Practitioners Associates Ltd.

Advancing health professional practice
3 Day Paediatric Minor Illness Workshop

This course is already proving to be very popular amongst primary care nurses of all types, especially Practice Nurses, Walk-In Centre Nurses, Health Visitors and nurses working in Out of Hours services. This can be delivered in-house for your added convenience.

Aims and outcomes

On completion of the workshop, participants will:

  • demonstrate the ability to integrate paediatric history-taking and assessment with diagnostic reasoning and management skills
  • recognise a variety of common paediatric presentations seen in primary care

 

Course programme

  • Review of age-appropriate history and physical examination techniques
  • Assessing the unwell child.
  • Assessment and management of:

  • The child presenting with fever
  • Ear Nose and Throat complaints
  • Skin related complaints
  • External eye complaints
  • Respiratory conditions
  • Gastrointestinal complaints