This module will enable nurses, midwives and other registered healthcare practitioners to develop their knowledge and skills in clinical reasoning and physical examination techniques. Healthcare practitioners are provided with the opportunity to equip themselves to deliver a high standard of care in health assessment techniques, critically explore differential diagnosis and develop management plans that are evidence based and in partnership with their client group. The emphasis of the module is on integrating subjective and objective data into the clinical reasoning process and on synthesis of evidential practice in the context of undifferentiated urgent care. The educational delivery and ethos of this module emphasises and builds on autonomous self-directed learning for independent practice.

 

Aims

The aims of the module are to:

• prepare for a role where patient assessment across the age range is robustly and safely linked to clinical reasoning as a fundamental skill in healthcare provision;
• establish and develop an extensive knowledge base enabling the health and social care professional to negotiate safe, effective and personalised care management plans;
• enhance communication strategies between patients and health care professionals to provide a continuum of shared care;
• maximise inter-professional collaborative working for the provision of quality healthcare.

 

Course length: 10 Teaching Days

Assessment

Case Study (3000 words) and Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs).