct a safe decision pathway for a routine situation, then revise it when consent is withdrawn or communication becomes unclear.
Response form: Decision pathway
Satisfactory benchmark: Respects the person's decision, preserves immediate safety and uses the correct clarification or escalation pathway.
CHS-M3-S2
5. Analyse a near miss relevant to this module using person, task, environment, equipment, communication and system factors. Propose controls and review triggers.
Response form: Near-miss analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Analysis is systems-based, non-blaming, proportionate and includes responsibility and review.
CHS-M3-S3Critical safety question
6. Explain what a competent worker would say to a participant, family member and supervisor when the requested action is outside the worker's competence or authority.
Response form: Professional communication
Satisfactory benchmark: Communication is calm, respectful, transparent about limits and offers a safe next step.
CHS-M3-S4
7. Design one observation checklist for a human assessor. Separate observable performance, knowledge questions, critical failures and evidence-authenticity checks.
Response form: Assessment design task
Satisfactory benchmark: Checklist produces valid observable evidence and does not infer practical competence from written answers alone.
Practice activities
- Complete a multi-risk pre-shift review for three fictional participants.
- Respond to a missing consumable, power failure and infection alert.
Real app practice
Use readiness checks to block a complex-care shift when the required plan, equipment, consumable or competent second worker is missing.
Module evidence checklist
- • Identity-confirmed learner activity log showing actual start, finish and active participation.
- • Completed guided notes and glossary rather than an opened-page timer.
- • Video completion record with title, provider, access date, duration and timestamped or transcript-linked annotations.
- • All video-linked questions answered from the assigned media; generic answers without source evidence are not satisfactory.
- • Applied scenario responses showing reasoning, changed-condition decisions and correction of unsafe answers.
- • Module app-practice artefact using fictional, approved or appropriately de-identified information.
- • Human feedback, learner correction record and declaration of current competence limits.
Critical safety boundary: Proceeding without essential equipment, backup, plan or competent staffing is a critical failure.
Module 4 · CHS-M4
Deterioration, emergency communication and review
4 h 0 min audited learning17 questions
Module time and evidence plan
1 h 3 min
Structured concept teaching and source reading
Work through the expanded teaching notes, official source extracts and terminology. Build a glossary and distinguish worker actions from clinical or authorised decisions.
Evidence: Completed guided notes, glossary and source acknowledgement.
48 min
Authoritative video and transcript annotation
Study the assigned authoritative media or certifier-selected sections for the allocated time. Record exact source locations and complete the source-linked questions.
Evidence: Media completion log plus timestamped or transcript-referenced annotations.
43 min
Guided analysis and professional reasoning
Analyse why each principle matters, identify common failure modes and explain where the worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
Evidence: Written, oral or AAC responses to the depth prompts with reasoning.
38 min
Applied scenarios and changing conditions
Complete case scenarios in which information, risk, consent, equipment or the person's condition changes. Explain the safe response rather than selecting an answer by recognition alone.
Evidence: Scenario responses, decision rationale and corrected attempt where required.
24 min
Smiling Monad app practice and evidence production
Complete the module's app workflow using fictional or approved de-identified information and produce an objective record, handover, checklist or escalation.
Evidence: Saved practice artefact or assessor-observed app demonstration.
24 min
Knowledge assessment, feedback and reflection
Answer the video-linked and applied questions, receive feedback, correct misconceptions and state the limits of current competence.
Evidence: Question responses, feedback record, corrections and learner declaration.
Observable outcomes
- Recognise plan-defined deterioration and emergency triggers.
- Complete urgent communication, incident reporting and follow-up review.
Core teaching propositions
Workers act on the plan and the situation rather than waiting for certainty.
Urgent communication states who the person is, what changed, relevant observations, actions taken and what is needed.
After the event, records, debrief, worker support and plan review are completed without blame or evidence alteration.
In-depth learning — not overview material
Principle 1: analyse, apply and defend
Workers act on the plan and the situation rather than waiting for certainty.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 2: analyse, apply and defend
Urgent communication states who the person is, what changed, relevant observations, actions taken and what is needed.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Principle 3: analyse, apply and defend
After the event, records, debrief, worker support and plan review are completed without blame or evidence alteration.
- 1.Explain why this principle matters for the person, the worker and the service.
- 2.Describe a realistic failure mode if this principle is ignored or applied mechanically.
- 3.Identify the exact point at which a worker must stop, seek clarification or escalate.
- 4.Show how the principle changes when consent, communication, equipment, staffing or the person's condition changes.
Required output: Produce one safe example, one unsafe example and one corrected record or handover using objective language.
Integration: outcomes, safety boundary and professional judgement
The learner must integrate the observable outcomes with this non-negotiable boundary: Waiting for Kimi, hiding deterioration or failing to initiate the plan-defined emergency response is a critical failure.
- 1.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Recognise plan-defined deterioration and emergency triggers.
- 2.Demonstrate how the learner would produce evidence for: Complete urgent communication, incident reporting and follow-up review.
- 3.Explain why a high quiz score cannot compensate for a critical safety failure.
- 4.Identify what evidence a human assessor would need before accepting safe performance.
