Nursing & Healthcare Revision — Agored Cymru Occupational Qualification
Complete Agored Cymru Occupational Qualification Nursing & Healthcare specification revision resources. Tailored syllabus coverage with topic breakdowns, quizzes, and practice questions.
Specification Topics
- Administer Eye Drops to Individuals within the Health Care Sector
- Agored Cymru Level 5 Diploma in Practitioner Reflexology - Core Content
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Radiation Protection and Awareness
- The Use of Contrast Media in Clinical Imaging
- Introduction to Visual Impairment
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Fundamentals of Care
- Obtain a Patient History for Ophthalmology Records
- Ophthalmic Equipment and Technology
- Personal Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace
- Principles for Implementing Duty of Care
- Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care
- Promote and Implement Health and Safety
- Promote Communication
- Promote Equality and Inclusion
- Promote Good Practice in Handling Information
- Assessment of Vision in Adults who can Recognise Letters /Shapes
- Promote and implement health and safety in health and social care
- Promote person centred approaches in health and social care
- The role of the health and social care worker
- Understanding Ophthalmic Case Notes
- Introduction to duty of care in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Introduction to Ocular Anatomy
- Communication and Customer Service for Health Care Support Workers
- Dignity at Work
- Promote communication in health, social care or children’s and young people’s settings
- Engage in Personal Development
- Promote good practice in handling information in health and social care settings
- Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
- Assist the practitioner to carry out health care activities
- Introduction to Continued Professional Development within the NHS Wales
- Clinical Imaging Support Worker: Anatomy and Terminology
- The principles of Infection Prevention and Control
- Introduction to Professional Behaviour
- Cleaning, Decontamination and Waste Management
Top Exam Board Tips
- Emphasise patient communication and consent.
- Mention checking expiry dates and storage.
- Practice the technique step by step.
- During observed practical exams, narrate your clinical reasoning: explain why you select a particular reflex area based on your client interview.
- Ensure your treatment documentation includes measurable outcomes or client feedback to demonstrate evidence-based practice.
- Prepare for professional discussion by linking reflexology theory to anatomy, physiology, and pathology taught in the Core Content.
- In competency demonstrations, show adaptability—modify your approach if the client reports discomfort, and explain your adjustment.
- When discussing legislation, always link each regulation to a concrete example from clinical practice to demonstrate applied understanding.
- In assignments, structure your answers around the three key radiation protection pillars: justification, optimisation, and dose limitation.
- Use case studies to illustrate how radiation protection measures are adapted for different patient groups (e.g., paediatrics, pregnant patients).
Common Mistakes to Avoid
- Forgetting to check the patient's identity.
- Touching the dropper to the eye or eyelid.
- Not documenting the administration correctly.
- Treating reflex points as direct cures for specific conditions rather than as part of a holistic stimulation of the body's self-healing processes.
- Applying uniform pressure without considering individual client sensitivity or foot tissue variation.
- Neglecting to update treatment records or failing to note reactions, which compromises professional standards and continuity of care.
- Overlooking the importance of warm-up and cool-down techniques to prepare the feet and integrate the treatment.
- Confusing the roles of IR(ME)R (patient protection) and IRR (occupational and public protection), leading to incorrect application of safety measures.
Key Terminology & Definitions
- 1. Understand current legislation, policy and procedures for the administration of eye drops.2. Be able to administer eye drops.
- Core knowledge
- Practical application
- Understand the use of ionising radiation., Understand a range of clinical imaging techniques., Understand the legislation governing medical exposures., Understand how radiation protection is used within the clinical imaging department.
- Contrast agents and their properties
- Indications for contrast-enhanced imaging
- Patient assessment and preparation
- Recognition of adverse reactions
- Infection control and cannulation
- Post-procedure patient monitoring
- 1. Understand common definitions and terminology associated with sight loss.2. Know different types of sight loss.3. Know the eye conditions that are the most common causes of sight loss in: - older people - people of working age - children and young people.4. Understand the emotional effects of sight loss.5. Know the role of an Eye Clinic Liaison Officer and ROVI (Rehab Officer for the Visually Impaired).
- Understand how to work safely in a range of modalities in clinical imaging., Understand how to provide care in clinical imaging settings., Be able to provide care in clinical imaging settings.
- 1. Understand current legislation, national guidelines, policies, protocols and good practice related to obtaining a patient history.2. Be able to take and record a patient history.
- 1. Know the equipment and technology used for patient assessment in own place of work.2. Understand the application of the equipment and technology used for patient assessment in own place of work.
- 1. Understand the meaning of 'health and wellbeing’.2. Understand how poor health and wellbeing affect individuals and organisations. 3. Be able to plan personal changes in relation to health and wellbeing.4. Understand ways of managing own personal health and wellbeing in the workplace.