Medical assessments – what, why and best practice

Venue: Zoom (online) – half day seminar

Audience

Healthcare professionals, school nurses, and healthcare assistants.

Course outline

This day seminar focuses on the varying forms of assessments required within the context of Independ School health care provision. It is aimed to those involved within Health centres in schools namely Nurses, Health care assistants, First aiders and matrons. The first part of the day will be presented by one of our Nurse consultants and will give an overview of considerations required around Health assessments. In the afternoon Dr Alex Maxwell , Head of School medicine, Meliora medical group will focus on providing a quality and needs focused New Pupil Health assessment.

Training topics will include:

• Review how information is gathered
• Understand why medical assessments in school are important
• Understand why they should be regular
• Establish how this service can be provided by your school
• Review history taking
• Develop Health Promotion awareness and delivery skills
• Look at vision and hearing testing in school
• Address the practical aspects of performing medicals in schools

Learning outcomes:

• Increase awareness on the role of independent school nurses in assessing all pupils holistic health care needs.
• Ensure delegates receive updated knowledge on The Healthy Child Programme and how this can be supported within Schools.
• Focus on hearing and vision screening and discuss how these can be implemented within school settings.
• Increase awareness on assessment and screening for childhood obesity.
• Focus on health promotion strategies within Health teams and the role of the school nurse within the PSHE programme.
• Increase knowledge on how to implement a quality new pupil health assessment.
• Explore the effectiveness and need for regular Asthma reviews and processes for ensuring these take place.

Cost 

• Member Rate: £135
• Non-member Rate: £270*

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Speaker:

Louise Howel, HIEDA Nurse Advisor

Louise Howel is a paediatric nurse with experience in children’s A & E, plastics and respiratory care. Health visitor for ten years.  Nine years experience in independent school nursing working in a mix of boarding and day school settings. Six years experience as Health centre manager most recently at Wycliffe College.

Dr Alex Maxwell, Head of School Medicine, Meliora Medical Group

Dr Alex Maxwell is a GP, School doctor, Sports doctor and Lifestyle Medic. He is the School doctor for Harrow School and Whitgift School and finds immense satisfaction in the varied challenges in these roles. His particular interests are sleep, nutrition, physical activity, mental wellbeing and the psychology of health behaviour change.

His aim as a school doctor is to provide the framework for the child to leave school with the tools to manage their mental and physical health for the rest of their lives.