Clinical Examination Skills Training for Community Pharmacists
Course description:
We rely on a small team and user feedback to keep Pharmacy Courses running. Notice something looks odd? Let us know!This training is available to all Community Pharmacists. You may be a locum, you might work for a multiple chain, or even be an independent community pharmacy owner.
The training could serve to revalidate your knowledge or gain confidence in clinical examination and the aligned topics, or maybe this is your first step before considering a prescribing qualification.
If you are already a prescriber, you may wish to extend your clinical examination skills.
The learning outcomes for this course are as follows:
Structured History Taking
- Describe the key factors to cover when taking a comprehensive clinical history and why.
- To know how to take a full structured medical history including a review of systems.
- Discuss the tools and techniques that can be used to guide and inform the history taking process.
- Use evidence-based practice and relevant guidance to support clinical reasoning and engage the person in shared decision making, such as NICE Clinical Knowledge Summaries.
- Know how to conduct basic observations and clinical examination/assessment skills.
- Interpret clinical assessment test results and findings to aid clinical diagnosis and decisions.
- Identify presenting red flags in the consultation to enable safe, effective, clinical transfer.
- Describe how to close the consultation including follow-up, safety netting, signposting, and referral when necessary.
- Know how to complete an accurate and concise record to collaborative and coordinated care and transfer of care.
Cardiology
- Define common cardiovascular conditions, including their presentations, causes and treatments: hypertension, arrythmia, heart failure, myocardial infarction, and stroke (ischaemic and haemorrhagic).
- In the context of the cardiovascular conditions discussed, list common side-effects of frequently prescribed cardiovascular medicines and their role in condition management.
- Discuss the eligibility for the community pharmacy hypertension case finding service.
- Describe the components of the cardiovascular system examination to detect symptoms associated with cardiovascular conditions.
- List appropriate history taking tools in the context of cardiovascular symptom presentations (e.g., SOCRATES).
- Perform and interpret common, basic cardiovascular assessments.
- Describe how to manage acute chest pain in the community setting.
Dermatology: Wound Care
- Describe the pathophysiology of the wound healing process.
- Recognise a range of different wound types, including those caused by chronic conditions and due to acute trauma.
- Describe how to examine wounds.
- Describe the basic observations that can be conducted to identify presence of infection
- Advise on how to prevent wounds becoming infected.
- Discuss the management of infected wounds.
- Recognise leg ulcers and discuss their causes, treatment, and prevention.
- Provide advice on the management of wounds, including moist wound healing
- Discuss the management of acute epistaxis.
- Describe how burns should be managed in the community setting.
- Discuss the management of animal bites, including when tetanus vaccination may be indicated.
Dermatology: Skin Conditions and Changes
- Describe how to take an appropriate history, in a person presenting with a skin condition.
- Discuss terminology used to describe the characteristic features of skin conditions.
- Identify the features and manage common skin conditions (rashes, blisters) that present to the community pharmacy.
- Identify potentially serious rashes.
Ear, Nose, and Throat
- Define common ear, nose, and throat conditions (including, but not limited to).
- Be able to spot potentially serious ENT conditions (red flags for ENT).
- Describe how to conduct a head and neck examination, including detection of lymphadenopathy.
- Describe how to use an otoscope.
- Describe the ear examination, inspect the external ear, ear canal and eardrum and interpretation of observations.
- Describe how to conduct a throat examination and be able to interpret observations.
- Describe how to conduct a nasal examination and be able to interpret observations.
- Advise on available treatments and self-care for conditions of the ear, nose, and throat.
Paediatrics
- Discuss the three components of the Paediatric Assessment Triangle.
- Apply the paediatric assessment triangle when assessing the sick child in the community pharmacy.
- Identify signs of serious illness in babies and children relating to appearance, work of breathing and circulation.
- Discuss appropriate referral pathways based on your assessment of the sick child.
- Discuss conditions and presenting symptoms that can be managed in the community pharmacy, including conditions of the gastrointestinal system, ear, eye and throat, skin, and respiratory system.
- Provide self-care advice for parents/carers looking after a sick child.
- Provide safety netting advice so parents/carers can identify signs of deterioration and escalate care accordingly.
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Related Topics: cardiovascular, Dermatology, Ear Nose and Throat, Paediatrics
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