Minor injury essentials Online: Accredited by the RCN Centre for Professional Accreditation
Course code: AOL20
Course summary
PDUK brings the classroom to you. Based on our extremely popular Minor Injury Essentials face to face workshop, this programme covers many of the same skills but allows you to learn them in a virtual classroom.
The course focuses on the needs of practitioners whose clinical remit include assessing and managing basic injuries. Upon completing the course, participants will be more confident in dealing with these presentations and have a solid foundation to build upon.
Who should attend?
Junior doctors
Nurse practitioners
Practice nurses
School nurses
Allied health professionals
Important notes
This course has now been discontinued and is no longer available for booking.
Cost
| Course duration | Course CPD | Full price (incl VAT) per person |
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| 3 day(s) | 21 hour(s) | £ |
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Aims / objectives
By the end of the 3-day workshop you will:
- Apply history-taking essentials thereby promoting safe practice.
- Link and apply anatomy of upper and lower body musculoskeletal (MSK) structures to a variety of physical assessment techniques.
- Discuss appropriate management of common traumatic MSK presentations including principles of analgesia and supportive therapy.
- Be able to examine and manage various types of wounds.
- Practice some common basic minor clinical procedures
Course programme
- Principles of MSK history-taking, assessment, and Evidence-Based management
- Basic assessment of the neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand. To cover:
- Targeted history taking
- Anatomy
- Joint function
- Essential physical examination techniques
- Common conditions - signs and symptoms, differential diagnoses
- Management/ referral
- Break-out rooms/practice (2:30- 5:00pm)
- Head injuries
- As above for lower limb assessment- the hip, knee, ankle and foot.
- Break-out rooms/practice (2:30- 5:00pm)
- Classification, assessment and management of acute wounds, burns & minor infections
- Local analgesia
- Types/safe levels
- Local infiltration
- Digital nerve block – (demo/practice)- Students to make their own hand model.
- Discuss principles of reduction of digital fracture and dislocation
- Nails
- Subungal haematoma/trephining
- Avulsed nails
- Discuss methods of removal of foreign bodies from:
- Ear/ eye/ nose/ skin/ subungual
- Discuss management of localised infections:
- Paronychia
- Assessment of minor abscesses, including when to refer
- Assessment, management of minor burns including when to refer
- Acute wound closure - basic principles & techniques:
- Staples/ tissue adhesive/ steristrips: demo
- Review scenarios
- Break out rooms/practice
Led by
TBA