Competency information
Details
Advise patients with deformities requiring prosthetic rehabilitation.
Considerations
Patient Management and Support
- Patient evaluation and referrals
- Management of patient’s fears/anxiety and ability to empathise with patients in stressful situations, and the manifestations of anxiety/pain and the range of methods available in their management and control.
- Personal and professional interaction with terminally ill patients, including counselling skills.
- Theories and evidence base underpinning health-related behaviour.
- The effects of drugs, allergies and lifestyle factors on patient health and rehabilitation.
- Risks and benefits of care/management for the patient and their family/partners/carers.
- Common psychosocial disorders (abnormal psychology, anxiety, depression, psychoses, eating disorders, alcoholism and drug addiction).
- Recognition and appropriate care of patients with tissue conditions (psoriasis, eczema, contact dermatitis, dry mouth and sore mouth/ mouth burning syndromes).
- The effects of physical and mental conditions on the ability to manage devices.
- Process of grief and loss.
- Body image and effect of altered body image.
- Patient-centred counselling skills, including the importance of appropriate location and the amount of time devoted to the task.
- Role of support groups (physical and internet).
- Principles of patient education and supporting patients to be actively involved in their care.
- Quality of life outcome measurement and analysis.
- Care pathways and referral for social and psychological support.
- Quality of life outcomes.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 7 | Outcome Discuss treatment options, design, plan, manufacture, fit and evaluate a range of auricular (ear) prostheses for patients with congenital absence of pinna (external part of the ear) prosthesis with the patient, their carers or relatives, and colleagues as appropriate. |