IH26 Same day consultation workshop
Course summary
This course seeks to expand practitioner's expertise in assessing and managing adults presenting in Primary Health Care. It lays the foundations for sound practice in conjunction with clinical workplace support provided by GPs or other advanced practitioners.
Who should attend?
Practice Nurses
Nurse Practitioners
Community Nurses
Important notes
Please note that course content can be amended to suit your needs. For example, ENT conditions can be reviewed instead of eye.
All course material, evaluations and certificate of attendance provided.
Cost
| Course duration | Course CPD | In-house Course |
|---|---|---|
| 3 day(s) | 21 hour(s) | POA |
In-house enquiry
Aims / objectives
- By the end of the 3-day workshop you will:
- Understand the principles of taking an adult history.
- Feel confident to undertake an episodic health history for various common patient presentations
- Understand the techniques of physical examination skills, correctly applying them to each of the systems reviewed.
- Perform a physical examination on a colleague of the systems covered.
- Be familiar with a variety of common presentations including differential diagnoses and management of these conditions.
Course programme
- Basic principles of history taking
- Physical examination techniques
- The patient with a skin complaint- including examination principles, eczemas, psoriasis, infestations, bacterial, viral and fungal infections.
- Respiratory assessment/practice
- Upper & Lower Respiratory Tract conditions including painful sinuses, sore throat, cough & bronchitis
- Cardiovascular assessment/practice
- Abdominal assessment/practice
- Acute abdominal pain covering diarrhea, vomiting, constipation, indigestion, ectopic pregnancy and more.
- Anterior eye assessment/ the red or painful eye
Led by
TBA