Medical assessments – what, why and best practice
Tuesday 4 March, 10:30 - 15:30
Venue: Zoom (online) – 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: £175
- Non-member Rate: £350*
*If you would like to become a member and access discounted rates for Hieda CPD and events, please click here.
Speaker:
Skyler Moulder
Skyler did her Adult Nursing BSc at Kings College London in 2011 and went straight into community nursing. After the birth of her first son she stumbled into community school nursing and never looked back. During her time as a community school nurse she covered primary and secondary schools all across Cambridgeshire. She completed training such as the CAMHS foundation module, Sexual Health and Contraception module and was trained in Safeguarding Children Level 3. She completed her PG Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in 2016 when she was pregnant with her second son, which she later topped up to a full MSc in 2023 when she was pregnant with her daughter! This also included qualifying as a Nurse Prescriber. Skyler co-lead the development of a 0-19 Duty Desk and the introduction of the Chathealth text service in Cambridgeshire Community Services. In 2019 she became a Team Manager for the CCS Healthy Child Programme – managing a team of Nursery Nurses, Health Visitors and School Nurses during the pandemic. In 2020 she was recruited to be the Lead Nurse at The Leys in Cambridge, to lead a team covering 24 hour care for around 575 pupils (over half of which are boarders). This is where she is now and where her passion for independent school nursing started.
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.
