Paediatric Presenting Conditions in Urgent and Primary Care
Provider: Bournemouth University
Course Leader: Alex Hull
This course is suitable for: This training is aimed at anyone with a non-medical prescribing qualification.
Course Overview:
This unit has been designed for registered healthcare professionals in primary care and urgent care services caring for both adults and children. It will help practitioners to develop their knowledge and skills in the assessment, planning and treatment of a range of minor ailments commonly presenting in children.
It will also enable students to evaluate the evidence base for practice, thereby enhancing their clinical reasoning skills. Students will complete a Clinical Practice Portfolio which will be assessed their own place of work by a practice assessor.
Learning Outcomes:
- Critically reflect on their ability to confidently approach a child and perform a thorough history taking with parental involvement as relevant.
- Implement and evaluate a full assessment of the presenting child, applying their skills and systematic understanding of the relevant pathophysiology and child development to synthesise a diagnosis.
- Critically appraise the evidence-base to create a treatment plan that is patient-focused, ensures personalised care and safety netting of the child
- Critically evaluate and reflect upon their personal abilities, knowledge, skills and levels of professional competence, recognising when to act independently, interdependently or when to be dependent on the interventions of other team members.
Content:
- Child Development- anatomy and physiology, functional, behavioural , motor & social Developmental milestones
- Approaches to a child
- History taking, physical assessment and triage of children
- Examination of a child with undifferentiated minor illnesses and injuries
- Recognition of red flags for referral
- Management of commonly presenting childhood ailments and injuries in primary and urgent care
- Recognising and responding to the sick child in the primary & urgent care environment.
- Legal and ethical issues in children’s nursing
- The use of Paediatric Early Warning Score systems
- Safety netting
Learning and teaching methods:
The unit will use a blended learning approach comprising a mixture of lectures, workshops, tutorials, on-line materials and work based learning. Students will be required to undertake group work and benefit from interprofessional peer learning.
