HWB306 Holistic Care Assessment 2 Brief 2026 | Open Polytechnic NZ

HWB306 Holistic Care Assessment 2

Learning Outcomes

3. Describe the holistic needs of a person in a health care setting and their impact on a person’s health and wellbeing

Instructions

Complete and submit your assessment according to the Open Polytechnic’s Assessments webpage. This includes information on academic integrity, word limits and referencing.

• Include your name, student number and the assessment number.
• Number your pages.

Submission

• Submit your assessment in one file
• Submit your work through your iQualify course.
• Emailed assessments will not be accepted.
• You will receive an automated notice following submission.

By submitting your assessment, you confirm that it is your own, original work.

Glossary

Cultural safety practices: includes practices like mana enhancing and protecting practices. These practices are based on respect, showing care, empowerment and being uplifting, as well as working with the person and their whānau through their strengths, knowledge and resources. Cultural safety practices aim to restore the person’s sacredness. They focus on the experience of the tangata whai ora and whānau. The worker responds in a way that suits the tangata whai ora and their whānau by being mana enhancing and respectful of their values, beliefs and practices. The worker is able to reflect on their own biases and build a genuine partnership and seek feedback.

Mana enhancing practices: these are practices that uplift and restore mana, sacredness and dignity. They are respectful, honour strength-based approaches, work within the values, beliefs and practices of the tāngata whai ora and their whanau, work with the skills and knowledge of tāngata whai ora and their whanau and are based on building a caring relationship and manaakitanga.

Te Whare Tapa Whā model: the four pillars of taha tinana (physical wellbeing), taha wairua (spiritual wellbeing), taha whānau (family and social wellbeing) and taha hinengaro (mental wellbeing).

Tangata whai ora: a person seeking wellness.

Tāngata whai ora: people seeking wellness.

Task Instructions

• Complete all
• Provide a brief introduction about your workplace setting, including your role and responsibilities.
• Choose one tangata whai ora you support in your health and wellbeing setting to complete this assessment.
• You must seek consent from the tangata whai ora and your manager’s permission to attempt your assessment.
• Write the number of the task above each answer
• Ensure you do not disclose the identity of your tangata whai ora.
• All answers must be written in your own words.

Task 1: The Holistic Needs Of Tāngata Whai Ora

Setting the scene

Provide a brief summary of your workplace and the roles and responsibilities you have within it. This will not be marked but is needed to provide the marker with an understanding of your health and wellbeing setting.

1a. Choose a tangata whai ora you work with and briefly describe them and their health and wellbeing situation.

In your description of the tangata whai ora, consider their:

• age, gender and ethnicity
• whānau situation
• main conditions impacting their health
• interests

1b. Complete the table below to describe four different holistic needs of the tangata whai ora, two met and two

Think about the following needs of the tangata whai ora:

• tinana (physical), whānau (family and social), hinengaro (emotional and mental), wairua (spiritual, religious)
• occupational (worker, interests, volunteer, whānau role)
• educational (learning needs), cultural, financial, taiao (environmental)
• their life stage.

Table – Task 1b.

 Task 2: The Impact Of Holistic Needs On Tāngata Whai Ora

Identify and name a holistic health model such as ‘Te Whare Tapa Whā’, ‘Fonofale’ or another holistic health model of your choice to help understand the impact of the holistic needs of the tangata whai ora you described in Task 1.

Use your choice of model to answer the following questions.

i. Describe how the model can be used to understand how at least two of the needs of the tāngata whai ora are connected (for example, emotional and physical).

ii. Describe the impact on the health and wellbeing of the tangata whai ora if these two holistic health needs are met.

iii. Describe the impact on the health and wellbeing of the tangata whai ora if these two holistic health needs continue not to be met.

Task 3: The Impact Of Holistic Needs On Tāngata Whai Ora Experiencing A Change

Changes impact on people’s health and wellbeing. A change could be:

• needing end of life care
• a change in health or living situation
• getting care and treatment
• the loss of a loved one
• losing their job
• separation

The change could be temporary or permanent, a choice they are making, or out of their control.

Choose a tangata whai ora who is going through a change and describe a need and the impacts of the change.

i. Describe the change.

ii. Describe one need the tangata whai ora has around this change.

iii. Describe two impacts of the change situation on the health and wellbeing of this tangata whai ora.

In your answer relate the need to one of the following models.

• Maslow’s hierarchy of needs.
• Model of change (Prochaska and DiClemente).
• Model of grief (Kubler Ross).
• Worden’s tasks of mourning.

HWB306 Assessment 2 Marking Schedule