Competency information
Details
Discuss possible treatment plans for patients with maxillofacial trauma with senior clinical colleagues, recognising the impact on the patient, relatives and carers.
Considerations
- Potential for different treatment plans and surgical options.
- Clinical episodes in difficult situations.
- Enhance communication skills with senior surgical and scientist colleagues.
- Patient-centred communication skills.
- Referral pathways.
- How to support and advise patients, helping them to manage their fear and anxiety and referring to other support services as necessary.
- Clinical indications for and contraindications to each prosthetic option.
- Explore ethical issues of treating patients in vulnerable situations (not conscious, disabilities, or children).
- MHRA and national guidelines for treatment.
- Identify difficulties in relation to incomplete planning information and how to access further information, whether with surgical colleagues or electronic hospital systems (Patient Administration Systems; PAS).
- Relevant legal, professional and ethical requirements of treating patients requiring prescribed devices to treat maxillofacial trauma and craniofacial deformities.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 5 | Outcome Discuss and agree treatment plans for a range of patients referred to the unit with maxillofacial trauma or craniofacial deformities with clinical colleagues, the patient and, if appropriate, relatives or carers. |