Workplace Activities

Level 1 - Wound Management: Foundations and Principles

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 (Level 1 - Wound Management: Foundations and Principles)

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

• Undertaken nursing work in accordance with Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia professional practice standards, goals and guidelines 
• The student has performed wound care management, including wound assessment, health education and evaluation of a person’s wound care in the workplace on 3 wounds. 
• Wound Care Management 1 (Simple Wound Dressing) 
• Wound Assessment 2 (Complex Wound Dressing) 
• Wound Care Management 3

Third party report tasks - Wound Management Pathway (Level 1 - Wound Management: Foundations and Principles & Level 2 - Wound Management: Advanced Practice )

Throughout the workshop participants will be presented with six scenarios, one of which is a case study. Participants have two options to successfully fulfil course assessment standards in order to meet competency requirements:

Option 1

• Complete at least one holistic assessment taken from one of the scenarios using the H.E.I.D.I.E template provided 
• On completion of the assessments, have your assessor co-sign the completed template during the workshop and upload it to your student portal
• On return to your workplace complete one further supervised wound assessment, complete the third-party workplace report and upload it into your student portal

Option 2

• Complete at least 3 holistic assessments taken from one of the scenarios using the H.E.I.D.I.E template provided 
• On completion of the assessments, have your assessor co-sign the completed template during the workshop and upload it to your student portal