Clinical Assessment Skills for Enhanced Practice

Learning Outcomes

This module is part of the University’s PGCert Enhanced Clinical Practitioner. You will study alongside other students on this course. The module is also part of the Professional Development MA/MSc course - a flexible course that you help design to take your career to the next level.

Course Agenda

This module ensures that health care professionals, from a variety of different specialties, can understand and apply core focused clinical examination skills to assess their patients/clients’ needs in a variety of settings. These settings will be multi-professional and caring for patients across their life span (from birth to end of life care, including mental health settings). Students will gain the knowledge and skills to undertake enhanced clinical assessment Content will include:

• Consultation models, history taking, effective communication skills, developing therapeutic relationships, risk assessments.
• Focused clinical examination of body systems: respiratory, cardiovascular, nervous and musculoskeletal systems, abdominal assessment.
• Mental health considerations in clinical assessment, and considerations when encountering the paediatric patient.
• Documentation of history and examination, formulating differential diagnoses and evidenced-based management plans.
• Legal, professional and ethical considerations for enhanced clinical practice.