Required output: Submit a one-page professional reasoning summary or complete an assessor-recorded oral conversation.
Assigned authoritative media · CHS-V2
Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors
NSW Clinical Excellence Commission
Authority and approval control
Official NSW patient-safety microlearning on systems, situational awareness, cognitive bias and speaking up.
Official education series — reviewer selects the videos relevant to the module and records them.
Source review: Record selected titles and durations in the module delivery record.
What the learner must locate
- • situational awareness
- • safe systems and human factors
- • cognitive bias and premature closure
- • assertive escalation when something is wrong
Accessibility evidence
- • Use captions and transcript-equivalent notes for each selected micro-video.
The learner must record the exact media title, provider, access date and the timestamps or transcript sections used. The assessor checks the cited source before accepting the answers.
10 questions directly tied to the assigned video
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q1
1. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about situational awareness. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Deterioration, emergency communication and review.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains situational awareness, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q2
2. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about safe systems and human factors. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Deterioration, emergency communication and review.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains safe systems and human factors, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q3
3. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about cognitive bias and premature closure. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Deterioration, emergency communication and review.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains cognitive bias and premature closure, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q4
4. Using Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors, explain what the source teaches about assertive escalation when something is wrong. Cite the exact timestamp or transcript section and connect it to Deterioration, emergency communication and review.
Response form: Short analysis with timestamp or transcript citation
Satisfactory benchmark: Accurately explains assertive escalation when something is wrong, identifies the source location and makes a relevant module connection without inventing content.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q5
5. Identify one action shown or described in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors that protects the person's rights, dignity or involvement. Explain how a worker would demonstrate it in practice.
Response form: Applied response with source reference
Satisfactory benchmark: Uses a genuine example from the media and translates it into observable, person-centred worker behaviour.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q6
6. Identify one risk, omission or system weakness raised by Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. State the safe control and who is responsible for action.
Response form: Risk analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Names a source-based risk, selects a proportionate control and assigns responsibility without shifting blame to the person receiving support.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q7Critical safety question
7. Compare the media with this module's critical safety boundary: Waiting for Kimi, hiding deterioration or failing to initiate the plan-defined emergency response is a critical failure. Where do they reinforce each other?
Response form: Comparative analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Makes a defensible comparison using evidence from both the media and the module boundary.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q8Critical safety question
8. A key condition changes immediately after the situation shown in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. Explain the first safe action, the stop point and the escalation pathway.
Response form: Changed-condition scenario
Satisfactory benchmark: Does not guess or work beyond role; identifies immediate safety, stopping and human escalation actions.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q9
9. Write the objective Smiling Monad app record that should follow the event in Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. Include only necessary information and identify the correct audience.
Response form: Professional record
Satisfactory benchmark: Record is timely, factual, relevant, privacy-aware and directed only to people who need the information.
CHS-M4-CHS-V2-Q10Critical safety question
10. State one limitation of Brief Bites: patient safety and human factors. What current plan, policy, clinical instruction, law or supervised assessment must also be checked before practice?
Response form: Source evaluation
Satisfactory benchmark: Recognises that external media is not participant-specific authority and names an appropriate controlling source.
7 extended knowledge and application questions
CHS-M4-K1
1. What information is needed in urgent escalation? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M4-K2
2. Why should a worker act before having a diagnosis? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M4-K3Critical safety question
3. What must happen after an incident? Give the rule, explain why it matters, then apply it to a realistic changed situation.
Response form: Extended applied response
Satisfactory benchmark: Answer is accurate, explains reasoning and applies the principle without exceeding worker role or authority.
CHS-M4-S1Critical safety question
4. Construct a safe decision pathway for a routine situation, then revise it when consent is withdrawn or communication becomes unclear.
Response form: Decision pathway
Satisfactory benchmark: Respects the person's decision, preserves immediate safety and uses the correct clarification or escalation pathway.
CHS-M4-S2
5. Analyse a near miss relevant to this module using person, task, environment, equipment, communication and system factors. Propose controls and review triggers.
Response form: Near-miss analysis
Satisfactory benchmark: Analysis is systems-based, non-blaming, proportionate and includes responsibility and review.
CHS-M4-S3Critical safety question
6. Explain what a competent worker would say to a participant, family member and supervisor when the requested action is outside the worker's competence or authority.
Response form: Professional communication
Satisfactory benchmark: Communication is calm, respectful, transparent about limits and offers a safe next step.
CHS-M4-S4
7. Design one observation checklist for a human assessor. Separate observable performance, knowledge questions, critical failures and evidence-authenticity checks.
Response form: Assessment design task
Satisfactory benchmark: Checklist produces valid observable evidence and does not infer practical competence from written answers alone.
Practice activities
- Complete four timed escalation simulations.
- Participate in a fictional multidisciplinary review meeting.
Real app practice
Create an urgent targeted alert followed by a structured handover and unresolved-action tracker.
Module evidence checklist
- • Identity-confirmed learner activity log showing actual start, finish and active participation.
- • Completed guided notes and glossary rather than an opened-page timer.
- • Video completion record with title, provider, access date, duration and timestamped or transcript-linked annotations.
