Physical Assessment and Decision Making Skills

Overview

Key facts

• The aim of these modules in Physical Assessment and Decision Making Skills at Middlesex University are to enable you, as the experienced practitioner, to develop your physical assessment skills and apply this to your clinical context. 

• As the autonomous practitioner, you will be equipped with the advanced knowledge base, communication skills, and safe clinical examination skills to make confident autonomous, effective and evidence based patient care decisions. 
• You will also be able to undertake an autonomous assessment to start planning appropriate care or referral for your patients.

• Develop knowledge and skills in order to start to facilitate a safe holistic patient assessment
• Apply your knowledge of anatomy and physiology in conjunction with physical assessment to each body system
• Use more advanced communication techniques, evidence based knowledge and critical thinking in order to identify patient needs
• Identify presenting complaint and synthesise findings from physical  examination and assessment and then relates this to underlying pathophysiology
• Use history taking and clinical findings in order to aid with differential diagnosis
• Reflect on prior professional experience to aid with decision making
• Collaborate with colleagues in assessment and referral of patient.