Punjab PSEB Senior Secondary NSQF Health Care cheat sheet
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Health Care (PSEB NSQF Senior Secondary)
NSQF levels run 1–10; a Senior Secondary vocational course sits at Level 4, where a learner works under supervision and takes limited responsibility for own work.
Health Care under NSQF is a job-role based qualification: the curriculum is written as competencies (tasks a worker must perform), not as academic subject chapters.
Core employability skills (communication, self-management, entrepreneurship, green skills, digital literacy) are assessed alongside trade skills in every NSQF level-4 qualification.
Infection control follows a standard hierarchy: hand hygiene first, then PPE, safe sharps handling, spill management, and biomedical waste segregation at the point of generation.
Biomedical waste is segregated by colour: yellow (human anatomical, soiled, expired medicine), red (contaminated recyclable plastic), white (sharps in puncture-proof container), blue (glass and metallic implants).
Vital signs baseline ranges for adults: pulse 60–100 beats/min, respiratory rate 12–20 breaths/min, blood pressure about 120/80 mmHg, oral temperature 36.5–37.5 °C.
Body temperature, pulse, respiration, blood pressure, and oxygen saturation (SpO2, normal 95–100%) are the six classic vitals recorded on a patient chart.
Hand hygiene per WHO: wash with soap and water for 40–60 seconds; alcohol-based rub for 20–30 seconds; wash when hands are visibly soiled, rub when not.