23841 Investigate the Need for a Phase 3 Cardiac Club in a Local Community

23841 Investigate the Need for a Phase 3 Cardiac Club in a Local Community

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Investigate the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community

Level / 3
Credits / 4

PurposeThis unit standard is for people who want to operate effectively as a cardiac club leader at a phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation club within a community.

People credited with this unit standard are able to: explain the services provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of cardiac rehabilitation; evaluate the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community; define the target market for a new cardiac club in a local community and describe what the club will offer to that community.

Subfield / Fitness
Domain / Fitness Education
Status / Registered
Status date / 14 December 2007
Date version published / 14 December 2007
Planned review date / 31 December 2012
Entry information / Recommended: Unit 23842, Demonstrate knowledge of cardiac rehabilitation fundamentals.
Accreditation / Evaluation of documentation by NZQA and industry.
Standard setting body (SSB) / Sport, Fitness and Recreation Industry Training Organisation Limited
Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP) reference / 0069

This AMAP can be accessed at

Special notes

1A local community is a community defined by the geographic and demographic boundaries that influence it’s behavioural norms. For example, a community within a given suburb in a metropolitan area whose elderly members typically complete most of their activities within their suburb or a neighbouring suburb.

2There are three phases to cardiac rehabilitation. Phase 1 involves inpatient care within a hospital after a person has suffered a cardiac event, phase 2 involves outpatient care after discharge from hospital and phase 3 is a community oriented programme. Although encouraged to do so, heart event patients may not progress from one phase to the next.

3Community oriented programmes usually occur in fitness clubs, community centres, community halls and church facilities. The focus of these programmes is the rehabilitation and prevention of cardiac disease in the community. Phase 3 cardiac clubs achieve this aim through the delivery of programmes that focus on providing exercise, education and emotional support to its members.

4A cardiac club leader is typically a person with specialist skills and/or knowledge in the fitness or health sectors, such as a fitness instructor or nurse, or those with first hand experience of cardiac disease. A cardiac club leader is expected to have the time and energy required to set up a club, plan its activities, seek support for the club, enthuse new and existing members, review the club’s activities and follow through on the club’s start-up plan.

5Competence in this unit standard may require the National Heart Foundation’s ‘Club Leadership Training Manual’ and assistance from the National Heart Foundation. PO Box 17160, Greenlane, Auckland, , (09) 571-9191.

Elements and performance criteria

Element 1

Explain the cardiac rehabilitation services provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of cardiac rehabilitation.

Performance criteria

1.1The services provided at phase 1, phase 2 and phase 3 of cardiac rehabilitation are explained using examples.

Rangemust include at least two examples of services for each of the following outcomes – education, exercise and emotional support.

Element 2

Evaluate the need for a phase 3 cardiac club in a local community.

Performance criteria

2.1The characteristics of the local community are described in terms of the need for phase three cardiac rehabilitation services.

Rangemust include but is not limited to-gender, age, ethnicity, income.

2.2The cardiac rehabilitation services currently available in the local community and their characteristics are explained in terms of their suitability for the local community.

Rangemust include but is not limited to-phase 1, 2 and any existing phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation programmes available to the local community;

characteristics must include but are not limited to – accessibility, quality, quantity, type.

Element 3

Define the target market for a new phase 3 cardiac club in a local community and describe what the club will offer to that community.

Performance criteria

3.1A proposed cardiac club’s target market is defined in terms of demographics, psychographics and geography.

3.2The cardiac rehabilitation services the proposed phase 3 cardiac club will offer to the local community are described.

Rangemust include how the services will provide education, exercise and emotional support.

may include but not limited to – facilitating social gatherings, organising guest speakers, providing personal follow-up and support, exercise type, frequency, intensity and duration, nutrition and weight management information.

Please note

Providers must be accredited by NZQA, or an inter-institutional body with delegated authority for quality assurance, before they can report credits from assessment against unit standards or deliver courses of study leading to that assessment.

Industry Training Organisations must be accredited by NZQA before they can register credits from assessment against unit standards.

Accredited providers and Industry Training Organisations assessing against unit standards must engage with the moderation system that applies to those standards.

Accreditation requirements and an outline of the moderation system that applies to this standard are outlined in the Accreditation and Moderation Action Plan (AMAP). The AMAP also includes useful information about special requirements for organisations wishing to develop education and training programmes, such as minimum qualifications for tutors and assessors, and special resource requirements.

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 New Zealand Qualifications Authority 2018