Workplace Activities

Perform Blood Collection 

The Benchmarque Group is required to gather evidence of a student’s ability to transfer skills and knowledge from the classroom environment to the workplace environment. We use workplace observation as evidence of this transfer.

Observation in the Workplace

Students are required to provide a Third Party Report that has been signed off, in the primary healthcare setting, by a workplace colleague (observer). The requirement is that your observer is of equal qualification to you or above. Typically, this will be a medical practitioner, practice manager or practice nurse that performs the identified tasks as part of their role. The observer’s role can also include, but not be limited to, mentoring the student to develop relevant workplace skills and knowledge, appropriate to the course content. We recommend that the observer briefly reviews the course material for the individual they are observing prior to undertaking the workplace observation. If you believe that the student’s knowledge, understanding and performance is inadequate in some of the areas covered in this Third Party Report, we suggest that the student continues to practice, with mentorship, to help improve their performance to a satisfactory level.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) 

This Third Party Report may be used as evidence of the observers annual CPD activity.

Completing the Report 

All information you submit will be treated confidentially and will only be shared with the student and The Benchmarque Group. Should you have any questions or concerns with regard to completing this Third Party Report please contact The Benchmarque Group on Ph: 1300 855 568. Please note: a Benchmarque Group assessor may contact you should they require additional information to assist in making the assessment decision.

Third party report tasks (Perform Blood Collection)

Mandated (Students MUST complete the following tasks in the workplace).

The student: 

• Greeted client and confirmed pre-test criteria 
• Prepared for venous blood collection procedure 
• Draws blood 
• Followed post-blood collection procedures.

The student followed established technical, infection control and safety procedures and collected blood suitable for testing using venous blood collection with a maximum of two attempts from 20 individuals comprising adults of varied ages; using the following methods of collection:

• Evacuated system (at least 10 collections)
• Winged infusion sets and/or needle and syringe as per organisation policy and procedure.