- • All video-linked questions answered from the assigned media; generic answers without source evidence are not satisfactory.
- • Applied scenario responses showing reasoning, changed-condition decisions and correction of unsafe answers.
- • Module app-practice artefact using fictional, approved or appropriately de-identified information.
- • Human feedback, learner correction record and declaration of current competence limits.
Critical safety boundary: Waiting for Kimi, hiding deterioration or failing to initiate the plan-defined emergency response is a critical failure.
Undergraduate certifier review controls
Course-wide academic and assessment decision rules
- 01.Allocated hours are planned learning time, not automatic credit. Time is accepted only when the required evidence demonstrates active participation.
- 02.Every video-linked response must identify the assigned source and cite a timestamp or transcript section. Unsupported generic answers are returned for further evidence.
- 03.Learners must achieve at least 80 percent across non-critical knowledge items and 100 percent on critical safety questions.
- 04.A critical unsafe answer triggers targeted relearning and a new attempt. It cannot be averaged out by stronger answers elsewhere.
- 05.Written and video learning never replace direct practical observation where the course assessment requires performance.
- 06.Media and external eLearning remain the intellectual property of their providers and are linked, not copied. The exact item, version and access date are recorded.
- 07.The human assessor or certifier confirms source currency, accessibility, answer-key adequacy, assessment validity and any nationally recognised or clinical authority claim.
Complete assessment instruments and marking benchmarks
Assessment suite
CHS-A1 · Thirty applied questions and three integrated plan cases
Complex-care knowledge and plan interpretation
Learner must provide
- At least 80 percent overall
- All deterioration, scope, infection and emergency questions correct
- Accurate plan maps and clarification decisions
Satisfactory benchmark
- Uses body-system knowledge at support-worker level without diagnosing.
- Identifies scope, delegation, consent, privacy and escalation requirements.
- Recognises interacting risks and missing readiness conditions.
- Selects appropriate human contacts and urgency from the supplied plans.
Critical failures
- Invents clinical directions or changes a plan.
- Minimises deterioration or delays emergency action.
- Proceeds when essential staffing, equipment or authority is missing.
Assessment conditions
- Current fictional plans and policies
- Questions include disability, aged-care and private-care contexts
- Authenticity confirmed through changed follow-up questions
CHS-A2 · Simulation or approved workplace evidence across three situations
Three-situation observation and escalation portfolio
Learner must provide
- Baseline and change observations
- Plan-based risk and escalation decisions
- Objective records and targeted handovers
- Post-event review actions
Satisfactory benchmark
- Collects only authorised observations and records them accurately.
- Compares with the individual baseline and follows the plan.
- Escalates with relevant, concise and timely information.
- Identifies required plan, equipment or system improvements.
Critical failures
- Diagnoses or reassures outside role.
- Fails to act on a plan-defined urgent trigger.
- Falsifies, deletes or backdates health information.
Assessment conditions
- At least three different situations
- No invasive procedure required in this foundation assessment
- Qualified health input used to validate clinical cues and benchmarks
CHS-A3 · Integrated app task and human oral assessment
Readiness board and professional conversation
Learner must provide
- Builds a complete fictional readiness board
- Explains missing requirements and blocking decisions
- Responds to changed conditions and competing priorities
- States personal competence limits and supervision needs
Satisfactory benchmark
- Every critical plan, equipment, staffing and review requirement is represented.
- Information access is limited to role need.
- Blocking decisions prioritise participant safety without unnecessary exclusion.
- Reasoning remains correct when the assessor changes the scenario.
Critical failures
- Marks a worker ready based only on a generic certificate.
- Exposes unnecessary health information.
- Removes a safety block without authorised evidence.
Assessment conditions
- Fictional data only
- Human assessor conducts the professional conversation
- AI prompts and learner declarations retained for authenticity review
Final decision rules
- All three tasks and all critical criteria must be satisfactory.
- This foundation course does not sign off any invasive or participant-specific procedure.
- Each high-intensity activity requires separate current participant-specific training and observation.
- RTO credit or a CHCSS00128 outcome requires assessment of every official unit by an authorised RTO.
Quality controls
- Current official source check before every release and at least annually.
- Human clinical, vocational or WHS review appropriate to the subject before live delivery.
- Participant and lived-experience review of language, dignity, accessibility and realism.
- Pre-use assessment validation before an RTO or recognised outcome is claimed.
- Post-use validation using a risk-based sample of learner evidence and assessor decisions.
- Version-controlled learner, assessor, mapping, answer and evidence documents.
- AI may teach, adapt and provide formative practice but cannot make the final assessment decision.
- Critical safety failures cannot be averaged out by scores from other tasks.
- Reasonable adjustment may change the method but not remove essential practical performance.
- Real participant information is not used in practice unless lawful, consented, necessary and securely handled.
Official alignment and verification
Course mapping and authoritative media are evidence and partnership tools. They do not themselves create an RTO result or clinical authority. The responsible human certifier must verify the current official source, the selected media, the answer benchmarks and practical evidence before approving delivery.
Controlled package: docs/school/specialist/SM_CHS_001_COMPLETE_COURSE_PACKAGE.md