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History Taking, Communication & Physical Examination Skills for Safe Triage

Name: History Taking, Communication & Physical Examination Skills for Safe Triage
Price: 1974.37 SGD

Training Provider: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE

Course Reference: TGS-2026061637

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About This Course

Healthcare provision, with increasing complexity and patient load, is progressively experiencing the benefits of inter-professional collaboration. Since the late 1990s, pharmacists have been involved in medication management and titration at anticoagulation clinics. Over the years, this practice evolved to various other pharmacist-managed clinics and services e.g. heart failure, renal, diabetes management. Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs) undergo the Masters of Nursing programme and were certified from the mid-2000s. Since then, APNs have been practicing in various settings and disciplines, being heavily involved in patient care, including medication management. To further improve care accessibility, and provide quality care without compromising patient safety, the Ministry of Health, Singapore is advocating selected APNs and pharmacists to become collaborative prescribing practitioners where their scope of practice will be expanded. This course will equip nurses and pharmacists with clinical skills to assess patients on a first responder generalist level, which would allow them to suggest diagnoses for patients that have yet to be consulted by a physician.

What You'll Learn

Pharmacists and nurses would be able to acquire history taking, physical examination and communication skills for safe triage, while formulating patient differential diagnoses on a first responder level in their healthcare institutions. They would be able to sieve out key findings from history, physical examination and communication, spot red flags, consider and propose suitable investigations, designate and suggest a possible referral for the patient to be referred to another practitioner or further management, if required. In addition, they would be able to work on synthesis and analysis of health information, management and therapeutic plans with sound clinical reasoning, which would develop their core competencies as a collaborative prescribing practitioner.

Entry Requirements

Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs):
must be working in an area with existing or potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum

Pharmacists (PHAs):
must be at least 3-year post-pharmacist registration with experience in direct patient care setting and working in multidisciplinary / team-based practice for at least 1 year,
must be working in an area with existing potential need for Collaborative Prescribing service, and
must have identified a clinical supervisor who, together with his/her team, will provide supervision to the candidate during the clinical practicum"
General Degree