This course is designed to help experienced nurses and allied healthcare professionals take on the role of assessing and managing minor illness within their clinical setting. It provides you with the opportunity to develop knowledge and skills in relation to clinical consultations, history taking, physical examination and clinical decision making/diagnosis for patients presenting with undifferentiated/undiagnosed minor illness problems.

• Real case studies will be used in order to enhance your learning.
• You will be taught by Advanced Clinical Practitioners who are experts in this area of practice.
• You will have an opportunity to practice physical examinations and history taking in a skills lab and will be supported to demonstrate competency in applying these skills to your clinical practice.
• Taught lectures will focus on the evidence-base behind minor illness assessment and management.

 

Minor illness assessment and management skills are needed more and more by nurses and allied health professionals in a variety of areas including general practice, urgent care, emergency departments and pre-hospital care. The course aims to provide additional theoretical, clinically focused education around minor illness.