Practitioners Associates Ltd.

Advancing health professional practice
5 Day Advanced Clinical Assessment Skills Workshop

This workshop is aimed at nurses and others wishing to develop history-taking and physical assessment skills. It offers the opportunity to develop basic top to toe physical examination skills in a comprehensive five-day workshop.

11 - 15 April 2011

  5 -   9 September 2011

Tutors: experienced nurse practitioner lecturers

Venue: Central London

Cost: (£442.55 plus £77.45 vat) £520
inclusive of study materials and refreshments (not lunch)

These courses are strictly limited in numbers and are always oversubscribed,
so book early to avoid disappointment.

Aims and outcomes

On completion of this workshop, participants will:

  • be confident to take a comprehensive health history from a patient
  • understand the techniques of physical assessment
  • correctly use physical examination techniques
  • perform a top to toe physical examination.

 

Course Programme
Day one:

  • history taking, review of systems
  • documentation
  • examination of skin, hair and nails
  • examination of face, neck, ear, nose and throat
  • demonstration and practice

 

Day two:

  • eye assessment
  • neurological assessment
  • demonstration and practice.

 

Day three:

  • respiratory assessment
  • abdominal assessment
  • cardiovascular and peripheral vascular assessment
  • demonstration and practice.

 

Day four:

  • musculoskeletal assessment
  • top to toe examination
  • demonstration and practice

 

Day five:

  • top to toe examinations
  • individual assessments
 
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